Democracy Now! 2024-05-15 Wednesday
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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 New York, this. |
| 0:04.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | The Nachba happened in 1948. |
| 0:20.0 | The Nachba continues in the present today in Gaza. |
| 0:25.0 | The Nachba must be stopped in Gaza and the Nachba must be reversed in the long run. |
| 0:31.0 | Palestinians across the globe mark the 76th anniversary of what they call the Nokb |
| 0:37.7 | or catastrophe. |
| 0:39.5 | When some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes upon Israel's founding. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll speak with a Palestinian historian. |
| 0:50.0 | Then we hear from a doctor who saved the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth 20 years ago when she was injured in Iraq. |
| 0:59.0 | He's now part of an American medical delegation trapped at the European Hospital in Hanyunis. |
| 1:07.0 | What we want is not only for us to leave, we seem to, we're here because we have not been granted safe passage |
| 1:15.5 | we're supposed to leave after two weeks and that date has passed normally is |
| 1:20.8 | coordinated between the UN and the IDF and this is not we have been not given |
| 1:28.2 | to weight life so we cannot really leave the hospital safely we've been told that if we do then we basically are |
| 1:37.2 | responsible for anything that happens to us. But first House Speaker Mike |
| 1:42.0 | Johnson is the highest level Republican official yet |
| 1:46.0 | to visit the criminal hush money election interference trial of former President |
| 1:51.2 | Donald Trump underway in New York. |
| 1:54.0 | It's the fifth week that President Trump has been in court for this sham of a trial. |
| 2:00.0 | They are doing this intentionally to keep him here and keep him off of the campaign trail. |
| 2:05.0 | And I think everybody in the country can see that for what it is. |
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