Democracy Now! 2023-10-27 Friday
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for October 27, 2023; “Gaza Is Being Strangled”: UNRWA Calls for Immediate Ceasefire as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens; Gaza Poet Who Inspired Nonviolent Protests Is Injured in Israeli Airstrike; 5 Relatives Killed; “The Day After Tomorrow”: Israeli Hostage Negotiator on Freeing Captives & Building Lasting Peace; The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: Censorship, Harassment Intensifies on Campus Amid Gaza War
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.4 | Underwater UN Agency for Palestine Refugees is about to run out of supplies, including fuel |
| 0:26.0 | that is needed for incubators and life support machines and hospitals. |
| 0:31.0 | It's needed for bakeries, it's needed for water pumping. |
| 0:34.0 | If we run out of fuel, we will not be able to deliver any humanitarian assistance. |
| 0:40.0 | Gaza is being strangled. |
| 0:42.0 | That's the latest warning from the United Nations about the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza. |
| 0:48.0 | As Palestinian authorities say over 7,300 people have now been killed in Israel's 21-day bombardment. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll speak to a top-unrah official. |
| 0:58.0 | That's the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which is sheltering over 600,000 displaced |
| 1:04.0 | cousins. |
| 1:05.0 | Then we speak to an Israeli man who helped negotiate a prisoner swap with Hamas in 2011 that freed |
| 1:13.0 | the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years. |
| 1:17.0 | We'll also speak to New York University law student, Rena Workman, who lost a job at a prestigious law firm |
| 1:24.0 | after speaking up for Palestinian rights. |
| 1:27.0 | The biggest message I want to tell everyone right now is that no one should be punished |
| 1:31.0 | for speaking out for Palestinian human rights. |
| 1:33.0 | And the backlash we're seeing against me is creating a much larger and much more |
| 1:38.0 | intense chilling effect for other students. |
| 1:40.0 | And I think that in this moment we need to be able to feel empowered to speak up |
| 1:45.0 | and call for a ceasefire and into this genocide. |
| 1:49.0 | All that and more coming out. |
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