Democracy Now! 2024-04-24 Wednesday
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for April 24, 2024; “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel”: 100s Arrested at Jewish-Led Protest Near Schumer’s Home; Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism”; Months Ago State Dept. Panel Exposed Israeli Units’ Rights Abuses, But U.S. Arms Keep Flowing; Climate Activists Blockade Citigroup HQ in NYC to Demand Banking Giant Stop Funding Fossil Fuels; Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of “Destroying Cuban Economy” Drives Migration
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | Too many of our people are worshiping a false idol once again. |
| 0:24.0 | They are in raptured by it, they are drunk on it, |
| 0:28.0 | they are profaned by it, |
| 0:30.0 | and that false idol is called Zionism. |
| 0:34.0 | Here in the streets, award-winning author and activist Naomi Klein joins thousands at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. |
| 0:42.0 | On the second night of Passover, one block from |
| 0:44.8 | Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer's home. As many as 300 people were |
| 0:50.6 | arrested. Then months ago a State Department panel urged the Biden |
| 0:55.8 | administration to disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units |
| 1:00.5 | from receiving US aid over serious human rights abuses, but Secretary of State |
| 1:05.8 | Lincoln has still not taken action. We'll speak with the ProPublica reporter who |
| 1:10.6 | broke the story. Then as we broadcast climate activists gather at the global headquarters of Citigroup here in Manhattan |
| 1:18.0 | to demand the banks stop financing coal, oil, and gas companies. |
| 1:24.0 | We are calling for Citibank to commit to end funding and financing services for new and expanding liquefied methane gas projects and their parent |
| 1:36.8 | companies, including all projects that have already been built and those that have not been built. |
| 1:44.0 | We'll speak with environmentalists Rochetto-Ozan of Sulfur, Louisiana, |
| 1:50.0 | and high-level migration talks between the U.S US and Cuba are held in Washington. |
| 1:55.0 | We'll talk with Cuba's deputy foreign minister. |
| 1:58.0 | The aim of the United States policy since 1960 has been to make life as difficult and as unbearable |
| 2:05.3 | as possible for the people of Cuba with the ambition that that will lead to the |
| 2:09.5 | overthrow of the government |
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