Democracy Now! 2023-05-22 Monday
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines for May 22, 2023; Hiroshima Survivor Slams G7 Leaders for Embracing War & Rejecting Nuclear Disarmament; As Gov. DeSantis Preps White House Run, PEN America Sues Florida School District over Book Ban; “African Queens: Njinga”: Kellie Carter Jackson on Netflix Series & Teaching Black History; Masha Gessen Resigns from PEN America Board over Cancellation of Russian Writers Panel; “A Cowardly Measure”: Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso Dissolves Parliament to Avoid Impeachment
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| 0:48.8 | It pains me. It pains many others, survivors who survived because we have been |
| 0:57.0 | recalling our painful story to tell the world as a warning about the danger of |
| 1:03.2 | new fuel weapons. I want the world to wake up to the reality of this totally |
| 1:10.0 | unacceptable reality. And I hope more people will stand up and say we're not |
| 1:19.4 | going to think this nonsense anymore. The G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, has |
| 1:25.5 | wrapped as the United States and its allies pledge more military support for |
| 1:30.2 | Ukraine, including US training on F-16 fighter jets. But G7 leaders fail to |
| 1:35.7 | make progress a nuclear disarmament. We'll speak to a survivor of the 1945 US |
| 1:41.5 | atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Then the NAACP issues a formal travel advisory for |
| 1:48.6 | Florida saying the state under Governor Ron DeSantis has become quote hostile to |
| 1:54.2 | black Americans. Meanwhile, Panamera and Penguin Random House had sued a Florida |
| 1:59.8 | school board for banning books. We'll speak to the head of Panamera, Susan Nassau, |
| 2:05.3 | and Professor Kelly Carter Jackson. Distracted by the things that Ron DeSantis is |
| 2:13.0 | trying to do. He is trying to steal our joy to make us feel bad about being |
| 2:19.3 | black. But we are not tragically colored. Plus we go to Ecuador where President |
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