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Democracy Now! 2021-01-25 M...

01.25.2021

Former Senate aide Adam Jentleson on how the upper chamber undermines democracy; Rev. Dr. William Barber says Biden must focus on the poor; Workers at Hunts Point Market in New York agree to a new contract after a strike that ...

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01.25.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-25 Monday Former Senate aide Adam Jentleson on how the upper chamber undermines democracy; Rev. Dr. William Barber says Biden must focus on the poor; Workers at Hunts Point Market in New York agree to a new contract after a strike that ...
01.22.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-22 Friday Biden unveils a sweeping COVID strategy after Trump left him with no plan for a national vaccine rollout; Three tribal leaders on the devastating impact of the pandemic on Indigenous communities; Calls grow for Biden to cancel the Dakota Access ...
01.21.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-21 Thursday We get reaction to Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th president of the United States from scholar Cornel West and pioneering journalist Maria Hinojosa; We hear the inaugural poem by 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
01.20.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-20 Wednesday As Biden and Harris take office, author and academic Michael Eric Dyson and Waleed Shahid of Justice Democrats talk about the role of social movements in the next administration; CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou on seeking a pardon from Trump.
01.19.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-19 Tuesday Rashida Tlaib on Trump's impeachment and what needs to be on Biden's to-do list; The presence of police officers among the Capitol rioters raises alarm over right-wing radicalization in law enforcement; The ACLU warns against new domestic terrorism laws.
01.18.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-18 Monday MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
01.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-15 Friday Authorities across the U.S. brace for more violence by armed right-wing extremists in the lead-up to Joe Biden's inauguration; As the U.S. COVID death toll nears 400,000, we speak with Dr. Peter Salk, whose father developed the first polio vaccine.
01.14.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-14 Thursday We speak to lawyer John Bonifaz and professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about Donald Trump's historic second impeachment; More than 8,000 people in the U.S. die from COVID-19 over the past two days as complaints grow over slow vaccine distribution.
01.13.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-13 Wednesday As President Trump continues to deny any responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol, we speak with Timothy Snyder, a historian of fascism, about what comes next; The coronavirus hits Latinx and Indigenous communities in Los Angeles the hardest.
01.12.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-12 Tuesday Filipino scholar Walden Bello on the push to impeach Trump and the violent right-wing groups he has inspired; A federal judge grants a stay of execution for Lisa Montgomery, who was set to be the first woman executed by the ...
01.11.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-11 Monday Nancy Pelosi threatens to begin impeachment hearings for Trump if Vice President Mike Pence doesn't support removing him from office; We debate Big Tech's response to the Capitol insurrection with academic Ramesh Srinivasan and author Chris Hedges.
01.08.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-08 Friday Rep. Ro Khanna on new efforts to remove President Trump from office; Looking at Joe Biden's Justice Department picks with The Nation's Elie Mystal; We speak to Rebekah Jones, a data scientist who blew the whistle on Florida's misleading COVID-19 ...
01.07.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-07 Thursday A violent mob incited by President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, some carrying Confederate flags like the one torn down by Bree Newsome Bass. We talk to Bass; Manisha Sinha, historian of slavery and Reconstruction; and journalist Allan Nairn.
01.06.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-06 Wednesday Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff appear to have won the Senate runoff elections in Georgia; Washington braces for possibly violent protests by Trump supporters; The white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, won't be charged.
01.05.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-05 Tuesday Republicans in Georgia denounce President Trump's efforts to overturn the state's election results; Polls open in Georgia for two key Senate runoff races; Israel vaccinates a record number of people, but not Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
01.04.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-04 Monday A British judge blocks the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S.; President Trump pressures Georgia's Republican secretary of state to "find" enough votes to overturn Biden's victory in the 2020 election in an hour-long phone call.
01.01.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-01-01 Friday A growing movement calls for a people's vaccine and suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access in poorer countries. Plus, Dr. Paul Farmer talks about the pandemic and his new book on Ebola, "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds."
12.31.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-31 Thursday A look back at 2020 with Angela Davis, Cornel West, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the historic uprising against racism and police violence. Plus we speak to Bree Newsome & Eddie Glaude about the 2020 election.
12.30.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-30 Wednesday Black Dr. Susan Moore dies from COVID-19 after posting a video describing racist treatment by medical staff; Two leading African American doctors discuss racial healthcare disparities; The Kansas City Star apologizes for its racist history.
12.29.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-29 Tuesday As Trump pardons four Blackwater mercenaries, we re-air an interview with an Iraqi father whose 9-year-old son was killed in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre and speak with lawyer Paul Dickinson; Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the global economic crisis.
12.28.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-28 Monday President Trump unexpectedly signs a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package; Dozens of immigrant women detained by ICE in Georgia join a class-action lawsuit over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual gynecological procedures.
12.25.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-25 Friday An hour with the the late British writer John le Carré talking about the Iraq War, corporate power and his 2003 essay "The United States of America Has Gone Mad."
12.24.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-24 Thursday Today, we re-air an exclusive Democracy Now! documentary from Western Sahara, which has been under Moroccan occupation since 1976. "Four Days in Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony."
12.23.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-23 Wednesday We speak to an emergency room doctor in Arizona who has gone from treating soldiers in Iraq to fighting the pandemic in the U.S.; Biden picks Miguel Cardona for education secretary; Alex Padilla will be the first Latinx senator to ...
12.22.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-22 Tuesday Congress approves a $900 billion stimulus package, but many say it does not provide enough relief; We speak to a doctor who was among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; Trump has raised over $250 million since Election Day.
12.21.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-21 Monday Senator Bernie Sanders on why working families devastated by the pandemic need far more help; President-elect Joe Biden reveals more members of his climate team, and former head of the EPA's environmental justice program Mustafa Ali responds.
12.18.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-18 Friday Millions face eviction as a federal moratorium is set to end; Biden picks Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary; Activists protest against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota; An Intercept report reveals the CIA funded death squads in Afghanistan.
12.17.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-17 Thursday It may take years to fully vaccinate people in poor countries as wealthy countries hoard COVID-19 vaccines; U.S. COVID-19 deaths skyrocket; Congress is set to agree on a stimulus package with more corporate giveaways than aid for working people.
12.16.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-16 Wednesday We speak to Nina Turner, one of Bernie Sanders's top allies, who has launched her campaign for Congress in Ohio to push a progressive agenda; Jailed immigrants on hunger strike face solitary confinement and demand Biden issue a deportation moratorium.
12.15.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-15 Tuesday Attorney General William Barr resigns; As the Electoral College formally certifies Joe Biden's victory, we look at the growing push to elect the president by popular vote; COVID-19 cases are spiking again inside California's prisons.
12.14.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-14 Monday Greta Thunberg on why bold action is needed to prevent a climate catastrophe five years after the Paris accord; Who should be first to get the COVID-19 vaccine?; The U.S. Army fires or suspends 14 people at Fort Hood after ...
12.11.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-11 Friday Morocco and Israel agree to normalize relations, and the U.S. becomes the first country in the world to recognize Morocco's sovereignty over occupied Western Sahara; Joe Biden picks retired General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon.
12.10.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-10 Thursday The World Food Programme accepts the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize as world hunger surges; Joe Biden's pick of Tom Vilsack to head the USDA raises alarm among progressives; Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's military offensive displaces tens of thousands.
12.09.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-09 Wednesday A growing movement calls for a people's vaccine and suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access in poorer countries; The federal execution of Brandon Bernard is set for Dec. 10 over opposition from five jurors and a prosecutor in ...
12.08.2020 2020 Ballot Initiative Wins: Abortion Rights, Lawyers for People Facing Eviction & Payday Loan Limits When it comes to ballot measures that passed in the 2020 election, “economic justice stuck out as an area where the wins were many,” says ACLU Political Director, Ronald Newman.
12.08.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-08 Tuesday A Black mother attacked with her family by Philadelphia police speaks out; Why California's Proposition 22 is a major loss for worker rights and win for Uber and Lyft; The House votes to decriminalize marijuana, echoing ballot measures passed nationwide.
12.07.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-07 Monday As President Trump pressures Georgia's governor to overturn the presidential election results, we look at the state's two Senate runoff elections that will decide who controls the upper chamber in the coming years.
12.04.2020 Bryan Stevenson Wins "Alternative Nobel": We Must Overturn This Horrific Era of Mass Incarceration Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on Thursday.
12.04.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-04 Friday As COVID deaths and hospitalizations reach record highs, we speak to one of the top infectious disease doctors, Dr. Paul Farmer, about the pandemic and his new book, "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds," on his experience battling Ebola in West Africa.
12.03.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-03 Thursday Nigeria admits its soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters in October; In India, an estimated 250 million people join a general strike as farmers protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to deregulate agricultural markets.
12.02.2020 New Malcolm X Biography Offers Insight into His Split with Nation of Islam & Assassination In Part 2 of our extended interview with Tamara Payne, co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” with her late father Les Payne, she shares details the award-winning book reveals.
12.02.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-02 Wednesday We speak with Briahna Joy Gray about Biden's proposed economic advisers and look at the role of investment giant BlackRock in his incoming administration; a major biography of Malcolm X wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
12.01.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-12-01 Tuesday As the CDC considers how to distribute coronavirus vaccines, we speak to two African American doctors who have spent years fighting racial disparities in healthcare; Marking World AIDS Day with professor Steven Thrasher.
11.30.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-30 Monday Iran accuses Israel of assassinating its top nuclear scientist; Sister Helen Prejean on the DOJ’s expansion of the ways it can execute; Trump plans to carry out a slew of executions in his lame duck session, including the first woman ...
11.27.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-27 Friday Today, we re-air an exclusive Democracy Now! documentary from Western Sahara, which has been under Moroccan occupation since 1976. "Four Days in Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony."
11.26.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-26 Thursday Holiday special: Jodi Archambault & Allie Young on the Native vote and how COVID is devastating indigenous communities; Juan González on how the media missed the real story about the Latinx vote; Bree Newsome & Eddie Glaude on the 2020 ...
11.25.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-25 Wednesday President-elect Joe Biden introduces key members of his national security team with a vow to reembrace the world and reject Trump's "America First" foreign policy; Indigenous resistance continues against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota.
11.24.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-24 Tuesday Food pantries across the U.S. see long lines as millions battle hunger; Managers at a Tyson slaughterhouse wagered on how many workers would catch COVID-19; A record number of transgender and gender nonconforming people have been violently killed in 2020.
11.23.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-23 Monday As Trump continues his unprecedented attempt to stay in the White House, we look at how voters are fighting back; Pfizer and Moderna stand to make huge profits from COVID-19 vaccines, which rely heavily on discoveries from publicly funded research.
11.20.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-11-20 Friday Pressure grows on Joe Biden to take immediate climate action once in office and to approve the Green New Deal, as well as to cancel federal student loan debt; The head of the leading Egyptian human rights group is arrested ...

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