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Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-08-27 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 27, 2024
• Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons
• What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-26 Monday

• Headlines for August 26, 2024
• "Colonial Process": How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict
• "How Many More?" Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols & Roger Fortson Cases
• Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC & Fight to Defeat Trump

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Democracy Now! Friday, August 23, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-08-22 Thursday

• Headlines for August 22, 2024
• Uncommitted Delegates Launch Sit-In After DNC Rejects Request for a Palestinian Speaker at Convention
• Tim Walz Accepts VP Nomination; A Look at His Record on George Floyd Murder, IVF, Guns and Gaza
• "Stop Sending Bombs": Rep. Ilhan Omar Visits Uncommitted Sit-In & Demands Israeli Arms Embargo
• Uncommitted Delegates Speak Out After Sleeping Outside DNC to Protest Silencing of Palestinian Voices
• "So Horrific": Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in Massacres Enabled by U.S. Bombs
• Climate Crisis & Election Roundtable: From Tim Walz's Record to Project 2025 to Israel

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-21 Wednesday

• Headlines for August 21, 2024
• As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken's Claims on Ceasefire Talks
• Trump & Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change
• At DNC, Michelle & Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump's "Same Old Con"
• The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a "Tipping Point for Our Democracy": Michele Goodwin
• What I Saw Was "Unfathomable": Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel
• Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-20 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 20, 2024
• Thousands March on DNC in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza
• First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to "Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party"
• Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him
• "Donald Trump Is a Scab": UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed
• Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change
• "Stop Arming Israel": Meet the DNC Delegates Who Unfurled Banner During Biden Speech

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-15 Thursday

• Headlines for August 15, 2024
• "Incomprehensible": U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000
• Colombia Faces "One of the Largest Humanitarian Crises on Earth" as Armed Groups Grow Stronger
• "End the Impunity": Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-12 Monday

• Headlines for August 12, 2024
• "Pieces of People": Israeli Strike on Gaza School Kills 100+, Bodies Destroyed Beyond Recognition
• Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Gov't
• 2024 Paris Olympics Highlights and Lowlights: From Hijab Bans to Social Cleansing to Boxing Gold
• Meet Fadi Deeb, Palestinian Paralympian from Gaza Who Lost 15 Relatives in Israeli Assault

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In Part 2 of our roundtable on the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Paralympian athlete Fadi Deeb discusses being the only Palestinian member of the Olympic delegation from Gaza and how an Israeli airstrike just killed his best friend in a school bombing. We also speak with CBC Sports contributor Shireen Ahmed about how Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won the Olympic gold medal in a major victory for the athlete, who competed while facing a torrent of abuse, including from high-profile transphobic observers such as Donald Trump and author J.K. Rowling, who falsely claimed Khelif was a trans athlete and should be banned from competing. At the first-ever Olympic breakdancing competition of the games, a member of the Olympic Refugee Team from Afghanistan known as “b-girl Talash” was disqualified when she wore a cape that said “Free Afghan Women.” “It’s the suppression of athlete activism and voices that is so troubling, particularly with women, who are too often excluded and silenced in sport,” notes Ahmed. We are also joined by Dave Zirin, sports writer for The Nation, who discusses the “social cleansing” of unhoused people ahead of the games in Paris, and activism leading up to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Democracy Now! 2024-08-09 Friday

• Headlines for August 09, 2024
• "New Dawn" in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests
• "Uncommitted" Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing VP for Arms Embargo on Israel
• NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-08 Thursday

• Headlines for August 08, 2024
• Tens of Thousands Rally Against Racism and Islamophobia in U.K. Following Days of Far-Right Rioting
• Israel Accused of Running "Torture Camps" as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
• Famine in Sudan: Activist Marine Alneel Says International Community Must Act

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-07 Wednesday

• Headlines for August 07, 2024
• America's Politics Are Changing: How Tim Walz VP Pick Highlights Support for His Progressive Stances
• "Kamala Harris Is Different": Uncommitted Movement Welcomes Tim Walz Pick, Pushes for Gaza Ceasefire
• Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination & Iran Retaliation
• Democracy Now! Mourns the Passing of Education Director Simin Farkhondeh at 61

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-06 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 06, 2024
• Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case
• Update from Dhaka: As Bangladesh Overturns Authoritarian Rule, Protesters Demand Democratic Gov't
• Cori Bush vs. AIPAC: Squad Member in Tough Primary Race as Pro-Israel Lobby Spends $8M to Defeat Her
• "Historic": Black Farmers Celebrate $2 Billion Payout for USDA Discrimination, Still Seek Debt Relief
• It's Tim Walz: Kamala Harris Picks Minnesota Governor as Her Running Mate

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-05 Monday

• Headlines for August 05, 2024
• Uprising in Bangladesh: Student Protests Force Prime Minister to Resign & Flee to India, 100s Killed
• As Tension over Venezuelan Election Escalates, the Left Debates Who Won Contested Vote
• Did Egypt Give Trump a $10 Million Bribe? The FBI Was Investigating, Then AG Barr Closed Case
• "I'm So Sad for Our Country": 9/11 Victim's Sister Responds to Def. Sec. Austin Revoking Plea Deal

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-02 Friday

• Headlines for August 02, 2024
• "Simply Lying": Marc Lamont Hill Slams Trump's NABJ Interview, Attacks on VP Harris's Racial Identity
• Picking Shapiro as VP Would Remind Voters Kamala Harris Is Liberal, Not Progressive: Marc Lamont Hill
• Prisoner Swap with Russia "Offers a Possible Pathway" to Peace in Ukraine, Says Katrina vanden Heuvel

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