Democracy Now!
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| Mon-Fri | 12 PM |
| Mon-Fri | 10 PM |
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Website: www.DemocracyNow.org |
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Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web.
Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other.
New stations are adding Democracy Now! to their programming schedules all the time, and there are several movements going on around the country right now to bring Democracy Now! to new communities. To find out more about these efforts, and how to get involved, click here.
WHY INDEPENDENT MEDIA ?
For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information.
But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media consolidation. The U.S. media was already fairly homogeneous in the early 1980s: some fifty media conglomerates dominated all media outlets, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music, publishing and film. In the year 2000, just six corporations dominated the U.S. media.
In addition, corporate media outlets in the U.S. are legally responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits.
Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations. We do not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding. This allows us to maintain our independence.
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-21 Tuesday
Headlines for January 21, 2025; Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ Jan. 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute; Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of Waterway; “A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power”: Legality of Trump’s Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned; “People Are Afraid”: Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump; Chase Strangio: Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women; Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: “A Day of Victory for Indigenous People”
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-20 Monday
Headlines for January 20, 2025; Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation; Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks; People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second Inauguration; “Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration; “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: In His Final Speech, MLK Spoke of Reaching “Promised Land” of Equality
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-17 Friday
Headlines for January 17, 2025; Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later; Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires & Corporations; Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-16 Thursday
Headlines for January 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks; Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future; Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-15 Wednesday
Headlines for January 15, 2025; Democrats Grill Pete Hegseth on Rape Allegation, Drunkenness and Women in Combat; Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing; Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man’s “Race Against Time” as Israel Blocks Medication