Democracy Now! 2024-02-16 Friday
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 16, 2024; “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State; “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress; Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing; “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics Trying to Save Dying 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab
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| 0:00.0 | This news is funded by viewers and listeners like you. |
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| 0:27.0 | This is what happens when you ensure that the state of Missouri does not require a permit to carry or to purchase, does not require any |
| 0:36.0 | restrictions on people who've been convicted of intimate partner violence, does |
| 0:39.7 | not ban assault rifles. One dead, 22 wounded in the Super Bowl Parade shooting in Kansas City. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll take a look at Missouri's gun control laws, some of the weakest in the country. |
| 0:52.0 | The shooting came on the sixth anniversary of the |
| 0:55.4 | Parkland Florida High School Massacre. We'll speak with a Parkland father about his son Guoque and his new art project Shotline which will call |
| 1:08.4 | lawmakers with AI generated audio messages featuring the voices of gun violence victims like his son. |
| 1:16.5 | Then Australia's parliament approves a motion calling for the release of imprisoned WikiLeaks |
| 1:20.7 | founder Julian Assange. This will be the time for all of us to take a stand, to stand up and to take a stand, and to stand |
| 1:29.4 | with Julian Assange, stand for the principles of justice. Friends, stand for the principles of justice. |
| 1:33.0 | Friends, stand for the principles of media freedom and the rights of journalists to do their job. |
| 1:39.0 | Assange is facing a critical appeal hearing in a British court next week. |
| 1:45.0 | His last chance to challenge his extradition to the United States, |
| 1:49.0 | where he faces 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents. |
| 1:55.7 | Then to Gaza and to the phone call that reverberated around the world. |
| 1:59.7 | Yes, in the car, we're next to the tank. |
| 2:03.0 | Are you inside the car? |
| 2:05.0 | Oh my go! |
| 2:07.0 | Hello? |
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