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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
From the Grassroots to the Ballot Box: How Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum Won In Florida; “Mississippi Is Failing”: As Prisoner Deaths Reach 13 in August Alone, Advocates Demand Answers; Update on Prison Strike Demanding End of “Slave Labor”: After 10 Days, Protests Spread to 11 States.
Meet Crystal Mason, the Black Texas Mother Facing 5+ Years in Prison for Voting in the 2016 Election; Top Student Loan Watchdog Resigns over Trump Admin Doing Bidding of Predatory Lenders; Books, Not Magazines: Outcry Grows over DeVos Plan to Divert Federal Funds and Put Guns in Schools; Puerto Rico Raises Official Death Toll to … Continued
50 Years Ago: Antiwar Protesters Brutally Attacked in Police Riots at 1968 Democratic Convention; Bound & Gagged: Black Panther Party Chair Bobby Seale Describes His Trial After 1968 DNC Protests; 1968 DNC Protests, 50 Years Later: Organizers Recall Coalition Building & Running Pig for President.
Obit Omit: What the Media Leaves Out of John McCain’s Record of Misogyny and Militarism; Sanders Backers Win Major Reforms as Democratic Nat’l Committee Votes to Limit Superdelegate Power; Pope Asks Forgiveness for Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal as New Letter Says He Knew, But Failed to Act.
Mother of NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner: My Daughter Was “Nailed to the Door” by the Trump Admin; James Risen: Reality Winner’s Sentence Is One of the Worst Miscarriages of Justice in Recent History; Is Trump Above the Law? James Risen on Prosecuting the President & Why Press Needs to Fight Back; 17-Year-Old Helps Win Last-Minute … Continued
The Case Against Donald Trump: Rep. Al Green Says President Must Resign or Face Impeachment; NC’s Sole Black Woman Historical Commissioner: Confederate Statues Don’t Belong at State Capitol; White Nationalism in the White House: Administration Faces New Revelations About Ties to Far Right.
Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty & Implicates Trump as Paul Manafort Is Convicted. Is Impeachment Next? Trump Administration Admits 1,400+ More People Will Die Each Year Following Coal Plant Deregulation; Meet Maya Little, UNC Student Whose Protest Ignited the Movement to Topple a Racist Confederate Statue.
Sister Simone Campbell: Catholic Sex Abuse Stems from “Monarchy” & Exclusion of Women from Power; National Prison Strike Begins: Prisoners in 17 States Demand End to “Slave Labor” Behind Bars; From Attica to South Carolina: Heather Ann Thompson on the Roots of the Nationwide Prison Strike.
ICE Arrests Husband Taking Pregnant Wife to Hospital to Give Birth, Forcing Her to Drive Alone; Horror at TX Detention Center: ICE Guards Separate Fathers & Sons After They Had Just Been Reunited; In Memoriam: David McReynolds, the Gay Socialist Pacifist Who Twice Ran for President, Dies at 88.
Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin Offered to Post Bail For Me, Saying “Black People Will Be Free”; Angela Davis: Aretha Franklin “Will Forever Animate Our Collective Sense of Desire for Change”; Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin, an Icon of the Civil Rights & Feminist Movements.
