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Democracy Now! Thursday, October 31, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-10-30 Wednesday

• Headlines for October 30, 2024
• Report from Pennsylvania: Marc Lamont Hill on Harris's Closing Speech & Dangers of a Trump Victory
• Imara Jones: Transphobia Is "Key Pillar" of Trump's Push for a "Patriarchal Fascist Regime"

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Democracy Now! 2024-10-29 Tuesday

• Headlines for October 29, 2024
• Puerto Rico Is an "Island of Garbage": Outrage Grows over Trump's Racist & Xenophobic NYC Rally
• Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump's Dehumanizing Rhetoric Is Adopting Franco's Language of Fascism and Violence
• Trump's Night at the Garden: Racist Campaign Rally Evokes Infamous 1939 Nazi Gathering in NYC
• Editorial Writers at L.A. Times & WaPo Resign After Billionaire Owners Block Kamala Harris Endorsements

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Democracy Now! 2024-10-28 Monday

• Headlines for October 28, 2024
• "This Carnage Needs to Stop": Israel Bans Aid Groups from Gaza, Kills Over 1,000 in North Gaza Siege
• "Save Us From Ourselves": 3,000+ Israelis Call For Int'l Help to Pressure Israel to Back Ceasefire
• "We Are in an Escalatory Cycle": Trita Parsi on Latest Israeli Attack on Iran, Risk of Wider War
• Biden Apologizes for Native American Boarding Schools That Aimed to Exterminate Indigenous Culture

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In Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, he reads several poems from his new book Forest of Noise, half of which he says was written before the start of Israel’s war on Gaza and the other half in the year since. He also discusses how friends and family of his have been killed by Israel, U.S. media portrayals of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, learning English and founding the Edward Said Library in Gaza, and using his writing to convey the Palestinian reality to the rest of the world. “Writing poetry does not come from a beautiful place,” he says. “The painful thing about poetry, and the poetry that I write, is that I’m not only writing about something that happened, which is the case for so many people, but I’m writing about something that unfortunately continues to happen.”

Democracy Now! 2024-10-25 Friday

• Headlines for October 25, 2024
• "Worse and Worse": Hospital Director in North Gaza Says Israeli Assault on Jabaliya Is Bloodiest Yet
• "Forest of Noise": Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on New Book, Relatives Killed in Gaza & More
• BRICS Breakthrough? Economists Richard Wolff & Patrick Bond on Growing Alliance, Challenge to U.S.

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Democracy Now! Thursday, October 24, 2024

Democracy Now! Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-10-22 Tuesday

• Headlines for October 22, 2024
• "The Gaza I Know Is Gone": Israel's Rampage Continues as Survivors Struggle for Food, Water, Safety
• Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma to Justify Its Genocide in Gaza
• Naomi Klein on 2024 Election, Trump/Musk Misinformation & the "Real Conspiracy" of Money & Power

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Democracy Now! 2024-10-21 Monday

• Headlines for October 21, 2024
• "Collateral Damage": Hundreds of Patients Trapped in North Gaza as Israel Intensifies Siege
• Report from Beirut: Israel Bombs Banks, Attacks UNIFIL in Expanding War of Aggression
• Will Netanyahu Incite a War with Iran? Leaked U.S. Docs Detail Israel's Attack Plans
• Facing Numerous Federal Probes, Elon Musk Spends Millions to Help Elect Trump & Gut Gov't Regulations

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Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 Friday

• Headlines for October 18, 2024
• Tareq Baconi on Death of Hamas Chief Sinwar & Why Killing Palestinian Leaders Won't Pacify Resistance
• Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Won't End Israel's War While U.S. Gives Netanyahu Free Rein in Gaza
• "I Could Be the Next Sha'ban": 21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive

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Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 Thursday

• Headlines for October 17, 2024
• "The Gaza Playbook": Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon
• Ex-State Dept. Official: Israel Is Starving Gaza Now. We Can't Wait Another 30 Days to Take Action
• "Itching for a War": Biden Deploys U.S. Troops to Israel as Netanyahu Threatens Escalation with Iran

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-10-15 Tuesday

• Headlines for October 15, 2024
• Ex-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100 U.S. Troops to Israel
• "Stop Profiting Off Genocide": 200 Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Protest at NY Stock Exchange
• "Union": New Film Looks at Worker Organizers Who Took On Jeff Bezos & Unionized First Amazon Warehouse

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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a referendum last year banning future oil extraction in a biodiverse section of the Amazon’s Yasuní National Park — a historic referendum result that will protect Indigenous Yasuní land from development. But the newly elected president, Daniel Noboa, has said Ecuador is at war with gang violence and that the country is “not in the same situation as two years ago.” Noboa has said oil from the Yasuní National Park could help fund that war against drug cartels. Environmental activists and Indigenous peoples say they’re concerned about his comments because their victory had been hailed as an example of how to use the democratic process to leave fossil fuels in the ground. “Amazonian women are at the frontlines of defense,” says Nemonte Nenquimo, an award-winning Waorani leader in the Ecuadorian Amazon who co-founded Amazon Frontlines and the Ceibo Alliance. Her recent piece for The Guardian is headlined “Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him — again.” Nemonte has just published her new memoir titled We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People. We also speak with her co-author and partner, Mitch Anderson, who is the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines and has long worked with Indigenous nations in the Amazon to defend their rights.

Democracy Now! Monday, October 14, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-10-11 Friday

• Headlines for October 11, 2024
• "Death Is Everywhere": Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza and Lebanon Condemns Israeli Attacks on Hospitals
• Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago
• "The Apprentice": New Film Opens Despite Trump's Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It

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Democracy Now! Thursday, October 10, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for October 09, 2024
• "The First Live-Streamed Genocide": Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Filmed by Israeli Troops Themselves
• Motaz Azaiza, Acclaimed Journalist from Gaza, on Photographing War & Making "Art from the Pain"
• "Catastrophic Category 5": Report from West Florida on Hurricane Milton as Millions Evacuate

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, October 8, 2024