Democracy Now! 2025-02-19 Wednesday
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for February 19, 2025; “I Am Finally Free!”: Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned; Family Torn Apart as Mother & 2 Children Deported After Arizona Traffic Stop, 2 Other Kids Left Behind; GOP Pushes Drastic Cuts to Medicaid & Food Aid While Proposing Tax Cuts for Rich; To Fight the Trump/Musk Purge, Federal Workers Hold Nationwide Day of Action to “Save Our Services”
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to fight back. |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to continue until we are a free nation. |
| 0:24.3 | I gave 50 years for that. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm going to give the rest of my life. |
| 0:30.6 | They have not broke me. |
| 0:33.1 | I have not broken. |
| 0:35.1 | Leonard Peltier is finally free. |
| 0:38.0 | The 80-year-old indigenous leader walked out of prison in Florida Tuesday after nearly |
| 0:44.3 | half a century behind bars. |
| 0:46.9 | He's now back home in North Dakota on the tribal homelands of the Turtle Mountain Band |
| 0:52.3 | of Chippewa Indians. |
| 0:54.1 | We'll get the latest. Then to Arizona, |
| 0:57.2 | where a Venezuelan family has been torn apart after a mother of four was pulled over for driving |
| 1:03.2 | under the speed limit. She and two of her kids were quickly deported to Mexico, but her other children, |
| 1:10.3 | aged eight and 14, remain in Tucson. |
| 1:14.3 | Plus, we look at Republican plans that could result in 20 million people losing Medicaid coverage. |
| 1:21.7 | Today, he's going after USAID. |
| 1:24.7 | Trust me, tomorrow he will be going after the programs that impact you and your family. |
| 1:30.1 | That is Medicaid. That is Medicare. That is community health centers. That is education. |
| 1:35.9 | That is Pell Grants. That is affordable housing. And today, federal workers across the United States |
| 1:43.1 | are holding a Save Our Services day of action |
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