Democracy Now! 2023-03-17 Friday
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🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for March 17, 2023; Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families; Julian Assange’s Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary “Ithaka”; Blood and Treasure: Documenting the Costs of Iraq War from Civilian Casualties to Trillions Spent
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.3 | Family detention is inherently inhumane, it's unacceptable and has no place in adjust society. |
| 0:26.6 | The evidence is crystal clear, detention under any condition, under any circumstance, |
| 0:32.7 | harms people. |
| 0:34.3 | Almost 400 immigrant and human rights groups are urging the Biden administration not to |
| 0:39.7 | reinstate migrant family detention. |
| 0:42.8 | We'll speak with two of the organizers. |
| 0:45.4 | Then as we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at a new |
| 0:50.2 | documentary about the father of Julian Assange and his fight to free his son. |
| 0:56.2 | Julian was imprisoned for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. |
| 1:01.2 | I urge the Department of Justice to drop the charges. |
| 1:06.0 | The maximum jail sentence of 175 years because he published the truth. |
| 1:11.6 | How does it feel to be the father of such a controversial figure somebody who's not |
| 1:16.8 | known around the world? |
| 1:18.2 | We'll speak to Julian Assange's father and brother. |
| 1:22.3 | Then we look at the costs of the Iraq war from civilian casualties to soaring Pentagon budgets. |
| 1:29.2 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:36.8 | Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:40.7 | Wall Street's largest banks have moved to prop up the Ailing San Francisco-based First |
| 1:45.9 | Republic Bank. |
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