Democracy Now! Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Headlines for April 23, 2024; Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale; Juan González Reflects on Historic 1968 Columbia Protests & Crackdown on Gaza Solidarity Encampment; Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer

Headlines for April 22, 2024; Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country; “No Due Process”: Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests; “Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank; “Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing

Headlines for April 19, 2024; “No Palestinian Is Safe”: Renowned Feminist Scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Arrested in Jerusalem; Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest; “Fear and Terror”: Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel’s Assault; U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists

Headlines for April 18, 2024; Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student; The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus; Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power

Headlines for April 17, 2024; One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises; No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel; Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

Headlines for April 16, 2024; Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference; “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed; Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa; “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

Democracy Now! Monday, April 15, 2024

Headlines for April 12, 2024; “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China; “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine; Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

Headlines for April 11, 2024; “We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide; As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

Headlines for April 10, 2024; Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote; Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani; Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation

Headlines for April 09, 2024; “A Sea of Misery”: Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen, Says NGO Head/Ex-CNN Journalist Arwa Damon; “Empty Words”: Kenneth Roth on Biden’s Criticism of Israel While U.S. Keeps Weapons Flowing; 30 Years Later, Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of U.S. Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing

Headlines for April 08, 2024; Palestinians Mark 6 Months of Genocide as Israel Withdraws Some Troops from Gaza, Vows to Attack Rafah; Walid Daqqa: Palestinian Prisoner Dies from Cancer After Israel Refuses to Let Family Visit; “The Fossil Fuel Industry Is the Cause”: World Breaks Records for 3 Most Significant Greenhouse Gasses

Headlines for April 05, 2024; Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes; “No Other Land”: Israeli Director Slams Claims of Antisemitism for Apartheid Comment at Berlinale

Headlines for April 04, 2024; Palestinian American Dr. Walks Out of Biden Meeting, Hands Him Letter from 8-Year-Old Orphan in Gaza; Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza; From Prison to the Presidency in 3 Weeks: In Senegal, Pan-Africanist Opposition Figures Take Office

Headlines for April 03, 2024; Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island; “A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine; Israel Moves to Ban Al Jazeera in Latest Attack on Journalists Who Expose Horrors of War & Occupation; Ex-Israeli Negotiator Slams U.S. Arming of Israel Following Aid Convoy Attack & Iran Consulate Bombing

• Headlines for April 02, 2024
• Israel Kills 6 Int'l Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés's World Central Kitchen Convoy
• State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel
• Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza
• Israel "Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War," After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria

Democracy Now! Monday, April 1, 2024

• Headlines for March 29, 2024
• Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse
• Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War
• "Like Lying in a Coffin": UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza's Children
• ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing

• Headlines for March 28, 2024
• "The Worst of What Humanity Is Capable Of": Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on What She Saw in Gaza
• I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy
• As Gaza Faces Famine, Israel Cuts Ties with UNRWA and U.S. Halts Funding for Critical Aid Agency