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Democracy Now! 2022-12-16 Friday

• Headlines for December 16, 2022
• A Massacre in Peru: Death Toll Tops 17 as Protests Mount After Ouster & Jailing of President Castillo
• A 21st Century Resource War: Emira Woods on How Racism, Extraction & Militarism Are Devastating Africa
• Biden, Like Trump Before Him, Derails Effort to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-15 Thursday

• Headlines for December 15, 2022
• Women's Rights Activist on Protests Sweeping Iran, the Intensifying Gov't Crackdown & Executions
• Why Has Qatar Jailed a World Cup Whistleblower? The Brother of Abdullah Ibhais Speaks Out

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Wendell Griffen, a judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas, 5th Division, has become a prominent voice calling for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Griffen will retire this month after 24 years on the bench and a career that has included speaking out against the death penalty and the War in Iraq. Griffen is also the Pastor of New Millennium Church and author of “The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope.”

Democracy Now! 2022-12-14 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 14, 2022
• Indict Us Too: Daniel Ellsberg & Cryptome's John Young Demand U.S. Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
• Slash the Pentagon Budget in Half & Abolish ICBMs: Dan Ellsberg on How to Avoid Nuclear Armageddon
• Mumia Should Be Freed: A Sitting Trial Judge in Arkansas Appeals to Philly Judge to Drop Charges

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In Part 2 of our interview with Ryan Grim, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of The Intercept, we discuss his new piece, “The Railroad Fight Was the Product of Eight Years of Militant Rank-and-File Organizing,” and the pending vote on Senator Bernie Sanders’s proposed Yemen War Powers Resolution in Congress.

Democracy Now! 2022-12-13 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 13, 2022
• Biden Hosts Summit of 49 African Leaders to Counter China & Russia's Growing Power Across Continent
• AZ Governor Builds Illegal "Border Wall" of Shipping Containers & Razor Wire. Why Isn't Biden Stopping It?
• Kyrsten Sinema Leaves Democratic Party. Is It Enough to Save Unpopular Senator's Reelection Plans?

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Democracy Now! Monday, December 12, 2022

It has been nearly one year since Xiomara Castro was sworn in as Honduras’ new president. Her inauguration in January marked the end of a brutal 12-year period of rule by the U.S.-backed right-wing National Party, which first came to power after the 2009 U.S.-backed coup that overthrew Castro’s husband, the leftist President Manuel Zelaya. Xiomara Castro replaced Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández who was extradited to the United States in April to face drug trafficking and firearms charges. During the years after the coup violence soared in Honduras as did the number of refugees fleeing the country for safety. We get an update from Gerardo Torres Zelaya, the vice minister of foreign affairs of Honduras, who is in New York for an event with the Progressive International to discuss developing a New International Economic Order. “There is another way of understanding economics,” he says, noting that Castro’s changes work to end neoliberal policies of her predecessor show she “does not believe wealth only for a few people.”

Democracy Now! 2022-12-09 Friday

• Headlines for December 09, 2022
• "A Vindication for Agitation": Dave Zirin on How Brittney Griner's Supporters Secured Her Freedom
• "A Personified Weapon of Mass Destruction": Ex-Arms Trafficking Inspector on Freed Russian Viktor Bout
• Sarah Leah Whitson on Growing Saudi-China Ties & Holding MBS Responsible for Jamal Khashoggi Murder

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Peru’s President Pedro Castillo is ousted and jailed after attempting to dissolve Congress; Boris Kagarlitsky in Moscow on how Russians are weary of Putin’s war in Ukraine; The Supreme Court considers “independent state legislature theory” in a North Carolina redistricting case with far-reaching implications for voting rights.

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-07 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 07, 2022
• "The People Have Spoken": Sen. Warnock Wins in Georgia in Victory Over GOP Voter Suppression Efforts
• Futuro Media Probes Deadly U.S. Border Policy & NY Drug Trafficking Trial of Mexico's Former Top Cop

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Democracy Now! co-host Juan González recently spoke at the Columbia School of Journalism in the first of three “farewell” speeches in New York before he moves to Chicago. Juan will also be speaking in New York on Friday, December 9, at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and Monday, December 12, at the CUNY Grad Center. In his speech at the Columbia School of Journalism, Juan talked about his atypical journalism career and his years as a student activist and organizer with the Young Lords. Juan said, “I have been grappling now for more than 50 years — initially as an activist, then for decades as a journalist and a student of history — with the burning issue of how oppressed and marginalized people can best create and disseminate a narrative that truly reflects their lives, not just accepting the simple-minded, stereotypical and often denigrating narratives of them fashioned by those with greater power and wealth.”

Democracy Now! 2022-12-06 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 06, 2022
• Jeffrey Sachs: A Negotiated End to Fighting in Ukraine Is the Only Real Way to End the Bloodshed
• Pegasus Spyware Maker NSO Group Sued in U.S. Court by Central American Journalists
• Publishing Is Not a Crime: NYT, The Guardian & More Urge Biden Admin to Drop Charges Against Assange
• Warnock vs. Walker, Round 2: Georgia Breaks Voting Records in Senate Runoff Election

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A group of current and former Yale students has sued the Ivy League school for discriminating against students with mental health challenges in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act; We look at a fight in Chinatown, New York, against the city’s plans to build the tallest jail in the world.

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A web-only discussion with Angela Davis, the world-renowned abolitionist, author and activist. Davis reflects on her remarkable life and struggles ahead. Davis recently released a new edition of her 1974 autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison nearly 50 years ago. The book details Davis’s early life, from growing up in a section of Birmingham, Alabama, known as Dynamite Hill due to the frequency of bombings by the Ku Klux Klan, to her work with the Black Panther Party and the U.S. Communist Party. It also follows her 16-month incarceration, during which she faced the death penalty and was eventually acquitted on all charges, which influenced Davis’s focus thereafter on transforming the criminal justice system and building a movement for abolition.

A new Al Jazeera documentary investigates “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh” six months after the Palestinian American journalist was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank; Civil rights activist Angela Davis on the controversy that erupted when she was deemed “too radical” to speak in Rockland County, New York.

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-01 Thursday

• Headlines for December 01, 2022
• Oath Keepers Founder Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy for Plotting to Violently Overthrow U.S. Gov't
• David Dayen on Rail Contract Bill, Respect for Marriage Act, Debt Ceiling & What a GOP Congress Means
• Rights Advocates to NYC Mayor Adams: You Can't Arrest Your Way Out of Housing & Mental Health Crisis

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Democracy Now! 2022-11-30 Wednesday

• Headlines for November 30, 2022
• "Enough Is Enough": Rail Workers Decry Biden's Push to Impose Strike-Breaking Labor Deal
• Striking Univ. of California Grad Students Speak Out on Nation's Largest-Ever Higher Education Strike
• Meet Puerto Rican Journalist Bianca Graulau, Featured in Viral Bad Bunny Video on Injustices in PR

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Democracy Now! 2022-11-29 Tuesday

• Headlines for November 29, 2022
• Abdullah Al-Arian on First Middle East World Cup & Western Media's "Orientalist Outlook"
• "Sportswashing & Greenwashing": Ex-Soccer Player Jules Boykoff on Qatar Hosting World Cup
• NYC DA Asks Judge to Drop Murder Charges Against Domestic Abuse Survivor Tracy McCarter

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In labor news, President Biden has sided with big business and has urged Congress to intervene to block freight rail workers from going on strike, saying it could devastate the economy. On Monday, Biden asked lawmakers to quickly pass legislation to impose a labor deal that has been opposed by the majority of freight rail workers. Ron Kaminkow, a locomotive engineer and organizer for Railroad Workers United, spoke to Democracy Now! last night. “We could have seen Biden actually opt for telling Congress he would like to see Congress pass legislation that mediates an end to the conflict under which more favorable terms to the workers, which is to say a handful of sick days,” Kaminkow said. “And that’s what this has come down to.”