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🗓️ 17 November 2025
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Headlines for November 17, 2025; Report from COP30: Thousands March in Indigenous-Led Protest at Brazil Climate Talks “in Defense of Life”; Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil; “Just Transition”: Polluting Countries Must Take Responsibility for Extreme Climate Change
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| 0:00.0 | From Belain, Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon. |
| 0:23.0 | We're at COP 30, the UN Climate Summit. |
| 0:26.5 | This is Democracy Now. |
| 0:29.3 | One of the most important thing for me for this COP is the action and the solidarity that |
| 0:35.1 | we are building together as an indigenous leaders and land |
| 0:37.8 | defenders for different parts of the world. |
| 0:40.4 | Because we know that the answer is us. |
| 0:42.6 | We know that we are the lead alternatives. |
| 0:45.4 | We have the answers and we have the response for all the devastation and the destruction |
| 0:50.0 | for the climate crisis. |
| 0:53.0 | Tens of thousands of people marched in Belen, Brazil, Saturday, |
| 0:58.6 | in an indigenous-led protest calling for leaders at the UN Climate Summit |
| 1:03.6 | to take action to combat the climate crisis and protect the Amazon. |
| 1:09.3 | We'll air a report from the streets of Bel Berlin, then speak to the heads of Amazon Watch and |
| 1:15.9 | Oxfam Brazil? |
| 1:18.1 | The world needs to understand that Amazon is not only a word. |
| 1:22.9 | It's a real space that are right now facing consequence. All that and more coming up. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome to Democracy Now. |
| 1:44.7 | Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. |
| 1:47.7 | I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:49.4 | Bangladesh's former prime minister, Sheikh Hasino, was sentenced to death by a tribunal today |
| 1:55.4 | for ordering a deadly crackdown on student protesters who successfully toppled her government last year. |
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