Democracy Now! 2024-08-20 Tuesday
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
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Headlines for August 20, 2024; Thousands March on DNC in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza; First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party”; Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed; Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change; Muslim, Immigrant & Jewish Delegates Unfurl “Stop Arming Israel” Banner During Biden DNC Speech
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| 0:00.0 | From the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, this is Democracy Now, War Peace and the |
| 0:20.8 | presidency, Breaking with convention. |
| 0:25.0 | Let me know in my heart when my days are through. |
| 0:29.5 | America, America, I gave my best to you. |
| 0:35.0 | President Biden, on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, out on the streets of Chicago, |
| 0:41.0 | thousands marched against U.S. backing of Israel's war on Gaza. |
| 0:45.6 | We are here to make it clear that the people of the United States are not represented in that |
| 0:52.0 | DNC. That DNC convention is a coronation of war criminals. |
| 0:57.0 | And we are here to say that it is not with our consent, that are continuing to fund and provide weapons to the war |
| 1:07.0 | criminal of the state colonial state of Israel. |
| 1:11.0 | Meanwhile inside the convention the DNC holds the first ever |
| 1:17.2 | panel on Palestinian human rights. |
| 1:20.3 | If we remain silent and we become complicit, but if we stand up and demand action on |
| 1:29.0 | arms embargo, a ceasefire, an end to war, we may have an opportunity to restore the soul of the Democratic |
| 1:39.6 | Party. And we look at the life and legacy of pioneering TV host Bill Donahue. |
| 1:47.0 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:53.0 | War Peace and the Presidency. |
| 2:05.6 | We're breaking with Convention. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:08.6 | President Biden took to the stage and the first night of the Democratic National |
| 2:12.4 | Convention Monday where he passed |
| 2:14.0 | the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 2:17.0 | Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became when I became our nominee |
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