Democracy Now! Video
811 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 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! 2022-06-21 Tuesday
June 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 276 MB VideoAs voters make history in Colombia, we speak to people on the ground about the significance of the presidential election and reair interviews with Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, who will be the country’s first leftist president and the first Black vice president. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-20 Monday
June 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 168 MB VideoA Juneteenth special with Clint Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Craig Steven Wilder.
Democracy Now! 2022-06-17 Friday
June 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 183 MB VideoThe U.K. approves Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges; Highlights from the third public January 6 hearing in Congress; The Poor People’s Moral March this Saturday will bring thousands to the Capitol as the U.S. faces its worst inflation in decades with skyrocketing food, gas and energy prices. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-16 Thursday
June 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 226 MB VideoThe Biden administration announces a new $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine; Hate crimes and legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community rise across the U.S.; An organizer who skipped a White House Pride Month celebration says the administration must stop the detention and deportation of LGBTQ immigrants and asylum seekers. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-15 Wednesday
June 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 200 MB VideoHistorian and “Watergate: A New History” author Garrett Graff on the break-in 50 years ago this week and lessons from the Watergate hearings for the House January 6 committee; Veteran labor journalist Steven Greenhouse on Biden’s address to the AFL-CIO convention and the latest on unionizing drives at Amazon and Starbucks and throughout the economy; Biden plans to visit Saudi Arabia despite his pledge to treat the kingdom like a “pariah.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Si...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-14 Tuesday
June 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 181 MB VideoHighlights from the second public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-13 Monday
June 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB VideoWe spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who has just published a revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-10 Friday
June 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB VideoWe recap the first public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-09 Thursday
June 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 182 MB VideoThe United Nations demands an independent investigation into charges of rape and sexual assault committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine; The House committee investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the deadly January 6 insurrection holds its first public hearing Thursday evening. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-08 Wednesday
June 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 191 MB VideoVoters in San Francisco recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin after a well-funded opposition campaign by the real estate industry and others; Latin American leaders boycott the Summit of the Americas after Biden excludes Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; An Amazonian Indigenous leader is blocked from the summit; British journalist and Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples are missing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest after documenting illegal fishing and mining in the area. Get Democr...
From Prison to the Newsroom: Keri Blakinger, Formerly Incarcerated Reporter, On Her New Memoir & More
June 07, 2022 12:00 VideoIn an extended, in-depth interview we speak with criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink.”
From Prison to the Newsroom: Keri Blakinger, Formerly Incarcerated Reporter, on Her New Memoir & More
June 07, 2022 12:00 VideoIn an extended, in-depth interview, we speak with criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink.”
Democracy Now! 2022-06-07 Tuesday
June 07, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 204 MB VideoBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly survives a vote of no confidence; Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez says police are covering up what happened in Uvalde, and reporters say police and biker gangs are blocking them from covering funerals of the mass shooting victims; Investigative reporter Keri Blakinger on her new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” about her journey from addiction and prison to recovery and the newsroom. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the ...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-06 Monday
June 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 194 MB VideoKatrina vanden Heuvel says we need a real debate on the Ukraine war; The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection will hold its first public hearing this Thursday; Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch on how shooters wielding semiautomatic rifles massacred at least three in the city Saturday; A landmark California task force report calls for reparations to descendants of enslaved people. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: de...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-03 Friday
June 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 184 MB VideoPresident Biden calls on Congress to enact new gun control measures; San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on fighting the recall election to unseat him and end his progressive policies on social justice reform; The Biden administration wipes the debts of former students at Corinthian Colleges, but has not yet moved on wider student debt forgiveness. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-02 Thursday
June 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 201 MB VideoAnatol Lieven on how the U.S. can avoid Cold War mistakes in a standoff with Russia; How the U.S. is exporting its gun violence through massive arms sales to other countries; The climate emergency and war in Ukraine lead to a devastating hunger crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-01 Wednesday
June 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 146 Bytes VideoInvestigative journalist Frank Smyth on the NRA and the power of the gun lobby; Adel Al Manthari was hit by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, and supporters are raising money for lifesaving surgery in lieu of help from the Pentagon; a new campaign targets racist Supreme Court rulings used to justify discrimination against people in Puerto Rico and U.S.-occupied territories. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-31 Tuesday
May 31, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 250 MB VideoThe Texas senator for Uvalde on calls for stricter gun control after the massacre at Robb Elementary School; A Pulse nightclub survivor says police took three hours to break in after the 2016 attack left 49 dead, and are ill-equipped to stop mass shooters; Leftist Gustavo Petro wins in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with a right-wing business leader compared to Trump. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-30 Monday
May 30, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 174 MB VideoA special broadcast featuring Michele Goodwin, author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood”; Rep. Lucy McBath; and ACLU attorney and trans activist Chase Strangio.
Democracy Now! 2022-05-27 Friday
May 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 238 MB VideoAuthor and journalist Mark Follman on how behavioral threat assessment can prevent mass shootings; Longtime Minneapolis activist and Councilmember Robin Wonsley Worlobah on stalled police abolition two years after the murder of George Floyd; an update on evacuation efforts in the Donbas region as Russian shelling continues Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-26 Thursday
May 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB VideoThe massacre at Robb Elementary School increases pressure for gun control; How Australia passed sweeping new gun control measures after a mass shooting; DHS says it will try to pause immigration enforcement in Uvalde after the Robb Elementary School massacre; Journalist Patrick Cockburn on continued fighting in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-25 Wednesday
May 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 191 MB VideoAn 18-year-old gunman kills 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We speak with Nicole Golden of Texas Gun Sense, The Trace reporter Mike Spies, and Parkland H.S. victim father and activist Manuel Oliver. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Abolition Struggle Ongoing in Minneapolis 2 Years After Police Killed George Floyd, Spurring Protests
May 25, 2022 12:00 VideoTwo years after the police killing George Floyd, we go to Minneapolis to speak with Robin Wonsley Worlobah, longtime activist who is now the city’s first Black democratic socialist city councilmember.
Democracy Now! 2022-05-24 Tuesday
May 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 225 MB VideoHaitian American historian Westenley Alcenat and Prof. Gerald Horne respond to The New York Times series “The Ransom,” which details how Haiti became one of the poorest countries in the world while bankers in France and the United States made a fortune; President Biden is in Tokyo to meet with leaders from the “Quad” in efforts to counter China’s power and makes confusing comments on U.S. policy on Taiwan. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-23 Monday
May 23, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 195 MB VideoIn a “Green Wave,” Australian voters elect the Labor Party’s Anthony Albanese and end a decade of conservative rule; “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” is a new book on Floyd’s life and legacy published two years after his death at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked a global uprising against racism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-20 Friday
May 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 205 MB VideoAn update from the grieving Buffalo community after last weekend’s white supremacist massacre; reproductive rights groups face a major setback as Oklahoma imposes one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-19 Thursday
May 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 194 MB VideoNina Khrushcheva on Russia’s war in Ukraine; Gun control advocates say stricter rules may have prevented the Buffalo shooter’s killing spree; Chileans rewrite their country’s Pinochet-era constitution. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-18 Wednesday
May 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 201 MB VideoProgressives win big in Tuesday’s primary elections despite opposition from within the Democratic Party, as well as deep-pocketed outside groups, say journalist David Sirota and progressive champion Nina Turner; U.S. journalist William Nessen reports from the frontline of the war in eastern Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-17 Tuesday
May 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 191 MB VideoColor of Change’s Rashad Robinson on social media’s role in the Buffalo massacre and the propagation of extremism; Journalist Talia Lavin on how the gunman’s hateful ideology reflects hateful rhetoric found in online chatrooms she reports on; The role of monopolies in the U.S. baby formula shortage. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-16 Monday
May 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB VideoIndia Walton in Buffalo responds to the mass shooting at a grocery store that targeted the Black community; the spread of white nationalist conspiracy theories and Fox News host Tucker Carlson and their relation to mass shootings; Ibram X. Kendi on antiracist education; We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman on the racist history of anti-abortion movements and what lawmakers must do to protect reproductive healthcare. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-13 Friday
May 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 195 MB VideoIndigenous writer and historian Nick Estes on a new report by the Interior Department that says at least 500 Indigenous children died at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government; Calls grow for President Biden to grant clemency to imprisoned Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier; Journalists in Mexico are being killed with impunity in record numbers; European peace activists oppose Finland’s plans to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Get Democracy Now! delivered ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-12 Thursday
May 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 184 MB VideoPalestinians mourn and protest the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov on the Russian invasion; A conversation with 2021 Nobel Literature Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-11 Wednesday
May 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 204 MB VideoAl Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank; Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa on the return of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines; Workers at Starbucks and Amazon who say they were fired for organizing are fighting to get their jobs back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-10 Tuesday
May 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 218 MB VideoSri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after weeks of mass protests over the country’s economic crisis; The podcast “Suave” wins a Pulitzer Prize; Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book “Bad Mexicans” tells the untold story of the Mexican Revolution and its relation to U.S. imperialism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-09 Monday
May 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 208 MB VideoU.S. lawmakers are openly calling the fighting in Ukraine a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia; Alabama becomes the first state to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to trans youth; The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin wins a historic number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-06 Friday
May 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 194 MB VideoThe World Health Organization says the true death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is nearly 15 million people, with nearly 5 million deaths in India alone; Reproductive rights scholar Michele Goodwin on how a ban on abortion in rape and incest cases hurts the survivors. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Policing the Womb: Michele Goodwin Takes on Anti-Abortion Laws, Lays Out Reproductive New Deal
May 06, 2022 12:00 VideoIn an in-depth interview with Michele Goodwin, she discusses her book, “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” and lays out a “Reproductive New Deal.”
Democracy Now! 2022-05-05 Thursday
May 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 177 MB VideoHow the Russian war in Ukraine is exacerbating world hunger, especially for African countries reliant on wheat imports and where food insecurity is already dire; The European Union vows to ban Russian oil imports by the end of the year; Historian Timothy Snyder on why Russia’s war in Ukraine is a colonial war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-04 Wednesday
May 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoWe speak with an abortion doctor and a reproductive rights activist facing deportation about how to protect access to abortion; The role of dark money in placing anti-abortion justices on the high court; What can we learn from the Ohio primaries for House and Senate races where a Trump-backed candidate won and a progressive Democrat lost amid a wave of outside attacks. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-03 Tuesday
May 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 196 MB VideoA leaked majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion; CodePink’s Medea Benjamin and the Quincy Institute’s George Beebe on the war in Ukraine and the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-02 Monday
May 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 228 MB VideoA record-breaking heat wave hits India and Pakistan as summer arrives early due in part to the climate crisis; One in five reptile species risk extinction; Update on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and its impact on support for crises in other parts of the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-29 Friday
April 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB VideoRussian missiles fly over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, raising fears of a nuclear disaster; Science writer Ed Yong on why future pandemics are more likely, due to the climate crisis; The landmark 1979 labor documentary “The Wobblies” is rereleased in high definition and entered into the Library of Congress. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-28 Thursday
April 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 200 MB VideoA Harvard report details the school’s deep ties to slavery; After a U.S. prisoner swap with Russia this week, calls grow for the Biden administration to secure the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia since February; Anatol Lieven on the dangers of a U.S. proxy war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-27 Wednesday
April 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 229 MB VideoU.S. lawmakers push for Puerto Rico’s self-determination; Asylum seekers could see better conditions if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy; Historian Alfred McCoy on how to end the war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-26 Tuesday
April 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 206 MB VideoCuba and the U.S. hold their highest-level talks in four years; Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is set to buy Twitter for $44 billion; Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger on leaving house arrest after nearly 1,000 days. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-25 Monday
April 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 233 MB VideoFrench President Emmanuel Macron wins reelection against far-right leader Marine Le Pen; Redistricting in Florida all but guarantees Republicans four more seats in Congress while cutting seats of Black Democrats; Legislative attacks on LGBTQ rights proliferate across the U.S., and some Democratic lawmakers are pushing back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-22 Friday
April 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 226 MB VideoWe mark Earth Day with a look at why the U.S. must reconsider its heavy reliance on Russian and Ukrainian dirty steel; The director of “Powerlands,” a new documentary on Indigenous movements against environmental catastrophe across the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-21 Thursday
April 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoWe speak with a Ukrainian democratic socialist; Tony Wood on how average Russians are paying the price for Vladimir Putin’s gamble; Why the Donbas region is pivotal to the outcome of the war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Update on Ukraine's Donbas, Under Heavy Attack, & What a Peaceful Resolution Could Look Like
April 21, 2022 12:00 VideoIn an extended conversation, we get an update on the Donbas part of Ukraine, where thousands of civilians are reportedly trapped.
Democracy Now! 2022-04-20 Wednesday
April 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 235 MB VideoSecurity deteriorates in Afghanistan under Taliban rule as a boys’ school in Kabul is bombed; U.S. border officials allow Ukrainian refugees to enter while holding back asylum seekers from Haiti, Central America and elsewhere; Texas plans to execute Melissa Lucio despite claims she is innocent, amid bipartisan calls to save her life. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe