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🗓️ 12 January 2026
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Headlines for January 12, 2026; Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack; “We Had Whistles. They Had Guns”: Nationwide Protests Held over ICE Killing of Renee Good; “All the Walls Came Down”: L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:16.0 | I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, |
| 0:21.6 | we will get involved. We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. And that doesn't mean |
| 0:26.6 | boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts. President Trump's |
| 0:31.0 | threatening to attack Iran. If security forces there continue to use deadly force to crush anti-government protests. |
| 0:40.3 | But Trump also says Iran wants to meet for negotiations. |
| 0:44.7 | We'll speak to the brother of Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate, Nargis Mohamedi. |
| 0:49.8 | She was sent back to prison a month ago. |
| 0:52.6 | Then to Minneapolis. |
| 0:56.1 | Over the weekend, there were over a thousand protests across the country against ICE following the killing of Renee Good. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah, I mean, it's just the pure unadulterated violence and lack of care from these ICE |
| 1:08.2 | agents that are being deplored, but it's evil Nazi |
| 1:10.8 | immigrant administration. |
| 1:13.5 | Coming here means a lot because it could be any of us. |
| 1:16.3 | Any of us could be taken, black-bagged, you know, murdered as we saw with Renee Good. |
| 1:19.9 | So coming out here, bringing a community to this movement is super important to get ICE out |
| 1:24.8 | of Minnesota. |
| 1:26.6 | We'll go to Minneapolis to speak with a civil rights |
| 1:30.0 | attorney, Nakima Levy Armstrong, founder of the racial justice network. Then all the walls |
| 1:38.3 | came down. We look at a new short documentary by filmmaker Andy Timiner on last year's devastating fires in Los Angeles that destroyed her home and left her beloved town of Altadena in ruins. |
| 1:55.5 | Wow. |
| 1:57.0 | It says unsafe, it says it right there, you see it? |
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