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Democracy Now! 2023-08-22 Tuesday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 22, 2023; “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year; Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors; Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order; In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:18.9

Donald Trump is going to be in Atlanta sometime in the next few days for his arrangement and

0:24.3

a mug shot and he's out will be out on $200,000 of bond, which is great for him because

0:31.7

he's got the money.

0:33.2

But a lot of people in this town can't make a $5,000 bond and some of them die in jail

0:38.7

because of it.

0:40.0

Donald Trump's bond has been set at $200,000 in Georgia where he faces charges for running

0:45.4

a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election.

0:49.3

Bill Surrender Thursday will speak to Atlanta reporter George Chitty who is subpoenaed

0:54.9

to testify to the Fountain County grand jury about stumbling on a meeting of fake electors

1:00.5

and being thrown out.

1:02.7

Then to South Africa where a major summit of the BRICS nations is getting underway.

1:08.3

This BRICS summit is particularly important as it is being held as the world is confronted

1:15.9

by fundamental challenges that are bound to determine the cause of international events

1:22.9

for years to come.

1:24.3

And then to Ecuador where voters have passed an historic referendum to block oil extraction

1:30.3

in Amazon's e-syni national park.

1:33.9

Communities are a community that has their suffering from the oil industry since before

1:37.9

I was even born and that is the reality of many many in the dinners and Amazonian communities

1:45.1

in Ecuador and in the other Amazonian countries.

1:49.3

We'll speak with Ecuador and indigenous leader Elena Polenga, all that and more, coming up.

2:02.2

Welcome to democracynow, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report, I made me good

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