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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – September 6, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – September 5, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – September 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – September 3, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – September 2, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: From Decriminalization to Border Crackdown, Harris Defends Hard-Line Shift in 1st Interview as Nominee No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel “Opportunity Economy”: Kamala Harris Promotes Expanded Child Tax Credit, Regulating Price Gouging No Ban on Fracking: Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels in Shift from 2019 “Master Plan”: New Lever Podcast Series Traces How Oligarchs “Legalized Corruption” in U.S. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 30, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Report from Gaza: Israel Kills Dozens More, Increases Forced Evacuations, Attacks Aid Truck “They Want Palestine Empty”: Artist in Jenin Blasts U.S. Support for Israel Amid West Bank Assault “Gender Apartheid”: Taliban Approves Law in Afghanistan Requiring Women Remain Silent in Public Warnings of Nuclear Catastrophe as Power Plants in Russia and Ukraine at Risk Amid Escalating War The post Democracy Now 6am – August 29, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Trying to Repeat the Nakba”: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades “Five-Alarm Fire for Democracy”: New GOP Rules Could Block Election Results in Georgia and Beyond Latino Rights Groups Urge Department of Justice to Investigate Texas Attorney General for Raiding Homes of LULAC Leaders The post Democracy Now 6am – August 28, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents The post Democracy Now 6am – August 27, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict “How Many More?” Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols, Roger Fortson Cases Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC and Fight to Defeat Trump The post Democracy Now 6am – August 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s 2-hour show: “Historic Moment”: Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism and Shortcomings of Kamala Harris’s Nomination Watch: Palestinian-American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination How Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris “Two Faces of American Capitalism”: Juan González on What the RNC and DNC Reveal About U.S. Politics “A Generational Fight”: Political Organizers on Kamala Harris, Defeating Authoritarianism and More “A Testament to Our Power”: Chicago’s Little Palestine Resists Racism, Disenfranchisement, and War “We Have to Push”: Congressmember Greg Casar on Bringing Progressivism Back to Immigration Policy The first hour of today’s special 2-hour show (available here) began at 5am, preempting Background Briefing. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 23, 2024 (2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s 2-hour show: Uncommitted Delegates Launch Sit-In After DNC Rejects Request for a Palestinian Speaker at Convention Tim Walz Accepts VP Nomination; A Look at His Record on George Floyd Murder, IVF, Guns and Gaza “Stop Sending Bombs”: Rep. Ilhan Omar Visits Uncommitted Sit-In & Demands Israeli Arms Embargo Uncommitted Delegates Speak Out After Sleeping Outside DNC to Protest Silencing of Palestinian Voices “So Horrific”: Doctor Recounts Treating Patients in Gaza Injured in Massacres Enabled by U.S. Bombs Climate Crisis and Election Roundtable: From Tim Walz’s Record to Project 2025 to Israel The first hour of today’s special 2-hour show (available here) began at 5am, preempting Background Briefing. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 22, 2024 (2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s 2-hour show: As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks. Trump and Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns, as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change. At DNC, Michelle and Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump’s “Same Old Con” The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a “Tipping Point for Our Democracy”: Michele Goodwin What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy The first hour of today’s special 2-hour show (available here) began at 5am, preempting Background Briefing. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 21, 2024 (2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s 2-hour show: Thousands March on Democratic National Convention in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party” Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris and Attacks Corporate Greed Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change “Stop Arming Israel”: Meet the DNC Delegates Who Unfurled Banner During Biden Speech Audio for the first hour of today’s special 2-hour show began at 5:00 am and is available here. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 20, 2024 (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s 2-hour show: “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout the Week, as the Democratic National Convention Begins in Chicago Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers and Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC Reverend Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party and Paved the Way for Kamala Harris Voices from the Streets of Chicago: DNC Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire and Economic Justice Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab-American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy? The Exonerated: Meet Two Chicago Men Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades — on Police Torture, Death Row, and More Phil Donahue, Legendary Talk Show Host Fired by MSNBC for Airing Antiwar Views, Dies at 88 Audio for the first hour of today’s special 2-hour show began at 5:00 am and is available here. The post Democracy Now 6am (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Watch Undercover Video: Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out “Radical Agenda” for Next Trump Term “Decolonize Global Health”: WHO Declares Mpox Public Health Emergency as Africa Awaits Vaccines Has the Mystery of the Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing Been Solved? Ukrainian Suspect Flees Arrest The post Democracy Now 6am – August 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel, as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000 Colombia Faces “One of the Largest Humanitarian Crises on Earth,” as Armed Groups Grow Stronger “End the Impunity”: Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group The post Democracy Now 6am – August 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: How Elon Musk Broke with the Democrats to Spend Millions on Donald Trump’s Reelection Campaign. How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli. Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to Faith Leaders in U.S.: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide. Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – August 14, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Middle East Braces as Iran and Hezbollah Vow Retaliation for Israeli Assassinations Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Is Part of “Axis of Zionist Extremism” Who Are the Venezuelan Opposition? Leonardo Flores and Alejandro Velasco Debate Election Aftermath The post Democracy Now 6am – August 13, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Pieces of People”: Israeli Strike on Gaza School Kills 100+, with Bodies Destroyed Beyond Recognition Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Government 2024 Paris Olympics Highlights and Lowlights: From Hijab Bans to Social Cleansing to Boxing Gold Meet Fadi Deeb, Palestinian Paralympian from Gaza Who Lost 15 Relatives in Israeli Assault The post Democracy Now 6am – August 12, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.