Democracy Now! 2024-08-21 Wednesday
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Headlines for August 21, 2024; As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks; Trump & Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change; At DNC, Michelle & Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump’s “Same Old Con”; The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a “Tipping Point for Our Democracy”: Michele Goodwin; What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel; Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. From the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, this is Democracy Now. War, peace, and the presidency. |
| 0:23.5 | We're breaking with convention. |
| 0:25.9 | They understand that we can secure our borders |
| 0:30.4 | without tearing kids away from their parents. |
| 0:33.0 | Immigration is one of the biggest issues of the 2024 race and has been a hot topic at both the Democratic and Republican conventions will host a round table discussion. |
| 0:46.4 | But first, Israel's war on Gaza has been mentioned only in passing on the main stage at the DNC. |
| 0:55.0 | I serve humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now. |
| 1:00.0 | Ten! And then the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally finally |
| 1:10.6 | finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war. |
| 1:16.0 | Secretary of State Anthony Blanken ended his ninth visit to the Middle East since October without securing any breakthrough for a ceasefire deal. |
| 1:26.0 | We'll get the latest. |
| 1:27.6 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
| 1:33.0 | Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org. War Peace and the Presidency. We're breaking with |
| 1:47.2 | Convention. I'm Amy Goodman. In Chicago, Night 2 of the Democratic National Convention centered around |
| 1:53.7 | Kamala Harris's sweeping economic proposals which includes addressing the |
| 1:58.5 | housing crisis cancelling medical debt and banning grocery price gouging. |
| 2:03.6 | Democrats held a ceremonial roll call to nominate Kamala Harris as President |
| 2:10.1 | and Governor Walls as Vice President. |
| 2:13.2 | She accepted the nomination virtually in Milwaukee where she and |
| 2:17.5 | walls addressed a packed arena, the same site where the RNC was held last |
| 2:22.3 | month. The second night of the DNC in |
| 2:25.1 | Chicago was headlined by former First Lady Michelle Obama and |
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