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Democracy Now! 2023-08-18 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 18, 2023; Plantation Disaster Capitalism: Native Hawaiians Organize to Stop Land & Water Grabs After Maui Fire; Teach No Lies: Historian Marvin Dunn Takes on Ron DeSantis & Florida’s Attack on Black History; Inside the Smithsonian’s “Racial Brain Collection” & the Eugenics Project Behind It

Transcript

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:17.1

There's been talk already about folks getting offers on their homes and I know from friends

0:22.6

that that's happening.

0:23.6

But as I mentioned, there's also water grab in the works and the discussion around this

0:29.0

really makes me fear for the future of Lahaina and whether or not it will be one that

0:33.4

includes Native Hawaiians and other local people or whether the build back will focus

0:39.4

on outsiders.

0:41.0

Plantation disaster capitalism.

0:44.3

Fear is growing among Native Hawaiians that wealthy interests will seize land and water

0:49.6

resources in this time of crisis on Maui as the death count continues to rise.

0:55.9

We'll go to Hawaii for the latest.

0:58.6

When teach no lies, as students return to school in Florida, we'll speak with the historian

1:04.3

leading the fight against the state's new black history curriculum that claims black people

1:09.8

benefited from being enslaved.

1:13.0

And we'll look at a shocking new Washington Post-Expoze revealing the Smithsonian has a racial

1:18.8

brain collection gathered in part by a racist anthropologist.

1:24.3

We're children in the collection.

1:26.1

There were men and women and then fetuses.

1:29.5

Many of them were indigenous people, other people of color and many of them didn't have

1:36.0

their identities actually recorded partly because they were looked at as specimens.

1:42.3

All that and more coming up.

1:51.7

Welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report, I'm Amy Goodman.

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