Democracy Now! 2024-05-01 Wednesday
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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Headlines for May 01, 2024; Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments; Juan González, Veteran of '68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders' Silence on Gaza Slaughter; USC Grad Student Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against University over Arrests; Reed Brody: U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can’t Prosecute Israel for War Crimes
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| 0:00.0 | And From New York, this is Democracy Now. I know, the people, the people, let the people, let the people, |
| 0:27.0 | the people united will never be defeated. |
| 0:32.0 | Crack down on campus. |
| 0:34.0 | Over 200 students at Columbia University and City College of New York are arrested |
| 0:40.0 | in massive police raids to break up Gaza Solidarity Encampments. We'll get the latest. |
| 0:46.4 | The raid on Columbia came 56 years to the day that police raided Hamilton Hall arresting 700 people protesting racism in the Vietnam War. |
| 0:57.0 | Then on this May day, we go to the University of Southern California which signed a first ever union contract for graduate student |
| 1:03.8 | workers. The union filed an unfair labor practice charge to end campus |
| 1:08.1 | militarization and drop charges against students and faculty faculty and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashes |
| 1:16.2 | out against the International Criminal Court for looking into possible war crimes by Israel in Gaza. |
| 1:25.0 | The International Criminal Court in the Hague |
| 1:28.0 | is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials as war criminals. |
| 1:37.2 | This would be an outrage of historic proportions. |
| 1:41.6 | We'll talk to war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. All that and more coming up. |
| 1:47.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:53.0 | The War and Peace Report. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:56.0 | New York Police and Riot Gear raided the campuses of Columbia University |
| 2:01.0 | and the City College of New York Tuesday night arresting |
| 2:04.7 | more than 200 student protesters in the latest crackdown on peaceful Palestine solidarity protests |
| 2:11.3 | on U.S. campuses. |
| 2:12.4 | Over the past two weeks, police in the United solidarity protests on US campuses. |
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