Democracy Now! 2025-05-12 Monday
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
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Headlines for May 12, 2025; Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested for Visiting ICE Jail, Slams Trump Admin’s “Insane” Abuse of Power; “Un-American”: Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman on DHS Threats to Arrest Her for Visiting ICE Jail in Newark; Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for “War and Genocide” But Not for Healthcare?
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.9 | I didn't know that this morning, when I woke up, that I'll be in this detention facility |
| 0:22.0 | here, that I would end up incarcerated for something that I believe is my Democratic |
| 0:30.2 | right to show up and speak out against what I think was happening there, a violation of city and state laws, and a lack of transparency. |
| 0:43.3 | That's Newark Mayor Ross Baraka, the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey. |
| 0:49.2 | He was arrested Friday and detained by masked federal immigration police when he joined three Democratic Congress members set to tour a newly reopened private 1,000-bed immigration and customs enforcement jail. |
| 1:06.0 | We'll speak to Mayor Baraka as well as one of the three New Jersey Congress members who tried to prevent |
| 1:12.6 | his arrest, Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman. The 80-year-old cancer survivor now faces arrest |
| 1:20.0 | herself. Then to Abu Bakr Abed, the 22-year-old Palestinian accidental war correspondent, we last spoke to him in Gaza, suffering from malnutrition. |
| 1:33.6 | There's no food available. |
| 1:35.0 | All of people are being taken to the hospital to receive treatment where doctors cannot really give the proper treatment for them. |
| 1:43.4 | And the medication are not available. |
| 1:46.2 | It has been blocking the two crossings, not allowing a trickle, a one single track into Gaza, |
| 1:53.1 | and that has really left people on the cusp of imminent death. |
| 1:58.0 | As hunger engulfs the Gaza Strip, due to Israel's total blockade on aid, we speak with Abu Bakr Abed in Dublin, Ireland, which has given him a scholarship to study as he heals. |
| 2:14.5 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:20.2 | Welcome to Demo. Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:26.8 | A leading global hunger monitor is warning Gaza's entire population is facing a critical risk of famine, with over half a million |
| 2:36.7 | Palestinians already facing starvation. The report by the Integrated Food Security Phase |
| 2:43.4 | classification comes as Israel's full blockade of Gaza enters its 10th week. Over the weekend, |
| 2:50.2 | Israel carried out numerous strikes across the |
| 2:52.4 | Gaza Strip. Earlier today, Israel bombed a school-turned shelter in the Jabalya area, |
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