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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show looking at another case that set off protests and demands for justice: the police fatal shooting of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old Bangladeshi teen […]

Gaza solidarity protests continue on U.S. campuses. At Princeton, 10 faculty members are joining 12 students who have already been on hunger strike for one week. We’ll be joined by one of the student hunger strikers later in the broadcast. At the University of Pennsylvania, police in riot gear started arresting students early this morning. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The first faculty-led Gaza encampment in the country was launched at The New School here in New York City Wednesday evening. Nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the lobby of The New School’s main building on Fifth […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. At Princeton University, over a dozen students have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. We’re also joined in our New York studio by Larry Hamm, chair of the People’s Organization for Progress, who’s running in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in June. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. The Gaza solidarity encampments on college campuses, that have now spread worldwide, are calling for schools to divest from companies profiting from Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: I also spoke to Gillian Slovo this week about her new play, which runs through Sunday in Brooklyn, New York, at St. Ann’s Warehouse. It recalls how in 2017 a devastating apartment fire in London’s Grenfell Tower killed 72 residents. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: President Biden has said for the first time he would not supply certain weapons to Israel to be used for an all-out […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Millions of voters in India are casting their ballots in the third phase of the country’s mammoth general election. Voting began on April 19th in a seven-phase election which is taking place over a month and a half. Nearly a […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. More than 60 journalism professors around the United States have written to The New York Times calling on the paper to commission an independent review of its […]