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Hong Kong high-rise fire fuels anger over housing crisis
The deadly inferno that engulfed a Hong Kong apartment complex has deepened public anger over the city’s lack of affordable housing.
DC shooting deepens tensions over National Guard deployments
The man suspected of shooting two US National Guard members in Washington, DC, worked for a CIA-backed paramilitary force in Afghanistan, the agency said.
Trump Collectively Punishes Afghan Community After Wednesday Shooting
The administration quickly politicized and sought to weaponize the tragic shooting.
DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ Matt Stoller & Alec Karakatsanis)
Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta: My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero
"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Decades in Prison, Coming Home
My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier's Daughter Marquetta
Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about the campaign to free her father and what it meant to see him released in February.
"I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home
In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at an American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. “We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.”