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On today’s show: Headlines “Abolish ICE”: Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Agents Shoot Father with 5-Year-Old Son in Car Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Wins Nobel Peace Prize in “Stinging Rebuke to Donald Trump” “Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her”: Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Israeli Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on Oct. 7, Decries Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza “Origins of a Genocide”: Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on “Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East” Three Years into Genocide, “The IDF Is Still Hunting Gazans”: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines French High School Students Lead Mass Protests over School Funding, Inequality; Thousands Arrested Ebola Death Toll in DRC Tops 4,000; Trump USAID Cuts Fuel Outbreak “Incredible Moment for the Borderlands”: Judge Blocks Border Wall Expansion in Big Bend & West Texas Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Far Right Makes Gains in Brazil as Flávio Bolsonaro Tops Lula in First Round of Presidential Race “I Am Jane Doe”: Cornell Case Reignites Debate over Rape Culture, Frats & Prosecuting Sex Crimes Meet Issa Amro: Palestinian Human Rights Advocate Attacked by Settlers, Detained by Israeli Army Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Cruel & Torturous”: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution “The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru “Berlin 4” Lawyer on Pro-Palestine Protest Crackdown & Germany’s Unconditional Support for Israel Rise of the Far Right in Germany Raises Fear of an Even Wider Crackdown on Migration Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – October 1, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “No Land to Stand On”: Mahmoud Khalil on His Memoir, Palestine, Fighting Deportation & Suing Columbia 80 Years After Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Leads Assault on ICC & International Law: Wolfgang Kaleck Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 30, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 29, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis “Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons “Valley of Death”: Sharon Weinberger on Big Tech, AI Warfare & the CIA’s Secret Backing of Steve Jobs Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 28, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech “Grotesque”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech & Israel’s Impunity The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC “Crossing the Red Line”: Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Biden, His Advisers, Harris & Israel’s War in Gaza Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 24, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech Nepali Activist at U.N. Rally Calls for Climate Justice After Deadly Glacier Floods Kill Thousands “Secretary of Measlesland”: Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.’s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World” Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 22, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s briefing: Headlines “War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage “Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned “America, Who Hurt You?”: Emmy-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Inequality Emergency”: Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump “We Are the 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact Is Still Being Felt Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: “Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat & Trump’s Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser “Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe “The Elimination Project”: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B’Tselem “Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: • Headlines • “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Film on Gaza Genocide Win Venice Festival Prize; Israel Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of Directors “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 11, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines 25 Years Later: Afghan New Yorker Masuda Sultan Remembers 9/11 & 19 Relatives Killed in U.S. Bombing Report from Kabul: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty & Taliban Repression of Women “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 10, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Headlines “Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness & Death Firefighter, EMT, Stuyvesant High School Student Describe 9/11 Exposure & Long Fight for Healthcare “People I Flew with All the Time”: Flight Attendant Union Head Sara Nelson Remembers 9/11 Victims 25 Years After 9/11: Cover-Up of Air Quality Risk Proved to Be “Death Sentence” for Thousands Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The post Democracy Now! – September 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.