Democracy Now! 2024-05-15 Wednesday
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 15, 2024; Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters; “Stop This War Right Now”: U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth’s Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza; “A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges
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| 0:00.0 | From me. From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | The Nackba happened in 1948. |
| 0:21.0 | The Nackba continues in the present today in Gaza. The Nakba must be |
| 0:27.0 | stopped in Gaza and the Nakba must be reversed in the long run. |
| 0:32.3 | Palestinians across the globe |
| 0:34.0 | marked the 76th anniversary of what they'd call the knockbock or |
| 0:39.0 | catastrophe when some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes upon Israel's |
| 0:47.6 | founding. We'll speak with a Palestinian historian. Then we hear from a doctor who saved the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth 20 years |
| 0:58.0 | ago when she was injured in Iraq. He's now part of an American medical delegation trapped at the European Hospital in |
| 1:07.0 | Hanyunus. |
| 1:08.0 | What we want is not |
| 1:15.0 | being granted safe passage. |
| 1:17.0 | We're supposed to leave after two weeks and that date has passed. |
| 1:21.0 | Normally it's coordinated between the UN and the IDF and this is not, we have been |
| 1:28.9 | not given in green light, so we cannot really leave the hospital safely. |
| 1:34.3 | We've been told that if we do, then we basically are responsible for anything that happens |
| 1:40.3 | to us. |
| 1:41.3 | But first, House Speaker Mike Johnson is the highest level Republican official yet |
| 1:47.2 | to visit the criminal hush money election interference trial of former President |
| 1:52.3 | Donald Trump underway in New York. |
| 1:55.0 | It's the fifth week that President Trump has been in court for this sham of a trial. |
| 2:01.0 | They are doing this intentionally to keep him here and keep him off of the |
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