Democracy Now! 2025-04-01 Tuesday
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 01, 2025; Workers vs. Musk: Federal Unions Resist Attacks on Bargaining Rights & Cuts to Essential Services; A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach “Powerful” Tentative Contract; “The Darkest Hour of Need”: Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake; “We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”: Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | The Trump administration just launched a direct attack on our union. |
| 0:24.6 | A new executive order that tries to illegally strip collective bargaining rights from |
| 0:31.0 | hundreds and thousands of federal workers. |
| 0:34.3 | Unions are calling President Trump's move to strip federal workers of collective bargaining |
| 0:41.5 | rights, the biggest attack on the labor movement in U.S. history. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll speak with AFGE union president Everett Kelly, head of the largest federal workers |
| 0:53.3 | union, which is also spearheading |
| 0:55.4 | resistance to cuts to federal agencies. |
| 0:58.6 | And we'll get an update on a major labor victory as the Chicago Teachers Union reaches a tentative |
| 1:04.2 | contract with Chicago public schools after more than a year of negotiations without a strike. |
| 1:09.8 | Then to Burma, where aid groups say there's still an urgent need for rescue, |
| 1:14.8 | shelter, food, and water after Friday's massive earthquake. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, somebody there? |
| 1:23.9 | We are stuck in here. |
| 1:25.2 | Please help us. |
| 1:26.2 | I beg you, please pull us out. |
| 1:28.3 | And finally, we look at the alarming rise in censorship on U.S. campuses and how New York University |
| 1:35.3 | canceled a presentation by the former international head of Doctors Without Borders. |
| 1:41.3 | They were a bit taken aback by my presentation. |
| 1:45.4 | They were actually concerned that, especially one slide, when I'm talking about |
| 1:50.4 | casualty into the humanitarian aid force last year in 2024, that they were mentioning |
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