Democracy Now! 2024-01-23 Tuesday
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond; “Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled”: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | We have in our lifetime. |
| 0:21.0 | From Iraq to that last 20 years in Afghanistan |
| 0:24.0 | fought wars that everybody, right left, everybody gets now. |
| 0:30.0 | We're spectacular, moral, as well as military failures failures for no other reason that anything else |
| 0:35.0 | would have cut into those 6.5 trillion dollar profits of the defense industry. |
| 0:40.0 | It's primary day in New Hampshire. |
| 0:42.7 | As Donald Trump and Nicky Haley square off in the Republican race, |
| 0:46.5 | we'll speak to Democratic presidential candidate Marion Williamson |
| 0:50.9 | about her long shot campaign against President Biden. |
| 0:54.8 | She's calling for a Department of Peace. |
| 0:58.2 | In an unusual twist, Williamson's name is on today's New Hampshire ballot, but Biden is not. |
| 1:05.4 | Biden opted out of running in New Hampshire after the state refused to move its primary |
| 1:10.6 | until after South Carolina. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll also speak to the acclaimed Chinese artist I Wei Wei |
| 1:17.0 | who recently had an exhibition in London cancelled |
| 1:21.0 | after he publicly criticized Israel's assault on Gaza. |
| 1:25.0 | But first we go to a tent facility built at a former airport in New York where 2,000 migrants |
| 1:31.0 | had to face sub-freezing temperatures this weekend. |
| 1:34.0 | We're in this tent where we don't have a bed, but at least we have cots to sleep. |
| 1:42.0 | If not, we'd be sleeping in the street. We don't have a way to |
| 1:45.5 | wash our clothes. The food is not great, but at least it's a warm meal. |
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