Democracy Now! 2023-12-08 Friday
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for December 08, 2023; “We Want Freedom”: Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike, in His Own Words; “If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer; Friend Pays Tribute & Reads His Poem; COP28 Activists Say Palestine Solidarity Protests Calling for Ceasefire Face Severe Restrictions; Exclusive: Indigenous Climate Activist Jacob Johns Speaks Out After MAGA Gunman Shoots Him in New Mexico; Why Is Brazil Joining OPEC+ Oil Cartel, If Lula Is Committed to Phasing Out Fossil Fuels?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now. |
| 0:03.2 | Please support our independent journalism at democracy now.org. |
| 0:07.9 | That's Democracy Now. |
| 0:11.0 | Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. Thank you so much. From the UN Climate Summit in Dubai here in the United Arab Emirates, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:41.0 | The kids can't sleep, the kids can't eat, the kids can't even speak. |
| 0:47.1 | Most of the time they're just new silent shaking out of fear, sometimes whimpering because of how close the bombs are wherever you are in Gaza. |
| 1:00.0 | And again, how the houses shake every time there is a bomb around. |
| 1:05.8 | And this is happening again all over Gaza Strip. |
| 1:08.8 | Those were the words of the Palestinian poet and professor Raffat al-Adir on Democracy Now just two months ago. |
| 1:19.0 | He was killed this week in an Israeli airstrike along with his brother, sister, and four of his nieces. |
| 1:27.0 | We'll speak to one of her thoughts close friends as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza top 17,000. |
| 1:35.0 | Then in an exclusive interview, we speak with the indigenous climate activist Jacob Johns, |
| 1:41.0 | shot two months ago in New Mexico by a gunman wearing a red maga hat. |
| 1:47.0 | Jacob is here at the UN Climate Summit. |
| 1:50.0 | I was shot in New Mexico while attending a prayer visual for a conquistador that was trying to be put up for our statue. |
| 1:58.0 | It was like an homage to a colonization. |
| 2:02.0 | Then Brazilian prayer... to colonization. |
| 2:03.0 | Then Brazilian President Luis Inassio Lula de Silva |
| 2:07.8 | is calling for phasing out fossil fuels, |
| 2:10.9 | but as alarmed many climate activists as Brazil moves to join the Oil Pro producer Alliance OPEB-plus as an observer state. |
| 2:20.0 | Now is the time to face the debate about the slow motion pace of the decarbonization of a planet |
| 2:26.0 | and to work towards an economy that will be less reliant on fossil fuel. We'll speak to Amazon Watch about Lula's climate record. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now. |
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