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Democracy Now! 2023-05-26 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Headlines for May 26, 2023; Seditious Conspiracy: Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Gets 18 Years in Prison for Jan. 6; “Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History; Spike Lee on “Malcolm X” & How Hollywood Almost Prevented Landmark Film from Being Made; Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up

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0:46.4

Brung Cambridge, Massachusetts, this is Democracy Now. The far right founder of the

0:53.7

Oath Keepers, Stuart Rhodes, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for

0:58.7

seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6th insurrection. We'll get the

1:03.6

latest. Then we hear from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicole Hanna Jones

1:08.4

and Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee on the legacy of Malcolm X, the making of

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the film and the power of history. Our ancestors risked their life because they

1:19.8

understood the education was going to be the key. Our ancestors risked their

1:26.5

life to be educated. We cannot let that go. There's a reason where the only

1:33.0

people in the history of the United States for whom it was ever illegal to learn

1:36.0

to read and write because we know right that education leads to liberation and

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you can't keep a people down who understands their history. Plus we look back at

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the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago. On Memorial Day in 1937, striking

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workers at Republic Steel in South Chicago gathered for a picnic. When union

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activists marched towards the plan, police attacked. Why were 10 workers killed

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and why was the only film footage of the tragedy hidden from the public? The

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lessons for workers in the media still resonate today. All that and more coming up.

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