Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales In Unearthed 2005 Interview Democracy Now! 2021-02-23 | As Democracy Now! marks 25 years on the air, we are revisiting some of the best and most impactful moments from the program’s history, including one of the last television interviews given by the visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. She spoke to Democracy Now! in November 2005, just three months before she died on February 24, 2006, at age 58. Butler was the first Black woman to win Hugo and Nebula awards for science-fiction writing and the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur “genius” fellowship. Her best-known books include the classics “Kindred,” as well as “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents” — two-thirds of a trilogy that was never finished. Her work inspired a new generation of Black science-fiction writers, and she has been called “the Mother of Afrofuturism.” Her 2005 interview with Democracy Now! took place shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and as President George W. Bush was overseeing the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When asked how she set out to become a science-fiction writer when there were so few examples of Black women working in the genre, Butler said she never doubted her abilities. “I assumed that I could do it,” she said. “I wasn’t being brave or even thoughtful. I wanted it. And I assumed I could have it.”#DemocracyNow Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: twitter.com/democracynow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow iTunes: itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554 Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
21-year-old journalist from Gaza reports on teenager burned alive Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytTributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah on Monday.We speak with Abubaker Abed, a 21-year-old journalist reporting live from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital who interviewed al-Dalou's family and friends.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
I Could Be the Next Shaban: 21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytTributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah on Monday. Photographs and footage of his final moments shocked millions around the world as Sha'ban laid in a hospital bed with an IV attached to his arm as the flames engulfed him. His mother and youngest brother have also reportedly succumbed to their burns, and his two sisters are on the verge of dying from their injuries. "Another family is going to be wiped off the civil record," says Abubaker Abed, a 21-year-old journalist reporting live from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital who interviewed al-Dalou's family and friends. Abed once dreamed of becoming a football commentator and is struggling to find food and supplies while Israel enacts a near-complete siege on Gaza. "We are young men that have nothing to do with this war. … But we are very daily being subjected to sheer violence and brutality," says Abed. "I could be the next Sha'ban. Anyone could be the next Sha'ban, because Israel is allowed to do anything."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Wont End Israels War While U.S. Gives Netanyahu Free Rein in Gaza Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIsrael announced Thursday it had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, releasing a video allegedly showing Sinwar's final moments before his death after Israeli forces in Rafah attacked the building he was in. After the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared "this is not the end of the war in Gaza." In Tel Aviv, Israeli families called for Netanyahu to refocus efforts on negotiating a deal to free the hostages. "They are torn because they are clever enough to understand that the killing of Sinwar does not mean the release of their loved ones," says Gideon Levy, award-winning Israeli journalist and author, who says Netanyahu will continue to act through sheer force as he sets his sights on Iran with the full support of the United States.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Tareq Baconi on Hamas Chief Sinwars Death & Why Killing Palestinian Leaders Wont Pacify Resistance Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytHamas has confirmed Israel killed the organization's leader, Yahya Sinwar, marking what could be a turning point in its yearlong war. Sinwar was apparently not killed as part of a targeted strike, but in the course of Israel's indiscriminate assault on the Gaza Strip. "It's not a war that's happening against Hamas … This is an Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people," says Palestinian analyst Tareq Baconi, author of _Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance_. "The removal of someone like Yahya Sinwar will not stop the Netanyahu government from carrying out its genocide in the Gaza Strip."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 18, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-18 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Itching for a War: Biden Deploys U.S. Troops to Israel as Netanyahu Threatens Escalation with Iran Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe look at Israel's threats to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran as fears grow of a broader regional war. We speak to analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the Biden administration sending U.S. troops and the top-of-the-line THAAD missile defense system to Israel. "There are no direct and clear U.S. interests at stake here," says Parsi. "Every time Israel escalates the war, Biden rushes in to protect Israel from the consequences of its own escalation," incentivizing Israel's escalation of tensions in the region and risking drawing the U.S. into war with Iran, he adds.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Ex-State Dept. Official: Israel Is Starving Gaza Now. We Cant Wait Another 30 Days to Take Action Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAid groups warn Israel is wiping northern Gaza off the map, and the Biden administration is threatening to cut military assistance to Israel — but not for at least 30 days. This comes as the U.S. has continued to arm Israel despite findings by its own experts at USAID and the State Department that Israel has routinely impeded delivery of food and medicine to Gaza. We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last October over the push to increase arms sales to Israel. He and Tariq Habash, who resigned in protest from the Education Department, have launched a lobbying organization and a political action committee called A New Policy to push for a new approach on Israel/Palestine amid what Paul calls a "deep-rooted and very entrenched" pro-Israel consensus in U.S. politics.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
The Gaza Playbook: Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe get an update on Israel's war on Lebanon from journalist Rania Abouzeid in Beirut. "We are seeing a definite escalation that started a month ago and doesn't show any sign of letting up," she observes, describing unrestrained attacks by Israel throughout the country, on all sectors of society, as Israel carries out its "Dahiya doctrine" in an attempt to foment division among the Lebanese population. "This is the Gaza playbook. … The sentiment here is that this is now a war on Lebanon," Abouzeid says.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 17, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-17 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
U.S. surgeon: Israel is routinely shooting children in the head in Gaza Democracy Now! 2024-10-16 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDr. Feroze Sidhwa’s op-ed in The New York Times features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest. The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Deportation First: Trump and Harris Compete for Latinx Votes While Pushing Anti-Immigrant Policies Democracy Now! 2024-10-16 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWith just 19 days until the presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ramping up efforts to appeal to a major voting bloc in battleground states: Latino voters. This comes as both major candidates are boasting hard-line immigration policies that impose harsh conditions on those entering the United States. "It will not be a solution for Vice President Harris to mimic Donald Trump's policies on immigration. In fact, she has to contrast," says Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, who says Latino voters are not moving to the right. "What Latinos are doing is declaring their political independence from partisan politics. … Latinos are looking to see who is going to deliver."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Uncommitted Co-Founder Abbas Alawieh on U.S. Election & Family in Lebanon Fleeing Israeli Bombs Democracy Now! 2024-10-16 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytLess than three weeks from the election, Kamala Harris is campaigning in Michigan. Will she lose votes over the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and expanding war on Lebanon? Meanwhile, Republican candidate Donald Trump has opened a new campaign office in the swing state. "It feels like Vice President Harris is not doing what it takes to be both humane and compassionate and sensitive to the political realities in Michigan that are necessary to engage with in order to beat Donald Trump," says Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of the "uncommitted" movement to change U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza. "What are we even talking about as Democrats if we speak so much to the value of human life, of the dignity of workers, when our party's official policy is to send more and more weapons to a fascist government that is on a killing spree?"Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse Democracy Now! 2024-10-16 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel's war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza's hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in _The New York Times_ that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest. The _Times_ called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. "I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs," says Sidhwa. "I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world." We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. "I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department. This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life," says Musleh. "My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 16, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-16 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
“Union”: New Film Looks at Worker Organizers Who Unionized First Amazon Warehouse Democracy Now! 2024-10-15 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe new documentary film Union, premiering this week, follows Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island as they formed the first-ever U.S. Amazon union in 2022. Co-directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, the film follows “the invisible working class” as they face an uphill battle against the notoriously anti-labor corporation, says Maing, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the film. We also speak with Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1’s president, Connor Spence, who shares his experience organizing the “most surveilled workforce anywhere” and explains what’s next as the union moves to organize Amazon on a national scale with the Teamsters.Transcript: democracynow.org/2024/10/15/amazon_union_documentaryDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
“Stop Profiting Off Genocide”: 200 Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Protest at NY Stock Exchange Democracy Now! 2024-10-15 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt“There is nothing antisemitic about fighting for people’s right to live,” says Jewish Voice for Peace organizer Elena Stein, who on Monday joined hundreds of protesters arrested to block entrances to the New York Stock Exchange. We discuss the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. “We are filled with horror beyond words and are attempting to embody just an ounce of that refusal,” Stein says of the moral urgency of protesting Israel’s actions in the Middle East, which she describes as a “war of extermination … done with U.S. cover.” She says JVP chose the stock exchange in order to draw attention to the role of U.S. financial and corporate interests in arming the Israeli military.Transcript: democracynow.org/2024/10/15/jvp_protest_new_york_stock_exchangeDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Ex-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100 U.S. Troops to Israel Democracy Now! 2024-10-15 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe Biden administration is sending an advanced anti-missile defense system and 100 U.S. troops to Israel in advance of expected retaliatory strikes against Iran. This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations. “The irony here is the Iranian missile attack is only going to happen if we help Israel strike Iran first,” says Win Without War’s Harrison Mann. With the deployment of troops to Israeli military installations, says Mann, “Israel now has its own sort of American human shields” and “a new mechanism to drag America into a war with Hezbollah and Iran.” Mann, who is Jewish, is a former U.S. Army major who resigned from his position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza, a decision he says was inspired by student antiwar protests on U.S. campuses.Transcript: democracynow.org/2024/10/15/us_troops_to_israelDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 15, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-15 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Transcript: democracynow.org/2024/10/15/headlinesSubscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Israel Attacks U.N. Peacekeeping Forces as U.S. Sends 100 Troops Anticipating Conflict with Iran Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIsrael is facing international condemnation after repeatedly attacking U.N. peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon. At least five members of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, have been injured in recent days. The U.N. also accused Israel of forcibly entering and destroying part of a UNIFIL base near the Israeli border after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to remove the peacekeeping forces from the region. "The message of Israel is we don't care about anything except Israel, and we will destroy the whole region if we need to," says Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut. This comes as the U.S. sends troops to Israel in anticipation of a conflict with Iran. "This is a terrible trajectory, and people will fight back against it."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Surrender or Starve: Israel Weighs Plan to Liquidate Northern Gaza Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with the reporter who revealed the Israeli plan to displace or kill the entire Palestinian population of north Gaza. Israeli Major General Giora Eiland has proposed ordering everyone in northern Gaza to evacuate within one week, after which Israel will conduct a total siege on the area and deem anyone who remains an eligible target for military attack. "Are we talking about Israel committing an extermination of hundreds of tens of thousands of people if they will choose to stay?" asks Meron Rapoport, editor and writer at _Local Call_ and columnist at _+972 Magazine_, who says many areas in Gaza have already been ordered to evacuate and are not receiving new aid deliveries. "We have the sense here that this plan is being actually implemented without being officially adopted."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Every Day Is a Breaking Point: North Gaza Desperate for Medicine, Fuel, Food, Water & Shelter Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe get another update on Israel's brutal siege and bombing in the north of the Gaza Strip, where hospitals are desperate for supplies. "Every day is a breaking point. Every day is a desperate rush for food, water, fuel and medicine and shelter," says Dr. Samer Attar, who has volunteered four times as a surgeon in north Gaza, most recently in June. "It never ends. Every day you wake up to more and more of it. That's just what makes it so horrifying."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Under Siege: Hospital Director in N. Gaza Refuses to Leave Patients Amid Israeli Evacuation Orders Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, as Israel continues to escalate attacks against northern Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering implementing a "surrender or starve" policy there. Palestinians in north Gaza report Israeli forces are conducting a strict and deadly siege while bombing more tent encampments, hospitals and schools this weekend. "They are putting the people and the hospitals under siege," says Salha, who notes Israel has ordered the hospital to evacuate. "We will not leave our patients behind us. We have to save them. We have to provide them the healthcare that they need."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 14, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
The Apprentice: New Film Opens Despite Trumps Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It Democracy Now! 2024-10-11 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with the director of _The Apprentice_, "the movie Trump doesn't want you to see," which opens today in theaters despite legal threats from the former president. The film looks at how Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. He went on to represent Trump as he built his New York real estate empire, and "was the person who sort of built Trump, as a person, as a brand, as an identity," says Abbasi.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago Democracy Now! 2024-10-11 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytA Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, has won the Nobel Peace Prize as fears grow of a new nuclear arms race. The head of the group has compared Gaza today to Japan 80 years ago when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We feature a _Democracy Now!_ interview with Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an anti-nuclear activist, and get response from Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, a U.S. nuclear disarmament activist who has spent decades working closely with the group.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Death Is Everywhere: Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza & Lebanon Condemns Israeli Attack on Hospitals Democracy Now! 2024-10-11 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs the Israeli military continues its assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, which have included the targeting of hospitals and ambulances and the killing of medical personnel, among other violations of international law, we speak to a doctor currently volunteering in Beirut. Dr. Bing Li is an emergency medicine physician and U.S. Army veteran who also volunteered at Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza earlier this year. Li recounts her experiences in Gaza, where "it feels like death is everywhere," and warns that Israel's latest forced evacuation, of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, is "essentially a death sentence" for patients, including children in the hospital's intensive care unit. Now in Lebanon, Li describes how providers are scrambling to increase healthcare capacity in anticipation of additional attacks.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 11, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-11 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Conspiracy theories multiply as the climate crisis worsens Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells says many people are choosing to "retreat into little cocoons of disinformation and paranoia" rather than reckon with the climate crisis.
Radio Conciencia: Florida Station Aims to Keep Immigrant Farmworkers Safe During Hurricanes Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe look at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in southwest Florida, which runs a radio station called Radio Conciencia that helped immigrant farmworkers prepare for Hurricane Milton and other storms. Established in 2003, the community radio station broadcasts in Spanish, Creole and other languages to share crucial information during natural disasters. "This is always scary for us whenever a hurricane hits in our area," says organizer Gerardo Reyes Chavez. "Living conditions especially are horrible in most agricultural communities."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Complete Neglect: Thousands Not Evacuated from Florida Jails & Prisons Ahead of Hurricane Milton Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs many as 28,000 people incarcerated in central and southern Florida jails and prisons were in mandatory evacuation zones for Hurricane Milton, but many officials reportedly refused to evacuate them. Some who were moved to more secure facilities ahead of the storm report having been left in lockdown with no power, updates or access to prison staff. "The fact that they are unable to evacuate people in mandatory evacuation zones goes to show the complete lack of prioritization of the lives of incarcerated people during hurricanes. And I think we can all agree, if we are prioritizing the safety of our communities, those communities must include the incarcerated people inside," says Jordan Martinez, an organizer with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the group's Hurricane and Disaster Response Team. They helped organize pressure campaigns for officials to evacuate incarcerated people during this storm as they have for many others.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Trump & GOP Push Misinformation on Hurricanes as Climate Crisis Intensifies Across Globe Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs we continue to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, we speak with Manuel Ivan Guerrero, a freshman at the University of Central Florida and an organizer with the Sunrise Movement, who says young people are extremely worried about the impact of the climate crisis on their communities. "This just has me more scared for what the future's going to look like in Florida," he says. "We're having these thousand-year storms every three, four years now."We also speak with David Wallace-Wells, a writer for The New York Times opinion section and a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, where he frequently writes about climate. He says the popularity of conspiracy theories during extreme weather events shows that many people are retreating "into little cocoons of disinformation and paranoia, and that scares me in some ways even more than the weather itself."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
3.5 Million Left Without Power After Florida Hit by Second Climate-Fueled Deadly Hurricane in Weeks Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytMore than 3 million people in Florida are without power after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota County on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, pummeling the area with torrential rains and winds of up to 120 miles an hour. Multiple deaths were confirmed after tornadoes tore through a senior center in Fort Pierce, but officials have just begun assessing the full damage from Milton, which arrived just two weeks after Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across the southeastern United States. Scientists say hurricanes are becoming more intense as a result of the climate crisis. "I have never experienced a storm quite like this," says Florida state Representative Michele Rayner, who evacuated her home in St. Petersburg. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 10, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-10 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Seán Kinane of WMNF reports live from downtown Gulfport, #Florida, as the state braces for #Milton. Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
“Catastrophic”: Report from West Florida on Hurricane Milton as Millions Evacuate Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe get a live report from downtown Gulfport, Florida, as the state braces for the impact of historic storm Milton, which is expected to make landfall at “catastrophic” strength. News director Seán Kinane of WMNF community radio describes heavy rain and significant debris remaining from Hurricane Helene, which battered the region less than two weeks ago to become the deadliest hurricane to strike the continental United States since Hurricane Katrina. Milton could surpass its damage, with a projected storm surge height of 15 feet when it comes ashore Wednesday night.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Motaz Azaiza, Acclaimed Journalist from Gaza, on Photographing War & Making “Art from the Pain” Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt“I never expected the world will know my name [because of] a genocide of my people,” says Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who gained international acclaim for his work during the first 108 days of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. Since evacuating in January, Azaiza has brought his advocacy for Palestinian rights around the world. Democracy Now! speaks to him from Washington, D.C., where he has just wrapped up a nationwide speaking tour titled “Gaza Through My Lens” in support of UNRWA USA. “Israel is targeting our children. Israel is targeting our babies, targeting our mothers, targeting our families. I just want to show the whole world so maybe I can bring help to my people through my photography,” Azaiza says.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytA new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at evidence of war crimes in Gaza in the form of social media posted by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed. “Israelis themselves were telling us precisely what they were doing and why they were doing it,” says Sanders about the evidence the team reviewed. “They don’t think it’s complicated. They don’t think it’s nuanced. Their rhetoric is often overtly genocidal.” ElSayed adds, “They’ve had all the courage to do that because they know that they are not even going to be condemned.”Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 9, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-09 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Palestine and Israels U.S.-backed system of apartheid Democracy Now! 2024-10-08 | Author Ta-Nehisi Coates says visiting Palestine was "revelatory" for him, exposing a system of Israeli apartheid that is strongly supported by the United States.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth Democracy Now! 2024-10-08 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs the war on Gaza enters its second year and Israel expands its attacks on Lebanon, we speak with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book The Message is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we're doing over there — and I emphasize 'what we're doing' because it's not possible without American support." Watch Part 1 of this interview: youtu.be/aWY6PV8WgzYDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
The Message: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine Democracy Now! 2024-10-08 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book The Message features three essays tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, book bans and academic freedom, and the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The Message is written as a letter to Coates's students at Howard University, where he is the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department. As part of the research for the book, Coates traveled to Senegal and visited the island of Gorée, often the last stop for captured Africans before they were shipped to the Americas as enslaved people. Coates also visited a schoolteacher in South Carolina who faced censorship for teaching Coates's previous book, an experience he says showed him the power of organizing. "That, too, is about the power of stories. That, too, is about the power of narratives, the questions we ask and the questions we don't," Coates says of the community's response.Watch Part 2 of this interview: youtu.be/VTs70cNcmVoDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 8, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-08 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Report from Beirut: Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon, Displacing 1.2 Million Democracy Now! 2024-10-07 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytToday marks both the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip and one week since Israel began its ground invasion of the neighboring country of Lebanon. Israel’s brutal military response to the Hamas-led October 7 incursion has shown no sign of slowing down as the United States, its primary supplier of military aid, continues to commit weapons, funding and rhetorical support to its deadly assault on Arab populations in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon. Over 1,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed and over a million displaced as they flee the encroaching violence. From Beirut, we speak to Rima Majed, a professor at the American University of Beirut, who highlights the disruption to daily life that Israeli warfare has created. “This is really a huge catastrophe, and it’s not a humanitarian one. It is a political catastrophe, and it’s a social catastrophe. And this would not have happened … if it wasn’t for the [international] backing and the arming of Israel.”Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha: One Year After Oct. 7, U.S. Still Arming Israels Slaughter in Gaza Democracy Now! 2024-10-07 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha, who fled Gaza in December after being detained by the Israeli military, is releasing his second book of poetry, Forest of Noise, next week. We speak to him one year into Israel's relentless slaughter in his home of the Gaza Strip as he notes, "It is really devastating to think that after a year, the world is still thinking about October 7 only, rather than about the years and decades before October 7 and the many and long, long days and weeks that followed October 7." Abu Toha also pays tribute to his former student, Hatem al-Zaaneen, who was recently killed while collecting firewood for his family, and shares the status of his own surviving family members in Gaza, who have been displaced once again as they seek safety from unrelenting Israeli bombardment.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
The Path Forward: Palestinian and Israeli Activists Working Toward Peace Featured in New Film Democracy Now! 2024-10-07 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe Path Forward is a new documentary that weaves together the voices of Palestinians and Israelis in their efforts for peace and reconciliation. The short film features the stories of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who have worked together before and after October 7 and Israel's relentless war on Gaza. We play excerpts from The Path Forward and speak to one of the activists featured, Aziz Abu Sarah, as well as to co-director Julie Cohen. "People who believe that war is the only way, what scares them the most is people who are modeling a different future," says Abu Sarah. "Our route to freedom is a joint route."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Israeli Peace Activist Lost His Parents on October 7. Hes Calling for an End to War & Occupation. Democracy Now! 2024-10-07 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytToday is the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel, when Hamas's military wing broke out of Israeli-constructed barrier fencing in the Gaza Strip. In the ensuing firefight, an estimated 1,200 people died. About 250 people were taken hostage and brought back to Gaza in a bid to pressure Israel to release some of the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners it holds in Israeli custody. While more than half of the hostages were exchanged this way through subsequent deals, Israel's primary response to the incursion was the launch of a full-scale assault on the already-besieged Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates place the number of Palestinians killed at over 41,000. More recent projections suggest that this number may have reached the hundreds of thousands.Meanwhile, in Israel, many families of remaining hostages continue to deride Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for refusing to accept a ceasefire deal that would return their family members, contending that Netanyahu is exploiting their loved ones and putting them in danger in order to manufacture a regional war. "Those who believe in war, they are naive, because they have been failing again and again and again," says Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon, who has been advocating for a ceasefire and an end to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories for the past year. His parents, Bilha and Yakovi, were among those killed on October 7.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 7, 2024 Democracy Now! 2024-10-07 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Separated: Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart as 1,300 Kids Still Alone Democracy Now! 2024-10-04 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary, _Separated_ , based on NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book of the same name. The film details the horrors of the Trump “zero tolerance” immigration policy, under which thousands of immigrant children were forcibly separated from their parents after they crossed the southern U.S. border, part of the administration’s broader crackdown on immigration. The cruel policy was enforced as early as July 2017, initially without public acknowledgment by Trump officials. It was ultimately rescinded amid widespread outrage, but it continues to impact the families who were targeted, and about 1,000 children remain effectively orphaned years later, with authorities and rights groups still unable to locate their parents. “It wouldn’t have happened were it not for decades of bipartisan deterrence-based immigration policy that continues to this day,” says Soboroff. Morris says “the most appalling part of the policy” was the lack of record-keeping. “OK, let’s separate the children, but let’s not actually keep a record of how to ever reunite them. Let’s separate them for good. Let’s just create orphans, abandon children,” he says. _Separated_ plays for a week at the IFC Center in New York, starting tonight, before it gets wider theatrical distribution and airs on MSNBC this December.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Lebanon War Giving More Space for Israel to Keep Up Slaughter in Gaza: Journalist Akram al-Satarri Democracy Now! 2024-10-04 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs Israel's military escalates its attacks on Lebanon, it has continued its relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where almost a year of war has now wiped 902 entire Palestinian families off the civil registry. There are another 1,300 families where only one family member has survived. The official death toll in Gaza has reached nearly 41,800, but that is believed to be a vast undercount. Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri says one year into Israel's war, the medical and humanitarian crisis remains unchanged. He describes some of the horrific injuries suffered by Palestinians, including many children, that have resulted in mass amputation of limbs, and says people are in a constant struggle for shelter and safety. "The suffering is continuous, and now the war in Lebanon is adding further burdens on the Palestinians and is giving more space for the Israeli forces to continue the bombardment in different areas," says al-Satarri.Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
What Is Israels Endgame in Lebanon? Airstrikes Intensify, Hospitals Overwhelmed, 1.2M Displaced Democracy Now! 2024-10-04 | Support our work: democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIsrael is further escalating its war on Lebanon, carrying out its heaviest airstrikes so far on Beirut overnight in the densely populated southern suburbs. Lebanon's health minister said Thursday at least 2,000 people have been killed since the start of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, including at least 127 children, most of them in the past two weeks. More than 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced. Meanwhile, Beirut hospitals are overwhelmed by a surge in casualties as attacks intensify, and the World Health Organization says Israel's attacks killed 28 health workers in just one 24-hour span and made it impossible for the WHO to deliver a large shipment of trauma and medical supplies to Beirut. This comes as the Israeli army appears to be preparing for a deeper ground incursion into southern Lebanon. As tensions continue to escalate in the region, we speak with Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, reporting for the Associated Press, who says Lebanon is getting used to "the new normal" of daily Israeli airstrikes on the capital, mass displacement and ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah forces in the south. "Things are moving at a very, very fast pace … and it is really unclear what the endgame for Israel is."Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
