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Democracy Now! Thursday, August 8, 2024
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Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when accelerated by human-caused climate change. The Palisades fire and the Eaton fire have together burned almost 40,000 acres, and damaged or destroyed over 12,000 homes and other buildings, killing at least 25 people. These fast-moving fires vaporized entire neighborhoods in hours, even minutes, forcing residents to flee with what they could carry. These climate-fueled fires have also drawn renewed attention to the writing of the late Octavia Butler, who broke ground as a Black woman science fiction writer, and her novel, The Parable of the Sower, a dystopian tale set in California. In the book, climate change has completely disrupted society as we know it. Wealth inequality has spurred crimes of desperation and driven neighborhoods to wall themselves off and form armed self-defense groups. A new, populist pro-business, anti-regulation president gets elected, enacting policies that intensify inequality. Written in 1993, Butler’s prophetic book is set in the years 2024 through 2027. The Parable of the Sower is told via diary entries of a Black teenage girl, Lauren Olamina. Lauren lives with her family near Los Angeles, in a walled enclave shared by eleven families. Octavia Butler grew up in Pasadena with her widowed mother, who worked as a maid for wealthy white families. The book’s fictional community of Robledo is similar to Altadena, neighboring Pasadena. As a result of racist redlining throughout L.A.’s history, Altadena developed as a largely middle class Black community, on LA’s northern edge. The Eaton fire has destroyed much of Altadena. Lauren Olamina, in one of her diary entries, describes how even the modest comforts of their walled cul-de-sac proved to be a target for those with less: “[E]verything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn’t believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.” Violent attacks on the neighborhood increased, and, after one in which her family and most neighbors are killed, Lauren flees with two others, heading north. In one passage during their flight, she writes, “Fires are illegal. You can see them flickering all over the hills, but they are illegal. Everything is so dry that there’s always a danger of campfires getting away from people and taking out a community or two. It does happen. But people who have no homes will build fires.” As early as 1993, Octavia Butler saw the threat of climate change. The Parable of the Sower was to be the first in a series of Parable novels. It was followed by The Parable of the Talents (in which a Christian nationalist is elected president, promising to “Make America Great Again”). Butler died in 2006, after an accidental fall, leaving the rest of the series unwritten. She is buried in Altadena. In 2005, in one of her last recorded interviews, Octavia Butler said on the Democracy Now! news hour, “I wrote the two Parable books back in the '90s … books about what happens because we don't trouble to correct some of the problems that we’re brewing for ourselves right now. Global warming is one of those problems. I was aware of it back in the ’80s. I was reading books about it. A lot of people were seeing it as politics, as something very iffy, as something they could ignore because nothing was going to come of it tomorrow.” Octavia Butler continued, setting the scene then reading an excerpt from The Parable of the Sower: “I have a character in the books who is … taking the country fascist and who manages to get elected president …Here is one of the things that my character is inspired to write about this sort of situation. She says: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” We write this days before the second inauguration of Donald Trump, who has threatened to withhold federal disaster aid for California unless the state enacts policies demanded by Republicans. Of course, the climate catastrophe doesn’t recognize borders, nor cares if a state is red or blue – look no further than hurricane damage in North Carolina and Florida. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, fires still burn as authorities try to locate and identify the dead. In a city known globally for its creative output, life is now, sadly, imitating the art of Octavia Butler.…
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1 Democracy Now! Friday, January 10, 2025 59:02
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The time has come to shutter the prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where men are held far offshore the mainland U.S. in an extrajudicial hell. There, men imprisoned for over 20 years, without charge, without trial, and who have been cleared for release, remain caged, virtually forgotten. President Biden, thankfully, hasn’t forgotten. Eleven long-term Guantánamo prisoners were recently released, transferred to Oman to live free. Fifteen men remain imprisoned in Guantánamo. Of those 15, six have never been charged with a crime, and three have been cleared for release. Biden can deliver a measure of justice to all those remaining in Guantánamo. He should release those who’ve been cleared, and transfer those who remain charged or convicted to a facility inside the U.S. He should then order the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison to be shut down, once and for all. Overall, 780 men were imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002, most without charge. A handful of U.S. attorneys have advocated for them, some for almost a quarter century. Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at City University of New York, is one of these lawyers. “Moath al-Alwi is a Yemeni national,” Ramzi Kassem said on the Democracy Now! news hour, describing one of his clients who was just released to Oman. “He’s one of the very first prisoners who arrived at Guantánamo. The prison was opened on January 11th, 2002. He was on the second or the third plane. You could tell by his low internment serial number, 028. He was never charged with any crime. He was, like the majority of prisoners at Guantánamo, sold for a bounty, $5,000 to $15,000, that the U.S. government was paying to tribes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region for so-called Arabs out of place. By the government’s own allegations, Mr. al-Alwi never so much as fired a shot at U.S. forces or their allies. Still, he spent 23 years, over half of his life, at Guantánamo.” Ramzi Kassem described another of those prisoners recently released from Guantánamo: “Sanad al-Kazimi survived the CIA black sites. He was disappeared in the United Arab Emirates, survived severe forms of physical and psychological torture at a prison that the prisoners who survived it called ‘the prison of darkness’ or ‘the dark prison.’ The CIA called it the ‘Salt Pit’ or ‘Cobalt’ in the Senate’s report about the torture that happened there. He was brought to Guantánamo in 2004. He was also never charged with a crime. He has four kids that he hasn’t seen for the better part of their lives.” Multiply these stories hundreds of times, and you begin to grasp the scale of injustice that has dominated the 20-plus year stain of Guantánamo on the U.S. justice system. Sharqawi Al Hajj is another of the Yemeni prisoners just released to Oman. He has long been represented by Pardiss Kebriaei, a senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). “Sharqawi is 51. He’s been inside since he was captured when he was 28, 29,” Kebriaei said on Democracy Now! “Guantánamo was set up as an intelligence-gathering operation. The point of it was to establish a place offshore where people could be held outside the bounds of the law, without access to courts, incommunicado, and where they could be interrogated.” Despite years of interrogation, including two years before Guantánamo, when Sharqawi Al Hajj was imprisoned at a CIA dark site in Jordan and at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, which was dubbed “Gitmo East” as the brutality inflicted on prisoners there paralleled that suffered at Guantánamo itself. “The release of these people and their freedom for the first time after all of this time, the chance to reunify with their families and begin to recover and rebuild, it’s hard to overstate the enormity of that for them,” CCR attorney Pardiss Kebriaei said. It seems at best unlikely that the remaining prisoners would see anything under the incoming Trump administration other than a continuation of their lives in the legal black hole that is Guantánamo Bay. For example, Moath al-Alwi became an accomplished artist while imprisoned. Following a 2017 New York exhibit of art by him and other Guantánamo prisoners, the first Trump administration declared their artwork “government property,” telling lawyers it would be destroyed. The policy was reversed under President Biden. Perhaps, if Trump’s federal budget-cutting duo of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were to consider Guantánamo, it would be closed. After all, the government spends half a billion dollars a year keeping the prison and the court at Guantánamo open – now, for just these 15 men. President Barack Obama pledged to close Guantánamo as far back as 2009, but failed to do so. President Biden still has the power to close it, he has the authority, and he still has the time. But does he have the will?…
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1 Democracy Now! Thursday, January 9, 2025 59:02
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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan People around the globe have been watching the blockbuster musical film “Wicked” this holiday season. Based on the Broadway musical, it serves as a backstory to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, casting that film’s villain, the Wicked Witch of the West, in a positive light, as a misunderstood and bullied child who goes on to challenge authority and expose wrong-doing. From the mid-1950s until the early 1990s, long before streaming platforms and video on demand, television audiences dependent on just a few major broadcast networks had to wait for the annual chance to see The Wizard of Oz. The much-anticipated special broadcast would typically air between Thanksgiving and Christmas, attracting millions of viewers across the country. This shared cinematic tradition popularized the fantastic tale of Dorothy, her dog Toto, and the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion. The film also brought global acclaim to its musical score, with iconic songs like “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” and “We’re Off to See the Wizard,” “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” and the world-renowned classic, “Over the Rainbow.” Less well-known is the writer of the lyrics to those songs: E.Y. “Yip” Harburg. In an era of rising authoritarianism, growing inequality and an ascendant billionaire class, Yip Harburg’s socially-conscious songs, and his own struggle to overcome poverty during the Great Depression and then blacklisting during the McCarthy era – even as “The Wizard of Oz” gained fame – serve as both an inspiration and a warning. Yip Harburg was born in 1896 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, to poor Jewish parents who fled the anti-semitic pogroms of eastern Europe along with so many others. In high school, he was seated alphabetically next to Ira Gershwin. They began a friendship that lasted a lifetime and shaped 20th-century American song and culture. Ernie Harburg, Yip’s son and co-author of the biography “Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?,” said in a 1996 interview on the Democracy Now! news hour, “Yip knew poverty deeply … it was the basis of Yip’s understanding of life as struggle.” Yip Harburg was deep in debt after the 1929 Wall Street crash. Gershwin suggested Harburg write song lyrics. Before long, he wrote the song that captured the essence of the Great Depression, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” which became a national hit and remains a timeless anthem for hard times, corporate greed and the dignity of working people: Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a dime? “The Wizard of Oz” was based on the 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. Prior to the commercial success Baum enjoyed from the book, he worked an array of jobs, including a stint in South Dakota owning the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer newspaper, from 1890-91. There he wrote editorials, including two that called for genocide against indigenous people. Just days after the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890, in which an estimated 300 Lakota elders, women and children on the nearby Pine Ridge Reservation were slaughtered by the US Army, Baum wrote, “Our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians…wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.” Yip Harburg’s writing, conversely, dignified the downtrodden, the working class, immigrants and other marginalized groups. These themes were central to the two Broadway hits Yip wrote, Bloomer Girl, about the women’s suffrage movement, and Finian’s Rainbow, which celebrated immigrants and the struggle against racism. His lyrics attracted the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who led a deeply destructive “hunt” for communists within the government and leading institutions, including Hollywood studios. McCarthy was aided by the red-baiting lawyer Roy Cohn, who would later serve as mentor to a young Donald Trump. Yip Harburg was among hundreds of writers, actors and others banned from working in film and television for the duration of the 1950s. McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade were eventually discredited, and Harburg continued his creative human rights work, until his death in 1981, aged 84. Yip Harburg’s best-known and most loved work remains his lyrics for “The Wizard of Oz.” The film was released in the tumultuous year of 1939. Fascism was on the march in Europe and Asia, the economic impacts of the depression still plagued the working class, and racist Jim Crow laws oppressed millions of people of color. With just weeks from Donald Trump’s inauguration to his second term as president, and with a timely focus on challenging authority ushered in by the hit movie “Wicked,” now is a good time to recall the incredible work and lyrical lessons of Yip Harburg, the man who put the rainbow in the Wizard of Oz.…
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