Democracy Now! Audio
820 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsDemocracy Now! is an independent daily TV & radio news program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We provide daily global news headlines, in-depth interviews and investigative reports without any advertisements or government funding. Our programming shines a spotlight on corporate and government abuses of power and lifts up the stories of ordinary people working to make change in extraordinary times. Democracy Now! is live weekdays at 8am ET and available 24/7 through our website and podcasts.
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Democracy Now! 2020-06-30 Tuesday
June 30, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIn the first big abortion ruling of the Trump era, the Supreme Court strikes down a restrictive Louisiana law; NAACP President Derrick Johnson on Trump, Facebook and Mississippi retiring its Confederate state flag; Occupy City Hall protests in New York.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-29 Monday
June 29, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs coronavirus cases top 10 million worldwide, we talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Laurie Garrett; calls grow for justice for Elijah McClain, victim of police killing; Louisiana environmental activists face terror charges for protesting.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-26 Friday
June 26, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Supreme Court rules the U.S. can fast-track deportations of asylum seekers; Controversy grows over police use of facial recognition technology; Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $2.1 billion for its talcum products contaminated with asbestos.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-25 Thursday
June 25, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe coronavirus pandemic is devastating the hemisphere's two largest countries, the United States and Brazil; Rev. William Barber on the Poor People's Campaign's call for a moral revival.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-24 Wednesday
June 24, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJamaal Bowman is set to out Rep. Eliot Engel in a progressive victory; Noura Erakat on Israel's plan to annex the West Bank as Israeli forces fatally shot her cousin; Black Lives Matter protests are changing sports; COVID-19 spreads in San Quentin prison.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-23 Tuesday
June 23, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump targets anti-fascists but ignores violent far-right groups despite a series of arrests of neo-Nazis; primary voters face long lines amid record turnout; a Dallas protester lost his eye when police shot him in the face with a less-than-lethal weapon.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-22 Monday
June 22, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump ousts a U.S. attorney who led investigations into his allies; Trump’s racist remarks at his poorly attended Tulsa rally draw outrage; As five men are found hanging amid mass protests, we talk to a filmmaker who examines the history of lynchings.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-19 Friday
June 19, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIn an immigrant rights victory, the Supreme Court blocks Trump's attempt to end DACA; Calls grow to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; Before Trump's Tulsa rally, we look at the city's racist history from the 1921 race massacre to today's police killings.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-18 Thursday
June 18, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProsecutors charge the Atlanta cop who shot Rayshard Brooks with murder; "Cops" and "Live PD" are cancelled; Tear gas fuels police abuse; Seattle City Council bans police use of tear gas as Trump calls for a crackdown on the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-17 Wednesday
June 17, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump plans a massive rally in Tulsa amid a COVID uptick, site of the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre; Moves to privatize Puerto Rico's electric grid as hurricane season begins; Insurgent candidate Jamaal Bowman challenges establishment Rep. Eliot Engel.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-16 Tuesday
June 16, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIn a historic decision, the Supreme Court rules employers cannot fire workers for being gay or transgender; We look at the Black Trans Lives Matter movement; Artist Bree Newsome Bass on the significance of monuments to white supremacy being removed.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-15 Monday
June 15, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests erupt after a white police officer in Atlanta killed Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed Black man; police in San Jose shoot an anti-bias trainer in the groin with a rubber bullet; A New York police officer is charged for violently shoving a protester.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-12 Friday
June 12, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs protests against police brutality and racism continue across the globe, we spend the hour with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. She discusses the historic protests, police abolition, the removal of racist statues, the 2020 race and more.
Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
June 12, 2020 12:00Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis.
Seattle Activists Create Autonomous Zone Near Abandoned Police Precinct After Days of State Violence
June 11, 2020 12:00We continue our interview with Seattle-based citizen journalist Omari Salisbury, who has been live-streaming the uprising and police crackdown there.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-11 Thursday
June 11, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs U.S. COVID cases top 2 million we speak with ER doctor Craig Spencer; George Floyd's brother testifies on Capitol Hill; historian Robin D.G. Kelley examines the momentum for change; we speak with a citizen journalist livestreaming the Seattle uprising.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-10 Wednesday
June 10, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteExcerpts from George Floyd's funeral service; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of "The Condemnation of Blackness," on the history of policing; A fellow activist speaks about Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old peace activist assaulted by Buffalo police.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-09 Tuesday
June 09, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteICE agents target people at police brutality protests; the community occupies a Minneapolis hotel to provide shelter to 200 unhoused people; a subway worker worries about safety as New York City reopens the nation's largest public transportation system.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-08 Monday
June 08, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Minneapolis City Council announces it will move to dismantle the police department; We look at the growing movement to defund the police with professor Alex Vitale who wrote "The End of Policing," author Mychal Denzel Smith and activist Linda Sarsour.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-05 Friday
June 05, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThousands gather for memorial services for George Floyd; New evidence emerges in the Ahmaud Arbery case; Black filmmaker Chris Frierson films himself being pepper-sprayed by NYPD at a BLM protest; Author Stuart Schrader on U.S. police militarization.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-04 Thursday
June 04, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAll four police officers are charged with murder or aiding and abetting murder in George Floyd's death; activist Tamika Mallory on protests and police militarization; Louisville calls for justice in the police killings of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-03 Wednesday
June 03, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs 60,000 call for justice for George Floyd in Houston, his hometown, we speak to two of his friends and hear him in his own words; Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. was killed by police in 2011, now a judge says his family can sue for excessive use of force.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-02 Tuesday
June 02, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Trump threatens to send armed troops into the streets to quell a nationwide protest against police brutality; Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors calls to defund the police; two autopsies affirm George Floyd's death was a homicide.
"We Still Don't Have Justice": Bakari Sellers on Enduring Systemic Racism & Healthcare Disparities
June 01, 2020 12:00Attorney and political commentator Bakari Sellers recounts the United States’ long history of systemic racism, and the racial disparities that have endured and made COVID-19 disproportionately deadly for Black Americans.
Democracy Now! 2020-06-01 Monday
June 01, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs hundreds of thousands of protesters shut down cities across the U.S. to demand justice for the police killing of George Floyd, we hear voices from the streets and speak with professors Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Cornel West and attorney Bakari Sellers.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-29 Friday
May 29, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests in Minneapolis and nationwide continue over the police killing of George Floyd; Police violence is on the rise in Latin America, the new pandemic epicenter; Trump signs an executive order to punish social media companies for monitoring content.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-28 Thursday
May 28, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests continue in Minneapolis amid calls to file murder charges against the police officer who killed unarmed Black man, George Floyd; We celebrate the life and legacy of Larry Kramer, the trailblazing writer and AIDS activist who helped start ACT UP.
If We Don't Fight Back, We Die: Larry Kramer's Full Speech at the 2019 Queer Liberation March
May 28, 2020 12:00Upon the death of trailblazing AIDS activist Larry Kramer, we feature one of his last major speeches, at the 2019 anti-corporate Queer Liberation March.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-27 Wednesday
May 27, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIbram X. Kendi on the police killing of unarmed Black man, George Floyd, the viral video of a white woman threatening a Black Central Park birder, and the new COVID Racial Data Tracker; Two die from COVID in ICE custody as calls grow to release detainees.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-26 Tuesday
May 26, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWe look at the pandemic's devastating impact on Brazil's Indigenous peoples, who are dying at double the rate of the rest of the country; New Zealand, which implemented one of the earliest lockdowns, has largely succeeded in eliminating the coronavirus.
As New Zealand Eliminates COVID, Epidemiologist Says "We Look at Trump's Behavior & We're Horrified"
May 26, 2020 12:00We continue our interview with an epidemiologist in New Zealand about how the country’s response compares to government actions in the United States and worldwide.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-25 Monday
May 25, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSpecial broadcast: We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky as he discusses President Trump's disastrous coronavirus response, his threats against China and the World Health Organization, and much more.
Mike Davis: As Workers Face Dangerous Conditions Amid Reopening, We Need Unions & Medicare for All
May 22, 2020 12:00“A volcanic rage is rapidly rising to the surface in this country,” says historian Mike Davis, “and we need to harness it to defend and build unions, ensure Medicare for all, and knock the bastards off their gilded thrones.”
Democracy Now! 2020-05-22 Friday
May 22, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAuthorities arrest a third White man for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery; We speak with renowned Indian journalist P. Sainath; As all 50 states partially reopen this weekend, historian Mike Davis says, "Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell."
Democracy Now! 2020-05-21 Thursday
May 21, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe get an update from Bangladesh, where a cyclone threatens a camp, home to 1 million Rohingya refugees, and look at COVID-19's threat to refugees across the globe; a new report finds 1 million children face death from the pandemic's secondary impacts.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-20 Wednesday
May 20, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteReverend William Barber calls for a Mass Poor People's Assembly on June 20; New York City shuts down its subways overnight, removing people who rely on the trains for shelter; a largely immigrant public elementary school fights demolition in New Jersey.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-19 Tuesday
May 19, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteStates begin to reopen even as U.S. deaths from the coronavirus top 90,000; The pandemic batters journalism, with at least 36,000 media workers experiencing layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts since the start of the outbreak.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-18 Monday
May 18, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHow will the pandemic end, and how will the world look when it's over? We spend the hour with renowned medical historian Frank Snowden, author of the new book "Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present."
Democracy Now! 2020-05-15 Friday
May 15, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAmid the pandemic, calls grow to halt deportations to Guatemala and Haiti; the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that may shape the outcome of future presidential elections; we look at voting by mail and whether democracy can survive the pandemic.
Last Words to Comfort the Dying: "Thank You. Please Forgive Me. I Forgive You. I Love You. Goodbye."
May 14, 2020 12:00We look at solutions and strategies for families when their loved ones are forced to battle COVID alone in hospitals or at home.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-14 Thursday
May 14, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIs the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? We talk to psychology professor and writer Andrew Solomon; Renowned palliative care specialist Dr. Diane Meier on the pandemic's impact on families when loved ones must battle COVID alone.
Last Words to Comfort the Dying: "Thank you. Please forgive me. I forgive you. I love you. Goodbye."
May 14, 2020 12:00We look at solutions and strategies for families when their loved ones are forced to battle COVID alone in hospitals or at home.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-13 Wednesday
May 13, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe spend the hour with author and journalist Naomi Klein looking at the emerging "pandemic shock doctrine," lawmakers' calls for more surveillance and how Big Tech stands to profit from the coronavirus outbreak.
Adriana Gallardo: From Crossing the Border as an Undocumented Child to Winning the Pulitzer Prize
May 12, 2020 12:00We continue our interview with Adriana Gallardo, engagement reporter at ProPublica, who just won a Pulitzer Prize.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-12 Tuesday
May 12, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTwo Sioux tribes defy the South Dakota governor's orders to remove coronavirus checkpoints; 70 of the first 100 coronavirus deaths in Chicago were Black people; We speak with Adriana Gallardo about a ProPublica report on New York City essential workers.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-11 Monday
May 11, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteBlack and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City's coronavirus response, and protests are banned; A Trump Death Clock billboard goes up in Times Square to mark the toll of government inaction.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-08 Friday
May 08, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTwo white men are charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, more than two months after his killing; The pandemic hits African Americans hardest. We speak with NYT Magazine's Linda Villarosa; Dr. Leana Wen on what the U.S. faces as states begin to reopen.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-07 Thursday
May 07, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe get an update from Moscow on the pandemic in Russia, which has the second-highest infection rate in the world; We look at who gets access to drugs like remdesivir being developed by pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which is poised to make massive profits.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-06 Wednesday
May 06, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs President Trump starts to reopen the country, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett predicts the pandemic will last at least 36 months; Did a former Green Beret mastermind a failed coup attempt in Venezuela? Two Americans were arrested.
Democracy Now! 2020-05-05 Tuesday
May 05, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAs the Navajo Nation suffers the third most COVID-19 cases, we talk to the partner of a 28-year-old victim and doctors treating patients; 80 percent of prisoners at Marion prison test positive; Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the case for prison abolition.