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Democracy Now! Thursday, February 2, 2023

Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 1, 2023

• Headlines for January 31, 2023
• Asylum Seekers Refuse to Leave Manhattan Hotel, Citing Inhumane Conditions at Brooklyn Shelter
• "Elite" Police Units Face More Scrutiny as Memphis SCORPION Unit Disbanded over Tyre Nichols Death
• Rikers Jail Whistleblower Decries Collapse of LGBTQ+ Unit Meant to Protect Trans Detainees
• Marxist Economist Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful

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• Headlines for January 30, 2023
• "An Intolerable Situation": Rashid Khalidi & Orly Noy on Israeli Colonialism & Escalating Violence
• Tyre Nichols: Video of Fatal Police Beating in Memphis Spurs New Demands for Police Accountability
• "Every Community Has a Tyre Nichols": New Jersey Activists Demand Justice for Carl Dorsey

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• Headlines for January 27, 2023
• Memphis BLM Activist: Tyre Nichols' Killing Is Part of Police Brutality Crisis Facing Black Residents
• Tyre Nichols' Parents Remember Son as "Beautiful Soul" & Describe Video of Beating by Memphis Police

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Democracy Now! Thursday, January 26, 2023

Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 25, 2023

• Headlines for January 24, 2023
• As Asian Americans Reel After Mass Shootings in California, Will Congress Take Any Action on Guns?
• Jeremy Scahill: Biden & Trump Scandals Point to Deeper Problems with Overclassification of Gov't Docs

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Democracy Now! Monday, January 23, 2023

• Headlines for January 20, 2023
• U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn on Freeing Julian Assange, the Working Class, Brazil, Peru & Ending Ukraine War
• Atlanta Police Kill Forest Defender at Protest Encampment Near Proposed "Cop City" Training Center
• Keenan Anderson: BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Demands Justice for Cousin's Death After LAPD Tasing

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• Headlines for January 19, 2023
• Defeated GOP Candidate in New Mexico Arrested over Shootings at Homes of 4 Democratic Officials
• Azerbaijan Blockades Nagorno-Karabakh Region, Angering Armenia & Raising Specter of a New War
• "Out of the Lab and Into the Streets": Meet Earth Scientist Fired After Engaging in Climate Protests

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• Headlines for January 18, 2023
• Roe v. Wade at 50 (Almost): What Abortion Access Looks Like After Constitutional Right Overturned
• End Medical Debt: Fight Grows to Stop Hospitals from Suing Patients, Garnishing Wages, Ruining Credit
• Elite Capture: Philosopher Olúfémi O. Táíwò on How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Martin Luther King Day special featuring excerpts of two historic MLK speeches: “Beyond Vietnam” and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”

• Headlines for January 13, 2023
• "Argentina, 1985": Oscar-Shortlisted Film Depicts Historic War Crimes Trial of U.S.-Backed Generals
• Legendary Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo on "Argentina, 1985" and Why Democracy Is at Risk Today
• The Crisis of Missing Migrants: Tens of Thousands of People Have Disappeared on Their Way to Europe

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• Headlines for January 12, 2023
• "Famine Is Coming": NGO Leader Jan Egeland in Kabul Demands Taliban Lift Ban on Women Aid Workers
• Night Raids: Victims of CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Known as "Zero Units" Demand Accountability
• As Historic Storms & Flooding Kill 19 in California, Why Is Media Ignoring Role of Climate Change?

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 11, 2023

• Headlines for January 10, 2023
• At Summit in Mexico, AMLO Urges Biden to End U.S. "Disdain" for Latin America
• Rosewood Massacre: Families Mark 100 Years Since White Mob Razed Black Town & Killed Black Residents
• "Never Forget Our People Were Always Free": Civil Rights Leader Ben Jealous on His New Memoir

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