ICYMI - from 2014

#DemocracyNow
Mar 14, 2014

"The iconic Grand Canyon is the site of a battle over toxic uranium mining. Last year, a company called Energy Fuels Resources was given federal approval to reopen a mine six miles from the Grand Canyon's popular South Rim entrance. A coalition of Native and environmental groups have protested the decision, saying uranium mining could strain scarce water sources and pose serious health effects. Diné (Navajo) tribal lands are littered with abandoned uranium mines. From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were chiseled and blasted from the mountains and plains of the region. More than 1,000 mines have closed, but the mining companies never properly disposed of their radioactive waste piles, leading to a spike in cancer rates and other health ailments. Broadcasting from Flagstaff, Arizona, we speak with Taylor McKinnon, director of energy with Grand Canyon Trust, and #KleeBenally, a Diné (Navajo) activist and musician. "It's really a slow genocide of the people, not just indigenous people of this region, but it's estimated that there are over 10 million people who are residing within 50 miles of abandoned #uranium mines," Benally says. Benally also describes the struggle to preserve the San Francisco Peaks, an area considered sacred by 13 Native tribes, where the Snowbowl ski resort is using treated sewage water to make snow."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSEADfWh9To

#NoUraniumMining #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousAction #Navajo #TheReturnofNavajoBoy

#DemocracyNow listening to #KeithLamar telling his story of #InjusticeOfJustice directly from
#DeathRow.

#AbolishTheDeathPenalty #press #BreakingNews #BlackMastodon

https://youtu.be/DEZnJlKPSXw?si=aPvDkYUsDZDVUNXf

Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk’s “Chaotic Blitz” at DOGE
Living in a Tech Dystopia
Luigi Mangione
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic
#DemocracyNow!
#Politics #Economics #Journalism #Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKV5GB6dN3o

Many anti-Trump news sources are reporting this:

“We discuss how incoming President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff pressured Israel to accept the deal and what it reveals about the outgoing Biden administration’s refusal to use its own leverage for the same end.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/16/gaza_ceasefire_deal_analysis

#israel #palestine #freepalestine #ceasefire #trump #biden #gaza #democracynow #hamas #jeremyscahill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WkR3BsOqxM

#DemocracyNow 2021

#SteveDonziger, the #lawyer who sued #Chevron over Amazon Oil Spills, Marks 2 Years Under House Arrest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ki91f4eLa4

#DemocracyNow

'Outrageous': Rep. #JimMcGovern Slams #Trump's nonsnse on Taking #Greenland, #PanamaCanal, #Canada

#press #news #democracy #democracynow

"The responsibility of a #journalist is to go to where the silence is—to amplify the voices of those who have been forgotten & forsaken by the powerful. It's the best reason I know for us to pick up our pens, microphones & cameras and go out into our own communities and the wider world.

#Donate online today—when your tax-deductible gift will be doubled—& help us amplify the voices of people who are committed to changing the world."

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Lethal Ai Surveillance “Future Now” #Pegasus
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/12/spying-on-activists-dine-klee-benally.html

#FirstNations #Gaza #Lebanon #Palestine #Zapatistas #democracynow

#Lakota #Historian #NickEstes on #Thanksgiving, #SettlerColonialism & Continuing #IndigenousResistance

#DemocracyNow, November 28, 2024

"Lakota historian #NickEstes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. 'This history … is a continuing history of #genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,' says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe."

Watch / listen / read transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/28/nick_estes_thanksgiving

#PrayerMarch #Resistance #OurHistoryIstheFuture #IndigenousResistance #Activism #Capitalism #CapitalismMustDie #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #ManifestDestiny #DoctrineOfDiscovery

Amy Goodman accepts another journalism award for Democracy Now's work, and uses the platform to highlight the journalists killed, the importance of showing pictures of atrocities, and her belief that we are the silenced majority, the majority who are decent human beings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npt2DxABvtk #Journalism #DemocracyNow #AmyGoodman #Awards

House Approves “#NonprofitKiller” Bill [#HR9495], Most Dangerous Domestic #AntiTerrorism Bill Since #PatriotAct

#DemocracyNow, November 22, 2024

"The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would empower the Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems has provided material support to a terrorist organization. A broad coalition of civil society groups have opposed the bill, warning that it would give the Trump administration sweeping powers to crack down on political opponents. H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, passed the House 219 to 184 largely along party lines, with 15 Democrats supporting the Republican majority.

"'This bill is essentially a civil rights disaster,' says Darryl Li, an anthropologist, lawyer and legal scholar teaching at the University of Chicago. Li, who recently wrote a briefing paper on the anti-Palestinian origins of U.S. terrorism law, says 'anti-Palestinian racism is one of the great bipartisan unifiers in Congress.'"

Read more / watch / listen:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/22/nonprofit_bill

#StopHR9495 #CivilRights #SilencingDissent #ViewerSupportedNews