Democracy Now! 2026-06-01 Monday
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for June 01, 2026; NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall; “We Closed Our Account”: Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails; “Revolving Door”: Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief; Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | We all need to do everything we can to cool things down now. |
| 0:23.6 | I will not give ICE the pretext to expand operations in our state. |
| 0:28.7 | For that reason, New Jersey law enforcement is today establishing a peaceful, protected |
| 0:34.8 | protest zone in the area right outside Delaney Hall. |
| 0:38.3 | New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl calls in New Jersey State Troopers outside the |
| 0:46.3 | geo-run, massive immigration jail, Delaney Hall, as the Newark Mayor implements a nightly curfew. |
| 0:55.7 | Inside the jail, detainees are on their 11th day of a hunger and labor strike. |
| 1:02.5 | We'll go to New Jersey for the latest. |
| 1:05.7 | Then de-ice Citizens Bank, a grassroots campaign focusing on the funders of private prisons is gaining momentum. |
| 1:15.7 | We'll speak with former Wall Street Journal and Business Week reporter Paul Barrett, |
| 1:22.6 | an Oscar-nominated filmmaker Julie Cohen. |
| 1:26.1 | We're protesting Citizens Bank. |
| 1:29.3 | We're shutting down our accounts at Citizens Bank because of their financing the private |
| 1:35.1 | prison companies behind Delaney Hall and other ICE detention that is responsible for so |
| 1:41.1 | much abuse of our immigrant neighbors. |
| 1:52.0 | And finally, three protesters in Spokane, Washington were found guilty of conspiracy after attending a protest outside an ICE jail. |
| 1:56.7 | My name is Beijing Malvallala. I'm an army veteran and regular guy. And I was just convicted of aiding and abetting a conspiracy for a peaceful protest that happened in Spokane, Washington, June 11, 2025. |
| 2:18.5 | We'll go to Spokane to speak with Vajan Mavala, as well as Aaron Glanz, who's reporting |
| 2:25.6 | this story for The Guardian. |
| 2:27.6 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:32.7 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
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