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Democracy Now! 2023-07-18 Tuesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for July 18, 2023; Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel’s President; Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta; Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit “Choke Points” in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:17.5

We want to prevent us from filming on demolitions from the night in the

0:22.2

agent that the Deutre-Bersinian House is from cutting water pipes from

0:26.8

demolishing the schools. They don't want the international community, the people

0:31.0

are brought to see the truth, to see our our footage. So for that we are being

0:35.7

targeted as a president, journalists and activists on the ground. As Israeli

0:40.7

president Isaac Herzog meets President Biden at the White House and prepares

0:45.2

to address a joint session of Congress. We'll go to the occupied West Bank to

0:50.0

talk to Palestinian journalist Basil Adra. On Saturday Israeli forces hand

0:55.2

cuffed and blindfolded him forcing him to sit in the blazing sun for hours

1:00.0

after he refused to hand over footage of an Israeli settler attack. We'll also

1:05.8

speak with Palestinian human rights attorney Nora Erichat, then to labor,

1:11.3

power and strategy. What happens here is important because what's happening to

1:19.2

us is happening across all fields of labor. By means of when employers make wall

1:30.6

streets and greed their priority and they forget about the essential

1:38.4

contributors that make the machine run. 160,000 actors enter their fifth day on

1:47.2

strike, joining tens of thousands of screenwriters who've been on strike since

1:51.3

May. This all comes as UPS workers are preparing for what could be the

1:55.6

second largest strike at a single employer in US history. We'll speak with the

2:00.5

legendary historian of the Mexican Revolution, labor organizer and professor

2:06.2

John Wilma, about how to seize and build labor power and solidarity. All that

2:12.2

and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracy now dot org the Warren

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