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Will Title X Funding Ban Shutter Abortion Clinics?
GUEST: Jessica Mason Pieklo is Vice President of Law and the Courts at Rewire.News BACKGROUND: The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin immediately enforcing its ban on health clinics that receive tax…
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Eric Garner Family Outraged DOJ Won’t Prosecute His Death by Police
It’s been five years since Eric Garner, an African-American father of six, was killed when a white New York City police officer wrestled him to the ground and applied a fatal chokehold. While Garner, who…
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Worker Strikes and Calls for Boycott on Amazon Prime Day
GUEST: Valerie Vande Panne, writing fellow and chief correspondent at Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Sunday Magazine,…
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How Mass Surveillance Targets Muslim People
The age of mass surveillance is even worse for Muslim people who face additional worries in Trump's America. Zahra Billoo a Civil Rights Attorney & Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations San Francisco…
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2019 PPC Presidential Candidates' Forum: Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang responds to questions about the demands and principles of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Moderated by Joy Reid, Rev. Dr. William Barber, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.
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New Petition Aims to Regulate Guns Like We Regulate Cars
Could guns be regulated like cars? Would you feel safer if gun owners would need to be licensed, guns would have to be incurred, and a line of ownership kept? David Swanson joins Thom Hartmann…
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How Survivor Testimonies Toppled Billionaire Serial Abuser Jeffrey Epstein
Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was charged in a Manhattan federal court Monday with sex trafficking and conspiracy. He is accused of sexually assaulting and trafficking dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005…
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Charges Dropped Against Pregnant Shooting Victim Amid Outcry Over the Criminalization of Pregnancy
Following immense public pressure, prosecutors in Alabama have dropped manslaughter changers against Marshae Jones, a 28-year-old African-American woman whose pregnancy ended after she was shot in the stomach by a coworker. Local police accused Jones…
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Wins World Cup, Rebuking Pay Discrimination and President Trump
The U.S. national women’s soccer team made history by winning its record fourth World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 2 to 0 on Sunday in Lyon, France. The U.S. women’s World Cup victory came just…
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There's "Definite Parallels" between hate groups and Border Patrol group on Facebook
A.C. Thompson, a reporter with ProPublica, uncovered a secret Facebook group that included thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents. Members of the group shared racist, homophobic and sexist messages and memes. Thompson, who…
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What to the Slave is 4th of July?
In a Fourth of July holiday special, Democracy Now! hears the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New…
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Scott Warren Faces Retrial for Providing Aid to Migrants
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a…
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Stonewall Riots Anniversary Queer Liberation March Returns Pride to Radical Roots
Four million people took to the streets of New York City Sunday in the largest LGBTQIA Pride celebration in history. There were two marches to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that sparked…
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Trump Makes History by Walking into North Korea. Could This Help to Finally End the Korean War?
President Trump made history Sunday when he became the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in North Korea. Trump was there to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the military demarcation line at…
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Leaders of Uprising Look Back on the Stonewall Anniversary
Fifty years ago today, just after midnight, at 1:30 in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York City police officers raided a gay- and trans-friendly bar called the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in…
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