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Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Donald Trump made his “closing argument” at a Madison Square Garden rally in New York, the same city where he was recently convicted of 34 felonies. The spectacle was an orchestrated, six-hour orgy of hate. Speaker after speaker worked the crowd by attacking immigrants, Jews, Black people, women and more, directing special invective against the woman of color challenging Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris. Celebrity white supremacist Tucker Carlson, for example, warned Harris could be “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low-IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.” The evening’s opening act, a so-called comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe, set the tone with a vile, racist routine. “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” Hinchcliffe’s crude shtick was vetted by the Trump campaign, since they reportedly deleted his intended use of the “C” word to describe Kamala Harris. There are more than 8 million Puerto Ricans in the United States, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Due to Puerto Rico’s colonial status, though, the 3 million residents of Puerto Rico can’t vote in the U.S. presidential election. But the more than five million who do live in the continental U.S. can. Of those, almost half a million live in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, with an additional half million spread across the swing states of Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada. Puerto Rican voters are angry. As proud Puerto Rican Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s popular talk show The View, said the day after Trump’s rally, “We know how to take the trash out, Donald Trump – trash that has been collecting since 2016. And that’s you, Donald Trump. … My fellow Puerto Ricans: trash collection day is November 5th, 2024.” Trump, predictably, referred to his rally as a “lovefest.” He notoriously refuses to apologize for anything, and his invitations to the racist comedian or to any of the other inflammatory speakers at his rally are no exception. If his naked racism weren’t enough, Trump has repeatedly said he wants to be a dictator. He admires dictators, he associates with dictators, he praises dictators. “This is the language of fascism and violence,” NYU History Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat said on the Democracy Now! news hour. She wrote the book Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, and sees striking parallels between historical fascism and Trump’s MAGA movement. Struck by the vulgarity from the podium throughout Trump’s MSG rally, Ben-Ghiat said: “We think about authoritarianism as imposing controls on people and silencing people, and it certainly does that. But it also is designed, from fascism forward, to make people become their worst selves, to give them permission to be as violent and unrestrained as possible…this kind of profanity, you know, at women, the misogyny, anti-Black statements, calling Latinos garbage, it’s not only a tradition of dehumanization that starts with fascism and goes through authoritarian movements up to our day, it’s also designed to make people feel, the foot soldiers of MAGA, that there are no restraints, there are no controls, and everything will be accepted as long as it is in the service of targeting the enemy within.” Ben-Ghiat was referring to Trump’s pledge to target “the enemy within,” as he has said repeatedly, like this, on Fox News. “The bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. … It should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by the National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military.” Several top military appointees from the former Trump administration have warned against a second Trump presidency. Ben-Ghiat observed, “Retired military officers, especially generals, don’t speak out unless they feel there’s a real need. The fact we’re seeing General Kelly, General Milley, former Defense Secretary Esper speak out and use the ‘F’ word, calling Trump a fascist, means that they are highly concerned.” Last Sunday was not the first time fascists gathered at Madison Square Garden. In 1939, the German American Bund brought 20,000 people there to celebrate the rise of Nazi Germany. Seven years ago, filmmaker Marshall Curry assembled archival footage into the short documentary, A Night at the Garden, which received an Oscar nomination. “When I first saw that footage, I was completely shocked to see the American flag and George Washington and hear people singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and then offering a stiff-armed salute and cheering white supremacy,” Curry explained on Democracy Now! The U.S. government has far too often undermined democracies abroad, leading to dictatorships or military regimes, from Iran to Guatemala to Congo to Chile. Now, with a right-wing Supreme Court doing Trump’s bidding and the potential for a compliant,

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Last February, Sha’ban al-Dalou, a student at Gaza’s al-Azhar University, made an online plea to the world: “Hello from the tent where we reside. I’m Sha’ban Ahmad, 19 years old. I’m a student studying software engineering. In this barbaric starvation war, we have been displaced five times so far. Now we are in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital in the middle of Gaza, Deir al Balah. I’m taking care of my family as I’m the oldest. I have two sisters and two little brothers, and my parents.” For over six months, up until last week, he and his family had been living in a tent near Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital. In the early hours of Monday, October 14th, Israel bombed the crowded makeshift camp, setting many tents on fire. The tent that Sha’ban built with his own hands became his funeral pyre. Horrific video footage of the attack went viral, showing Sha’ban, leaning up in his bed, raising his arm with an intravenous drip still attached, being burned alive. His mother was also incinerated, and several other family members grievously burned. It was just days before Sha’ban’s 20th birthday. In the following days, his younger brother Abdul Ruhman and his sister Farah both died of their wounds. His death only amplifies the tragedy of his earlier plea for funds: “We live in very hard circumstances, suffering from homelessness and limited food and extremely limited medicine, and the only thing between us and the freezing temperature is this tent that we constructed by ourselves. I made this campaign to restart a new life in Egypt and evacuate. Thank you.” In the video, an Israeli drone whines overhead, a constant reminder that no place is safe in Gaza. Sha’ban, Abdul and Farah were just three of Israel’s victims in what has increasingly been described as a genocide. Estimates of the death toll range from just over 42,000 to as high as 300,000 Palestinians killed during Israel’s year-long assault on Gaza following Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. Of course, none of this violence would be possible were it not for the unfettered support that the United States gives to Israel, with tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons, diplomatic cover, and now with troops on the ground. Abubaker Abed, a young Gaza journalist, lives near the scene of the attack that killed Sha’ban. He shared his reaction, speaking on the Democracy Now! news hour: We are about the same age. He memorized the Qur’an. I memorized the Qur’an. He dreamt of completing his studies. I also dream of completing my studies. Our message is very clear from here: We are young men that have nothing to do with this war. We have no connection with Hamas. But we are daily being subjected to violence and brutality…It just keeps going on and on, and without any stop, even after the news of the killing of the Hamas leader. What more should we really endure so this war will stop? B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, says the international community must take action to force Israel to stop its assault, especially given its latest siege on northern Gaza, now entering its fourth week. “This is ethnic cleansing,” Sarit Michaeli, B’Tselem’s international advocacy lead, said on Democracy Now! “All this indicates one clear goal, which is to remove the people from northern Gaza, to empty that area…we called last week on the international community to really take responsibility for what is going on in Gaza. We stated openly that it’s not just Israeli policymakers who should be held accountable and face consequences for these crimes, but also that the international community cannot but be considered complicit if Israel goes ahead and empties north Gaza of its inhabitants.” Michaeli says Israel’s “absolutely horrific plan..includes provisions that are absolutely and clearly war crimes and could probably also be viewed as crimes against humanity.” If these crimes weren’t enough, Israel is also violating US law, using arms from the US against a civilian population, and directly preventing US humanitarian aid shipments from reaching their intended recipients. Yet, the Biden administration seems unwilling to put a stop to Israel’s unrelenting and illegal attack on the Palestinians trapped in Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken just finished his 11th trip to Israel over the last year. Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israel on October 13th, threatening that a failure to increase humanitarian aid into Gaza “within 30 days” may result in a halt in arms shipments to Israel. “Nowhere in the law does it say, ‘Give them 30 days to see if they can fix it,’” Josh Paul, a former State Dept. official who managed arms transfers then resigned over Biden’s Gaza policy, said on Democracy Now! For Sha’ban and so many others, it is too late. But for the living in Gaza, including those held hostage, there must be a ceasefire, now.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Palestinians in Gaza have endured more than a year of Israel’s constant bombardment, ground assaults with tanks and troops, sniper fire, displacement and starvation. Armed drones constantly buzz overhead, a reminder that no place in Gaza is safe, and that death could come at any moment. Over 42,000 Gazans have been killed already. Prior to Hamas’s raid on Israel on October 7th, 2023, the Gaza Strip was considered the world’s largest open-air prison, with its impoverished population of 2.3 million walled in by the Israeli military since 2006. Half of the population of Gaza is under the age of 18, born under siege, raised while denied adequate access to clean water, education, employment, nutrition, and freedom of movement. The scale of the violence that Israel, with full US support, is raining on Palestinians in Gaza is without precedent, and is widely considered an ongoing genocide. One of Israel’s stated goals has been to kill Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, which it claims to have done in Rafah on Wednesday. Will Israel now accept a ceasefire, and will the hostages in Gaza come home? Apparently not. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war will go on. The protests in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu, led by the families of hostages, continue. News of the situation in Gaza is hard to obtain, as Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering. Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been doing remarkable reporting, but Israel has killed well over 120 of them in the past year. Some of the best, first-hand accounts of the horrors have come from foreign medical workers. This week, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled, “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” written by Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who volunteered for two weeks at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Sidhwa wrote, “I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8…Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total.” The article included three X-ray images showing the upper body of different Palestinian children. Each showed a bullet lodged in the head or neck. “It’s pretty clear that when there’s a pattern — every time any international has been around, for an entire year, on a daily basis, a child has been shot in the head in a place of 2 million people, it seems unlikely to me that that’s an accident,” Dr. Sidhwa said on the Democracy Now! news hour. Rajaa Musleh is a Palestinian nurse who grew up in Gaza. She worked in Gaza City, trapped at one point in the Al-Shifa Hospital for over 40 days. “We received a huge number of injured persons coming to the emergency department, and the majority of the cases, unfortunately, women and children,” Musleh said on Democracy Now! “Many children come without legs, without arms…I witnessed a father holding his children in two bags.” She described the guilt she felt when compelled to leave a dying ten-year-old girl, in order to attend to others who had a chance of living: “Ninety percent of her body was burned. She asked me to stay beside her and hold her hand. I will never, ever forget her burned skin in my hands. I feel guilty because I did not stay beside her in the bed…I feel guilty when she asked me about her mother and father and sister, brothers, and I didn’t respond because the whole family had been killed during the bombing of her house.” Rajaa Musleh continued, “I will never forget the dogs, eating a dead body inside Al-Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department.” Netanyahu and his war cabinet are agitating for a wider war, promising an imminent attack on Iran as the United States has sent Israel a high-tech missile defense battery and 100 US troops to operate it. The US also used B2 Stealth bombers to strike Yemen this week. Forgotten amidst the geopolitics, beneath the warplanes and the uninterrupted flow of arms from the US to Israel, are both the Palestinian civilians, trapped with no place safe in Gaza, and the remaining Israeli hostages, seemingly sacrificed by Netanyahu as just another cost of his endless war. Meanwhile, trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa will continue telling the world what he saw in Gaza: “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, it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Helene” and “Milton” could be a favorite aunt and uncle; instead, they have become emblems of the deepening climate disaster as the names of hurricanes that have brought death and destruction. Amidst these two epic storms, an historic election is underway, with one political party actively spewing lies and disinformation about the cause of the hurricanes and the deployment of disaster relief – lies that can take lives. Meanwhile, marginalized communities, like prisoners and farmworkers, suffer heightened risks from extreme weather events but, like the mention of climate change itself, rarely appear on the major networks’ nonstop coverage. One lesson from these back-to-back hurricanes: the climate emergency is real and it impacts us all. As this column goes to press, Floridians are still assessing Milton’s impact. The storm threatened to devastate Tampa, with one projection that a direct, Category 5 hurricane impact on that low-lying city could cause over $230 billion in damage–not to mention the lives lost. While Milton’s path diverged slightly from that worst-case scenario, early damage assessments still paint a dire picture. More than 100 tornado warnings were issued as the powerful, climate-fueled weather system approached Florida’s Gulf Coast. One tornado touched down on Florida’s east coast, killing at least 4 people. Rescuers were still sifting through the wreckage on Thursday, searching for more victims. Scientists are speaking with ever more precision about the impact of the human-induced warming climate on hurricanes and other extreme weather events. Exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico supercharged both Helene and Milton. NASA’s Earth Observatory noted, “Sea surface temperatures helped fuel [Milton]’s rapid intensification …with winds increasing from 80 to 175 miles per hour in 24 hours.” The World Weather Attribution project, researching links between climate and extreme weather, reported “climate change is enhancing conditions conducive to the most powerful hurricanes like Helene, with more intense rainfall totals and wind speeds,” predicting hurricanes will be more frequent – at least 1.5 times as likely – and stronger, as a result of human-caused climate change. While the science is clear, Republicans like presidential candidate Donald Trump and Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia have been spreading lies with alarming success, falsely claiming that the federal government is directing emergency response funds to immigrants, or, in Green’s case, claiming the government is actually controlling the weather to hurt red states. “I think we’re entering into a really dark new phase reckoning with the climate crisis,” David Wallace-Wells, a columnist with The New York Times, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. “Many people are choosing to retreat into little cocoons of disinformation and paranoia. That scares me, in some ways, even more than the weather itself.” While demagogues distract, real people continue to suffer. Far from the 24-hour Milton coverage on cable networks, Florida’s roughly 28,000 incarcerated people were trapped in prisons and jails. Jordan Martinez, an organizer with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, pressured officials to evacuate incarcerated people before the hurricane hit. “The ongoing situation in Florida has been one of almost complete neglect and fiction writing by the Florida Department of Corrections and various county sheriff’s offices, jails, etc, claiming that incarcerated people are in fact, being evacuated,” Martinez said on Democracy Now! “We were able to achieve one evacuation of the Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County. But Manatee County, Lee County, Pinellas County, as well as St. Johns County on the eastern coast, all left prisoners in mandatory evacuation zones in the jails.” The Intercept reported that during Hurricane Helene, prisoners in North Carolina, stranded without power, were forced to drink water from toilets and to store their human waste in plastic bags, abandoned by prison guards who protected themselves. Florida’s vast and largely immigrant agricultural workforce also face extraordinary and largely unreported hurricane risks, including inadequate housing. “[Most workers’] mobile homes are really, really old. They are not safe places to be,” Gerardo Reyes Chavez, a farmworker and organizer at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in southwest Florida said on Democracy Now! “Sadly, the conditions of vulnerability, living conditions especially, are horrible in most agricultural communities. It’s all the dangers of climate change. This time, we were lucky that it didn’t hit us directly, but we know that other communities are suffering and are going to be needing support that are in a desperate situation right now. We will be taking steps to try to support them as much as we can.” The Atlantic hurricane season typically runs through November. How many more Helenes and Miltons, how many m

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Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Since Trump and Vance launched their campaign against Springfield’s Haitian residents, the city has experienced a wave of bomb threats. Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The planet is at a tipping point, on the verge of climate destruction accelerated by irreversible feedback loops. Climate activists are increasingly engaging in non-violent direct action, demanding change. Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.