Democracy Now! 2024-05-23 Thursday
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 23, 2024; Irish Lawmaker: Recognizing Palestine as a State Is Rooted in Our History of Colonization & Famine; Dr. Adam Hamawy Describes Desperate Conditions at Gaza Hospitals Amid Attacks & Lack of Supplies; “Power”: Yance Ford on His New Documentary & Why “Violence Is Part and Parcel” of U.S. Policing
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | It is an historic and important day for Ireland and for Palestine. |
| 0:24.0 | Taking our place on the world stage and being recognized by others as having the right to be there |
| 0:29.0 | was a matter of the highest importance for the founders of our state. |
| 0:34.0 | Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced plans to formally recognize Palestine as an independent |
| 0:40.0 | state sparking criticism from Israel and the United States. We'll speak to a |
| 0:44.8 | member of the Irish Parliament on Ireland's long history of Palestinian |
| 0:48.8 | Solidarity. Then to Dr. Adam Hamawi, he just left Gaza after being trapped at the European Hospital in Conunis with other American doctors. |
| 0:58.0 | Hamawi is a former Army surgeon 20 years ago in Iraq. |
| 1:02.0 | He saved the life of now Senator Tammy Duckworth after her legs were blown off. |
| 1:07.0 | Then four years ago this coming Saturday, Minneapolis Police killed George Floyd, |
| 1:13.4 | sparking the historic protests for racial justice. |
| 1:16.6 | We'll look at filmmaker Yancey Ford's new documentary |
| 1:19.7 | Power about the untold story of American policing. |
| 1:24.0 | In the United States, police power is essentially unregulated. |
| 1:30.0 | In this kind of democracy, who is more powerful? |
| 1:37.0 | The people or the police. |
| 1:41.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:50.0 | Democracy Now. |
| 1:51.0 | The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Israel's intensifying its ground |
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