Democracy Now! 2024-08-09 Friday
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 09, 2024; “New Dawn” in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests; “Uncommitted” Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing VP for Arms Embargo on Israel; NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I want to express my gratitude and praise the youths who have made this possible. |
| 0:24.4 | They have protected this country and given it a rebirth and we wish for this new Bangladesh to progress with speed. |
| 0:31.6 | Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammed Yunus has sworn in as head of Bangladesh's caretaker government |
| 0:37.5 | just days after student-led protests ousted the Prime Minister. |
| 0:42.1 | We'll go to Dhaka. |
| 0:43.8 | Then, as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris |
| 0:47.7 | faces pressure to define her platform on Palestine, |
| 0:51.7 | we'll speak with Leila Elabet, co-chair of the Uncommitted National Movement, |
| 0:57.0 | who spoke with Harris in Michigan. |
| 0:59.0 | I was thinking of my community members who are losing hundreds of their family members. |
| 1:05.2 | And I told the BP Harris that. I said, Michigan voters right now want a way to support you, |
| 1:11.9 | but we can't do that without a policy change that saves lives in the |
| 1:16.2 | vase of right now. |
| 1:18.2 | Then press freedom groups express alarm over felony hate crime charges brought against accredited photojournalist Samuel |
| 1:27.1 | Salicsson after New York police claim he filmed pro-Palestinian activists hurling red paint during a protest. |
| 1:35.4 | We'll speak with Seligson's lawyer. |
| 1:38.2 | It is an extremely concern of assault on the First Amendment. |
| 1:41.8 | The reason why the freedom of press is so strongly protected |
| 1:44.8 | is because there's some underlying belief |
| 1:46.8 | that in order for the public to meaningfully participate in a democracy, |
| 1:50.6 | they must be actually informed. All that and more coming up. |
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