On today’s show: “Point-Blank”: Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers, Bury them in Unmarked Mass Grave “Hands Off!”: 1M+ Protest Trump’s DOGE Cuts, Attacks on Education, Immigration, War on Gaza, and More “Terrifying”: Poorest Countries and Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump’s Tariffs The post Democracy Now 6am – April 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Reproductive Rights Crackdown: Planned Parenthood CEO on Supreme Court Case, Title X, and More “An Attack on Labor”: Washington Farmworker Organizer “Lelo” Detained in Trump Immigration Crackdown “Can’t Look Away”: New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids The post Democracy Now 6am – April 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “American Empire Is in Decline”: Economist Richard Wolff on Trump’s Trade War and Tariffs Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil ICE Detains Mother and Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near New York State Home of Border Czar Tom Homan The post Democracy Now 6am – April 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court, as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Professor Katherine Franke on School’s Capitulation to Trump Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison, as Mass Deportations Expand The post Democracy Now 6am – April 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Workers vs. Musk: Federal Unions Resist Attacks on Bargaining Rights and Cuts to Essential Services A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach “Powerful” Tentative Contract “The Darkest Hour of Need”: Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake “We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”: Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk The post Democracy Now 6am – April 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Obsessed”: Elon Musk Pours $20 Million into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race as Voter Anger Builds “Taking Down Everything Black”: Fired Kennedy Center Vice President Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump’s Takeover Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation and Big Tech The post Democracy Now 6am – March 31, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film “The Encampments” and Why He Speaks Out Against Israel’s War on Gaza “The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil and Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests The post Democracy Now 6am – March 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out After Trump Guts Social Impact Team “Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court Elon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi Movements The post Democracy Now 6am – March 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Hands Off Social Security: Drastic DOGE-Backed Changes Put Benefits for Millions at Risk 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor and Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown The post Democracy Now 6am – March 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Brutally Beaten in Mob Attack by Israeli Settlers Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death “Much Worse Than Ever Before”: Abubaker Abed Reports from Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion The post Democracy Now 6am – March 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C. Law Professor Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom Note” The post Democracy Now 6am – March 24, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump’s War on Dissent and Targeting Palestinians “Catch and Revoke”: AI-Driven State Department Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students and Visa Holders Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America The post Democracy Now 6am – March 21, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests “Murder the Truth”: David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists and Protect the Powerful Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador’s Version of Guantánamo The post Democracy Now 6am – March 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career “We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Leader Jeanette Vizguerra, Who Once Sought Sanctuary in Denver Church Sabotaging Social Security: Trump & Musk Move Ahead with Plan to Cut Agency Staff & Critical Services Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by jour...
On today’s show: “Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+ “Endless Trauma”: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire, as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population U.S. Kills Dozens in Yemen Strikes, as Houthis Pledge to Disrupt Shipping in Solidarity with Gaza On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump’s Takeover The post Democracy Now 6am – March 18, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Representative Jamie Raskin: Trump’s Attacks on Critics and Press Are Part of the “Authoritarian Playbook” Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights Should Schumer Step Down? Calls Grow for New Dem Leadership After He Voted for Trump Spending Bill The post Democracy Now 6am – March 17, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest “Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”: M. Gessen on Trump’s Policies at Home and Abroad If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge’s Warning About Elon Musk’s Abuse of Power The post Democracy Now 6am – March 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: As U.N. Accuses Israel of Genocidal Acts, Doctors in Gaza Denounce Israeli Blockade on Aid, Food, and Fuel Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyers Press for Release of Columbia University Activist Jailed in Free Speech Case Ex-Education Department Official: Trump Is Dismantling Agency as He Weaponizes It Against Gaza Protesters Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S., as Trump and Musk Brand Activists as Terrorists The post Democracy Now 6am – March 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Trump’s Trade War: Why Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes U.S. Less Competitive “Impeach Trump Again”: John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump’s Lawlessness, Corruption, and Attacks on Judges “Monumental Step”: Ex-Philippines President Duterte Arrested, Sent to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity The post Democracy Now 6am – March 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “This Is All Retaliatory”: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests Noura Erakat: Trump’s Abuses and Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home “A Devastating Tragedy”: 1,000+ People Killed in Syria Amid Reports of Massacres Against Alawites The post Democracy Now 6am – March 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change Mahmoud Khalil: ICE Detains Green Card Holder over Columbia University Gaza Activism The post Democracy Now 6am – March 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President”: Representative Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts “Mathematically Impossible” Without Gutting Medicaid and More Reed Brody: Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution The post Democracy Now 6am – March 7, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Lift the Freeze”: HIV/AIDS Advocates Win Supreme Court Victory in Fight over Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Leaked USAID Memos Warn 100,000s Will Die from Cuts to Polio, TB, Malaria, Ebola, AIDS Programs U.S. Humanitarianism Often Reproduces Inequality, But Killing USAID Is Wrong Answer: Kathryn Mathers The post Democracy Now 6am – March 6, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “A Declaration of War Against the American People”: Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress Fact-Check: Juan González on Trump’s “Outrageous” Lies About Panama Canal “Deporting Immigrants Like Me Won’t Make Eggs Cheaper or Your Family Safer”: Erika Andiola on Trump “Betrayal”: Canadian Researcher Responds to Trump’s Tariffs & Trade War Amid Fears of Recession “War on Trans People”: Transgender Journalist Imara Jones Responds to Trump’s Speech Why NJ Rep. Bonnie Watson Col...
On today’s show: Greenpeace on Trial: $300M Lawsuit over Standing Rock Protests Could Shutter Group and Chill Free Speech Winona LaDuke: DAPL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Aims to Silence Indigenous Protests, Too “Sugarcane”: Oscar-Nominated Film Explores “Colonial Silence” Around Indian Residential Schools Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire The post Democracy Now 6am – March 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: “Stop the Ethnic Cleansing”: Watch Oscar Speech by Palestinian and Israeli Directors of “No Other Land” “You’re Gambling with WWIII”: Watch Trump and Vance Clash with Zelensky at White House U.S.-Europe Rift Widens as Russia Welcomes Trump’s Shifting Ukraine Stance, Following Zelensky Clash Ken Roth on Israel’s “Starvation Strategy” in Gaza and “Righting Wrongs” of Abusive Governments The post Democracy Now 6am – March 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Might Makes Right: Matt Duss on Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine, from Ukraine to Gaza Dr. Khaled Alser Speaks from Gaza on Surviving 7 Months in Israeli Prisons After Raid on His Hospital “Detained, Tortured and Starved”: Report Details Abuse of Gaza Doctors and Staff in Israeli Detention Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Web Pages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump The post Democracy Now 6am – February 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease “Comes Roaring Back” Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Report from a Devastated Lebanon: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Nasrallah’s Funeral and Fragile Ceasefire The Billionaires’ Government: Branko Marcetic on Trump’s “Complete Betrayal” of His Base The post Democracy Now 6am – February 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
On today’s show: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk’s “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More Sister Helen Prejean Demands End to Death Penalty as Supreme Court Tosses Glossip Murder Conviction Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now 6am – February 26, 2025 appea...
On today’s show: As Musk Slashes Federal Government and Fires Thousands, Workers, Trump Appointees, Judges, and Media Push Back “No Public Oversight”: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Human Rights Abuses Biden, Blinken, and Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate The post Democracy Now 6am – February 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
