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Democracy Now! Friday, May 17, 2024

Headlines for May 16, 2024; Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy; Human Rights Watch: Israeli Forces Attack Known Aid Worker Locations in Gaza; “In Cold Blood”: Russian Forces Executing Surrendering Ukrainian Soldiers; “Rampage of Killings, Looting, Torture, Rape”: Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan’s Darfur Region

Headlines for May 15, 2024; Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters; “Stop This War Right Now”: U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth’s Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza; “A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges

Headlines for May 14, 2024; “Displacement Has Been Weaponized”: Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli Attack & Fleeing Rafah; Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s War on Gaza; “Unbuild Walls”: Detention Watch’s Silky Shah on Debunking Immigration Myths & Embracing Abolition

Headlines for May 13, 2024; “The Plan Is Genocide”: Palestine’s U.K. Ambassador Decries Israel’s Attack on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home; NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life

Headlines for May 10, 2024; 12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues; “We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met; Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ; Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine; “Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors”: Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72