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Democracy Now! 2024-07-05 Friday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

“The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Birding While Black & the Central Park Incident

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:17.0

Those violations of humanitarian law, the violations of the right to life, all the instruments that we've established in 1948 so far have

0:28.0

proven to be frankly useless.

0:33.0

We are really as close to the habits as we have ever been.

0:39.0

The night won't end.

0:41.0

A new Al Jazeera documentary follows three Palestinian families in Gaza.

0:46.0

Takes an in-depth look at attacks on civilians by the Israeli military and the U.S.

0:51.9

role in the war.

0:53.6

We'll play excerpts and speak with journalists

0:56.0

who made the film, director Kavita Chakuru

0:58.8

and correspondent Shrifah Gokudu's.

1:01.4

Then Birding Wall Black, New York City's chapter of the Audubon Society

1:06.7

has officially changed its name to the NYC Bird Alliance. John Audubon, the founding father of American Birding, was a slaveholder.

1:17.2

We speak to Christian Cooper, a black birder, an LGBTQ activist.

1:23.0

It was four years ago

1:24.0

when a white woman in Central Park

1:26.0

called 911

1:28.0

claiming Cooper was threatening her life

1:30.0

after he asked her to leash her dog.

1:32.8

She told me first, I'm going to call the police and tell them an African-American man is threatening my life.

1:39.0

And of course, you know, I'm like, whoa, you know, I'm not an idiot. I've grown up as a black man in America my whole life I know this is a world of hurt

1:46.8

potentially coming my way but you know I just I'm not gonna I'm not gonna acquiescece to this and let this intimidate me.

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