Democracy Now! 2023-09-05 Tuesday
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for September 05, 2023; Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate; “Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:18.8 | Hate will not prevail in America. |
| 0:23.2 | Racism will not prevail in America. |
| 0:27.7 | The domestic terrorism will not prevail in America, and to make it real clear, silence |
| 0:34.3 | on this issue, both public and private, from the private sector, silence is complicity. |
| 0:43.2 | During a trip to Florida, President Biden denounced last week shooting in Jacksonville when |
| 0:48.0 | a racist gunman shot dead three black people at a store near a historically black college, |
| 0:54.2 | who will speak to Bishop William Barber, who links the murders to the hateful rhetoric |
| 0:59.0 | of Governor Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump and others. |
| 1:02.7 | Then we look at the role of psychologists and devising the CIA's torture program as |
| 1:07.9 | a judge at Guantanamo tosses the confession of a man who is repeatedly tortured at CIA |
| 1:14.8 | black sites. |
| 1:16.1 | We'll speak to the psychologist Roy Adelson, author of the new book, Doing Harm, How the |
| 1:22.1 | World's largest psychological association lost its way in the war on terror. |
| 1:28.8 | Democracy relies upon civil society organizations that are willing to stand up to protect human |
| 1:34.9 | rights and oppose government misconduct. |
| 1:38.4 | In my new book, Doing Harm, I describe how during the war on terror, the American Psychological |
| 1:45.0 | Association failed to uphold these fundamental responsibilities. |
| 1:50.6 | In my view, the consequences have been tragic. |
| 1:54.2 | For detainees, to colonize my abuse of torture, for the profession of psychology, and for the |
| 2:00.6 | country as a whole. |
| 2:02.4 | All that and more coming up. |
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