Headlines for June 26, 2024; “Julian Is Free”: Assange Back Home in Australia After Taking U.S. Plea Deal in “Espionage” Case; “A Big Deal”: Julian Assange’s Release Welcomed by Australian Senator After Grassroots Campaign; Julian Assange’s Release “Averted a Press Freedom Catastrophe” But Still Set Bad Precedent: Jameel Jaffer; Auma Obama, Sister of Pres. Obama, on Kenyan Police Attacks on Youth-Led Tax Protests, 22+ Killed
In Part 2 of our interview with acclaimed Polish filmmaker and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland, she discusses her new film, Green Border, and how she began her long career making movies that are based on true stories during the Holocaust.
Headlines for June 25, 2024; Julian Assange Is Free: WikiLeaks Founder’s Brother Gabriel Shipton on End of Decadelong Legal Saga; Press Freedom Advocates Celebrate Julian Assange’s Release, But Warn of Impact of Plea Deal; Journalist Antony Loewenstein on Assange’s Release, WikiLeaks & Israeli Drones Killing Gaza Reporters; NYC Congestion Pricing: Advocates Slam NY Gov for Halting Plan to Reduce Emissions, Fund Mass Transit
Headlines for June 24, 2024; AIPAC vs. Jamaal Bowman: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Pro-Israel Lobby Push to Defeat Pro-Ceasefire Lawmaker; “These Are Not Just Threats”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Project 2025 & Dangers of a Second Trump Term; Will Israel Expand Its War into Lebanon? Rami Khouri on Netanyahu’s Latest Threats; Meet Maha Hussaini, Gaza Journalist Whose Courage Award Was Rescinded After Pro-Israel Smear Campaign
Headlines for June 21, 2024; “The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault; “Green Border”: Agnieszka Holland’s New Film Shows “Impossible Choices” Facing Refugees in Europe
Headlines for June 20, 2024; Meet Nadia Milleron: Her Daughter Was Killed in 2019 Boeing Crash, Now She’s Running for Congress; Pentagon Ran a Secret Anti-Vax Campaign to Undermine China at the Height of the Pandemic: Reuters; First Illinois Latina Rep. Praises Biden’s New Immigration Executive Order But Slams Border Shutdown; “Congress Is Not for Sale”: Rep. Ramirez Slams AIPAC-Led Campaign Against Jamaal Bowman in NY Primary
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said; “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song
Headlines for June 18, 2024; Ahead of Juneteenth, Maryland Pardons 175K Pot Convictions, Seeking to Remedy Harms of War on Drugs; Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Loses Univ. of Minnesota Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide
Headlines for June 17, 2024; Report from Rafah: UNICEF Decries Israel’s “War on Children” as Starvation & Deaths Mount in Gaza; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump’s First Return to Capitol Hill Since Jan. 6 Cements His GOP “Stranglehold”; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Only a Two-State Solution Can End “Nightmare” of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Arundhati Roy Faces Anti-Terror Prosecution in India as Modi Expands Crackdown on Critics
Headlines for June 14, 2024; Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate; Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World
Headlines for June 13, 2024; Secret Recording of SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito Offers “Window” into His Conservative Ideology; ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage; From Gaza to Sudan, Number of Global Armed Conflicts Reach New Post-WWII High; Palestinian Diplomat: Gaza Ceasefire Only Possible Once Israel Commits to Ending the War
Headlines for June 12, 2024; Sarah Leah Whitson: U.S. Ceasefire Push in Gaza Is Welcome, But “40,000 Dead Palestinians Too Late”; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Convicted in Federal Gun Case, Faces Tax Evasion Trial Next; Bananas and Blood: Chiquita Ordered to Pay Colombian Families $38 Million for Backing Death Squads
Headlines for June 11, 2024; “Clear Shift” Toward the Far Right: Anti-Immigrant Nationalists Gain Ground Across Europe; Doctor Just Back from Gaza: The Health System Has Totally Collapsed Due to Israel’s Genocidal War; U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust
Headlines for June 10, 2024; Report from Gaza: “Devastating” Israeli Raid to Free 4 Israeli Hostages Kills 270+ Palestinians; “Massacre”: Analyst Slams Israeli Military Raid That Frees 4 Hostages, Kills 270+ Palestinians; “War Is Not the Answer”: Meet the Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed Oct. 7; “Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire Deal
The Grammy-nominated poet and activist aja monet recites her poem “cast away” in the Democracy Now! studio. She is the artistic creative director of V-Day’s Voices campaign and the developer of the new audio play VOICES: a sacred sisterscape.
Headlines for June 07, 2024; Israel’s Widespread Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon, Gaza Violates Int’l Law: Human Rights Watch; Deadly Heat: Record Scorching Temperatures Kill the Vulnerable, Worsen Inequality Across the Globe; ”VOICES: A Sacred Sisterscape”: Poet aja monet & V on New Audio Play Centering Black Women’s Stories
Headlines for June 06, 2024; “Apocalyptic”: 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on U.N. School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians in Gaza; “Where Olive Trees Weep”: Dr. Gabor Maté & Ashira Darwish on New Film Exploring Trauma in Palestine; “Propaganda Machine”: NY Congressmember Jamaal Bowman on AIPAC’s $25 Million Campaign to Unseat Him
Arizona-based journalist John Washington talks about his new book, The Case for Open Borders, as President Biden signs a new executive order temporarily closing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Headlines for June 05, 2024; “My Journey of Loss”: Gaza Twin on Death of Mom, 14 Relatives & Continuing to Flee Israeli Bombs; “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard; Biden Limits Asylum & Shuts Down Border for Migrants Ahead of Debate with Trump
Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo
adam meredith
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The Parenting Experience
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The Parenting Experience
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Max
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