Democracy Now! 2026-05-29 Friday
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for May 29, 2026; “Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall; Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter’s Death in Boeing Crash; “It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | We, the detainees at the Delaney Hall detention facility, |
| 0:23.7 | wish to express our objection to the violation of our rights as immigrant human beings. |
| 0:31.6 | The company in charge, Gio, fails to meet the basic conditions necessary to protect our health and our lives. |
| 0:41.2 | Protesters outside Delaney Hall, the massive Newark Immigration Jail run by the for-profit |
| 0:47.2 | Geo Group, read a statement from the hunger and labor-striking detainees inside. |
| 0:58.7 | Ice agents tear gas protesters inside and out, |
| 1:05.9 | arresting six people outside. We'll go to New Jersey for the latest. Then a Chicago jury orders Boeing to pay nearly $50 million to the family of Samyostumo, 24-year-old grandniece of |
| 1:15.3 | Ralph Nader, who died in the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash in 2019. |
| 1:21.5 | It was one of the last verdicts in a series of wrongful death suits stemming from two deadly crashes in 2019 that |
| 1:30.2 | killed all 346 people on board. We'll be joined by Samia's mother, Nadja Miloran, from Massachusetts. |
| 1:39.3 | This is not an accident. This is something that could have been prevented. |
| 1:45.0 | And as somebody who's lost a dearest person in my life, you know, I, I want her death not to be in vain. |
| 1:54.0 | I don't want anybody else to die. |
| 1:56.0 | And finally to Bolivia, where thousands have been protesting for a month on the streets |
| 2:02.6 | of La Paz and other cities to demand the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. |
| 2:07.6 | The people are demanding from the grassroots from the blockade points that the president must resign for his incapacity to govern for all Bolivians. |
| 2:18.3 | The president only governs for one sector, the elite in Santa Cruz. |
| 2:22.3 | Therefore, this fight is for the common good and for the national interest and for our future generations. |
| 2:28.3 | All that and more, coming up. |
| 2:40.3 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:42.0 | Vice President J.D. Vance says the U.S. is very close to a memorandum of understanding |
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