Democracy Now! 2024-06-26 Wednesday
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for June 26, 2024; “Julian Is Free”: Assange Back Home in Australia After Taking U.S. Plea Deal in “Espionage” Case; “A Big Deal”: Julian Assange’s Release Welcomed by Australian Senator After Grassroots Campaign; Julian Assange’s Release “Averted a Press Freedom Catastrophe” But Still Set Bad Precedent: Jameel Jaffer; Auma Obama, Sister of Pres. Obama, on Kenyan Police Attacks on Youth-Led Tax Protests, 22+ Killed
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be. From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | It took millions of people. |
| 0:21.0 | It took people working behind the scenes, people protesting on the streets for days and weeks and months and years. |
| 0:38.0 | And we achieved it. |
| 0:42.0 | WikiLeaks found... And we achieved it. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a free man, home in Australia. |
| 0:50.0 | Assange landed in the Australian capital of Canberra on a charter jet from Saipan where a US district court judge sentenced him to time served after he pled guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security |
| 1:05.9 | material. |
| 1:06.9 | We'll play excerpts of the news conference with his wife Stella and his lawyers and get response from London, from |
| 1:15.6 | Canberra and here in New York. Then at least 22 people have been killed in Kenya |
| 1:22.1 | as police opened fire Tuesday on a growing |
| 1:25.2 | protest movement against a bill to raise taxes. |
| 1:28.6 | The government did to deploy a lot of force on us it wasn't good. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah we are not happy about it because they killed our colleagues and fellow youths. |
| 1:41.0 | It's not okay. It's very bad we are demonstrating pushfilly it's |
| 1:46.0 | our rights to demonstrate human rights groups say more than 20 people at the |
| 1:50.8 | youth-led protests have disappeared since Monday. We'll go to Nairobi for the |
| 1:55.9 | latest among those we'll speak to President Obama's half-sister Alma Obama, who is tear-gassed at yesterday's protests. |
| 2:04.6 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:08.2 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 2:14.0 | Democracy Now. |
| 2:15.0 | The War and Peace Report. |
| 2:17.0 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
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