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Democracy Now! 2023-04-17 Monday

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Democracy Now!

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 17, 2023; Report from Khartoum: Civilians Killed & Trapped Amid Fighting Between Factions in Sudan’s Military; Meet Frank Mugisha: A Ugandan Activist Daring to Speak Out Against Bill to Jail & Kill LGBQT People; “Not Too Late”: Author Rebecca Solnit & Filipino Activist Red Constantino on Avoiding Climate Despair

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:18.0

The residents of Bajartou, mock up to heavy sands of compilers, explosions, and then we

0:25.4

found out that it's not restricted to one area.

0:28.0

This was happening all over the city, the Troy State Area, Khartou, Mdhrman Bahri, and

0:32.7

then we found out that this is actually happening in other cities around Sudan, where the rapid

0:37.4

support forces and the Surinis-Tarmed forces have erupted in conflicts.

0:43.0

Nearly 100 civilians have been killed in Sudan in heavy fighting between the Sudanese military

0:48.4

and rival paramilitary force, because this lead to civil war will go to Khartoum for the

0:53.5

latest.

0:54.5

Then, to a leading Ugandan LGBTQ activist who's risking his life by traveling to the United

1:01.3

States to speak out against a recently passed bill in Uganda that criminalizes anyone

1:08.0

identifying as LGBTQ.

1:11.0

This interview that I'm having now, if I had it in Uganda, the studio, the entity myself

1:21.2

would be criminalized.

1:24.6

This legislation is yet to erase the entire livelihood of the LGBTQ person in Uganda.

1:32.0

And then, not too late, changing the climate story from despair to possibility.

1:38.4

We'll speak to longtime Filipino climate campaigner Red Constantino and the award-winning

1:43.6

writer and activist Rebecca Solnet.

1:46.6

We can leave the age in which fossil fuel politics, which have been so grotesquely corrupt

1:52.1

as we observe the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the US government.

2:00.2

But also, we don't just have to change the energy system, we have to change the culture.

2:05.3

I think we have to change what we value, how we measure wealth, all that and more coming

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