Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin's plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the 1990 police killing of Black teenager Phillip Pannell in Teaneck, New Jersey, for the Black Lives Matter movement today. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
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Police Should Not Kill Us: Phillip Pannell's Family Wants Officer Who Shot Him
in Back Held Responsible
Sept. 23, 2022
Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.
Donald Trump has two major legal setbacks related to his business and his handling of classified documents; Iranian protests grow over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody; The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. …
The head of Oxfam America calls for leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to address the global hunger emergency; Adnan Syed's first lawyer on how the "Serial" subject gained his freedom; Dissident heiress Abigail Disney on her new documentary, "The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales," about U.S. inequality and …
Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not "over," as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black …
We go to Puerto Rico for an update on damage from Hurricane Fiona; How the climate crisis has worsened the magnitude of tropical storms; What Black Britons think of mourning the queen. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Renowned Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, "The Myth of Normal," and the impact of trauma on people's health. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
A White House-brokered deal averts a national rail strike over grueling work conditions for tens of thousands of railroad workers; The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Pakistan nears 1,500; Russia continues to bomb civilian infrastructure following Ukraine's successful offensive in the Kharkiv region. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to …
Queen Elizabeth II's legacy in Ireland and the future of the Irish unification movement; War correspondent Luke Mogelson on his new book, "The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
The legacy of British colonialism in the Caribbean and growing calls for reparations; Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the energy war between Russia and the West; How the rivalry with China is transforming the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your …
The history of British colonialism in Africa, and Kenya in particular; The family of Carl Dorsey, an unarmed Black man shot by New Jersey police, files a civil lawsuit as they demand answers about his death; How privatization set the stage for the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. Get Democracy …
Author 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! …
The 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 …
An 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 …
Abolition Struggle Ongoing in Minneapolis 2 Years After Police Killed George
Floyd, Spurring Protests
May 25, 2022
Two 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.
Haitian 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 …
In 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 …
An 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
Nina 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
Progressives 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 …