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Democracy Now! 2024-04-17 Wednesday

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Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for April 17, 2024; One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises; No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel; Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

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0:00.0

From the From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

We demand that Google drop Project Nimbus,

0:20.0

the $1.2 billion contract between them and Israel.

0:23.3

We demand that Google protect their Arab, Muslim,

0:26.2

and Palestinian worker voices from harassment, retaliation,

0:30.3

suppression.

0:31.4

And we demand that Google recognize Project Nimbus as a workplace safety and

0:35.4

health concern.

0:36.7

At least nine Google workers are arrested after sitting in at the company's offices in New York and the Google CEO's

0:45.8

office in Sunnyville, California to protest the tech giants work with the

0:50.5

Israeli government. We'll speak with two of them and an organizer with the Israeli government. We'll speak with two of them,

0:53.6

and an organizer with the No Tech for a Partate campaign.

0:57.4

Then 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1:02.1

begin voting to join the United Auto Workers as it tries to expand

1:06.7

in the South.

1:07.7

We'll speak with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan, author of The Hammer, Power, In, and the struggle for the soul of labor.

1:15.4

But first, it's the one-year anniversary of the Civil War in Sudan, which has created one of the

1:20.4

world's worst humanitarian crises.

1:24.0

This is more than a conflict between two warring parties.

1:28.0

It is a war being waged on the Sudanese people.

1:31.5

It is a war on the many thousands of civilians who have been killed and

1:36.0

tens of thousands made for life.

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