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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for October 07, 2025; “Trump’s Invasion”: Illinois Officials Denounce Troop Deployment to Chicago as ICE Escalates Raids; Report from Gaza: Israeli Bombardment Enters Third Year Despite Ceasefire Talks in Egypt; Maoz Inon Lost His Parents in the Oct. 7 Attack. Here’s Why He’s Still Calling for Peace.; “Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:19.5 | Since the beginning of this invasion, |
| 0:21.6 | families have been snatched up off the streets, |
| 0:24.6 | were removed from their homes, |
| 0:25.6 | zip tied and detained for hours, |
| 0:28.6 | including especially U.S. citizens |
| 0:30.6 | and legal residents of our state. |
| 0:33.6 | And in the words of CBP chief patrol agent Greg Bovino, they're being chosen by how they look. |
| 0:43.0 | Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's accused President Trump of launching an invasion by planning to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. |
| 0:52.6 | We'll speak to the ACLU of Illinois. Then today marks two years |
| 0:59.0 | since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. We'll speak to Israeli peace activist Mao Zinong. His parents |
| 1:07.0 | were killed in the attack. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm a peace activist. I lost my parents. |
| 1:12.6 | And I believe that peace is possible. |
| 1:14.6 | I know that peace is possible. |
| 1:16.6 | And this is what me and my partners, |
| 1:18.6 | Palestinian, Israeli partners, are working on now. |
| 1:21.6 | Day and night to bring peace to this level. |
| 1:25.6 | We'll also go to Gaza, where the official death toll has top 67,000 over the past two years, |
| 1:33.3 | though expected to be far higher with people and the rubble. |
| 1:37.3 | We'll speak to the Palestinian journalist Plessya Al-Aqad, author of the new, The Eyes of Gaza, A Diary of Resilience. |
| 1:48.0 | When you're inside Gaza during a genocide, you always wonder, what will kill me first? |
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