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KPFA - Democracy Now! episodes

January 22, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 22, 2025
On today’s show:
“Have Mercy”: Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service
“Profoundly Dangerous”: Public Citizen Sues Trump over Legality of Elon Musk-Led DOGE
Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk and Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory
Tech’s Rightward Drift: Researcher Becca Lewis on How Trump Captured Silicon Valley
Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks After Biden’s Last-Minute Pardon Saved Him from Deportation

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1 hr
January 21, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 21, 2025
On today’s show:
Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ January 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute
Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal, While Distorting the Deadly History of the Waterway
“A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power”: Legality of Trump’s Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned
“People Are Afraid”: Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump
Chase Strangio: Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People, While Claiming to Defend Women
Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: “A Day of Victory for Indigenous People”

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1 hr
January 20, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 20, 2025
On today’s show:
Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation
Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks
People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second Inauguration
“Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: In His Final Speech, MLK Spoke of Reaching “Promised Land” of Equality

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1 hr
January 17, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 17, 2025
On today’s show:
Gideon Levy and Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later
Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires and Corporations
Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”

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1 hr
January 16, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 16, 2025
On today’s show:
Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks
Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill: Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role, and Palestine’s Future
Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial

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18 min
January 15, 2025 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Pamela Bondi as US Attorney General – January 15, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
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1 hr
January 14, 2025 Special Broadcast: Senate Confirmation (Armed Service Committee) Hearing of Peter Hegseth – January 14, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
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50 min
January 13, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 13, 2025
On today’s show:
Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena, and Octavia Butler’s Warning
“Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies and Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos
“Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises
“Seeking Justice”: How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes

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1 hr
January 10, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 10, 2025
On today’s show:
Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires; His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape
“Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
Camp David’s Failures: Why Jimmy Carter’s Opposition to Israeli Apartheid Wasn’t Enough to Secure Peace
Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded and Armed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor
Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported

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10 min
January 09, 2025Democracy Now 6am – January 9, 2025
On today’s show:
Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA,” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. and Paves Way for More Hate Speech
L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse”

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1 hr