Democracy Now! 2025-03-07 Friday
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
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Headlines for March 07, 2025; “Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President”: Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address; Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts “Mathematically Impossible” Without Gutting Medicaid and More; Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.3 | And that Representative Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the |
| 0:24.3 | Speaker. |
| 0:28.7 | He did not obey. |
| 0:33.1 | After Democratic Congress member Al Green of Texas disrupted President Trump's joint address to Congress, |
| 0:40.9 | Green was censured by the House Thursday, as many of his fellow Democrats sang the civil rights anthem, |
| 0:47.8 | We shall overcome. We'll speak with Congress member Green on this 60th anniversary of the first Selma to Montgomery voting rights march known as Bloody Sunday when Alabama state troopers beat the protesters. |
| 1:03.6 | The march was led by someone who inspired Green, the late Congress member John Lewis. |
| 1:09.9 | Then as House Republicans push for $2 trillion in federal |
| 1:14.8 | spending cuts and more than $4 trillion in tax cuts for the richest Americans, we'll speak to |
| 1:21.3 | Bishop William Barber. If an unelected technocrat can delete the financial commitments of a government, |
| 1:30.8 | establish for the people and by the people, and we don't say anything, we betray our moral commitments to liberty. |
| 1:38.1 | And then we look at Nicaragua, which is withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council after a damning new report |
| 1:45.9 | criticizing human rights violations by President Daniel Ortega. |
| 1:50.0 | The man who once fought against a family dictatorship has now built one that is even more |
| 1:57.8 | grotesque. |
| 1:59.5 | We'll speak to veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. |
| 2:02.9 | Today marks 40 years since the release of his 1985 fact-finding report contra terror in Nicaragua. |
| 2:11.0 | All that and more coming out. |
| 2:17.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. President Trump announced Thursday. He's exempting his 25% tariffs from Mexican and Canadian goods that come under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, a trade pact that he signed in his first |
| 2:35.2 | term to replace NAFTA. |
| 2:36.9 | The exemptions in place until April 2nd for now and comes after Trump spoke with Mexican |
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