“There is a very powerful change in the discourse of the government,” says historian Humberto Beck on the first few months with Mexico’s new leftist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Beck says that while López Obrador doesn’t want to openly confront Trump on stopping immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, “he knows that sending back migrants…
“Chicago voters made history Tuesday when Lori Lightfoot won a landslide victory as both the city’s first African-American woman mayor and openly gay mayor. This comes after a February runoff election that pitted her against Toni Preckwinkle, a former alderperson who is president of the Cook County Board. While Preckwinkle had been viewed as a…
“Albert Woodfox is a former political prisoner who was held in solitary confinement for 43 years until he won his freedom just over three years ago. Now he is traveling the world and joins us in studio to discuss his new memoir, “Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and…
“Stacy Bohlen of the National Indian Health Board breaks down how block grants for states to combat the opioid epidemic neglect Native communities. “The states are under no obligation to share any of that funding with tribes,” she says. “The number one disease that our people suffer from is anonymity or invisibility.” Democracy Now! is…
“Lakota historian Nick Estes says new efforts to fight climate change are inextricably linked to indigenous-led movements like the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock.” “In many ways, the United States, along with countries like Canada, drilled their way out of the Great Recession largely at the expense of indigenous lands,” he says. “When…
“The Trump administration has barred International Criminal Court investigators from entering the United States. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the U.S. will start denying visas to members of the ICC who may be investigating alleged war crimes by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. In September, national security adviser John Bolton threatened U.S….
“Rep. Ilhan Omar and her colleagues are changing “the politics of how this Congress is operating,” said Phyllis Bennis, who is on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. “This is not only about identity,” she said.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations…
“Extended conversation with Greg Grandin, author of the new book, “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.” Grandin is a professor at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and…
“We wanted to send a message to the ICE officers, Border Patrol: Every single time you detain somebody, could they be an infiltrator?” says Mohammad Abdollahi, an undocumented immigrants rights activist who starred in The Infiltrators, a film about organizing detainees in Florida’s Broward Transitional Facility. We spoke with the immigrant rights activist at the…
“The former chief medical officer of New York City jails has just published a remarkable new book about the health risks of incarceration. The book is titled “Life and Death in Rikers Island.” Dr. Homer Venters offers unprecedented insight into what happens inside prison walls to create new health risks for incarcerated men and women,…