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Remembering Cora Weiss, Longtime Peace & Anti-Nuclear Activist
The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
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Democracy Now! 2025-12-16 Tuesday
Democracy Now! 2025-12-16 Tuesday
- Headlines for December 16, 2025
- "We're Angry": Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
- Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in "New Gilded Age"
- From "Alligator Alcatraz" to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
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Jeanne Theoharis on the Montgomery Bus Boycott & "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Part 2)
Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.
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Kitchen Nightmare: How Plastic in Everyday Objects Leaches into Food, Hurting Human Health, Environment
Watch Part 2 of our interview with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. She describes how she tried to remove plastic from her kitchen, why she dedicated her book to members of the environmental justice movement in places like Appalachia and Louisiana, and much more. Enck is the president of Beyond Plastics.
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