Healthcare Workers Report Back from Gaza; US Undermined Food Sovereignty in Haiti; Social Media Moguls Clamp Down on Freedom of the Press; Namibian Miners Fight for Health and Safety

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A Palestinian medical worker holds one of the newborn twins of Abu Odah family as midwife Samah Qeshta looks on, at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing Israeli assault in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

 

The US-Israeli attack on healthcare workers and the people of Gaza according to Dr. Jess Ghannam is unlike any other in history. Ghannam, a University of California San Francisco Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Global Health, and Bridget Rochios, a UCSF Certified Nurse Midwife, spoke this past week at San Francisco General Hospital about the reality for healthcare workers, children, mothers and the people of Gaza.

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Next, Block Report Radio’s JR Valrey talks with Haiti Action’s Pierre Labossierre about the Democratic Party’s role in the destabilization of Haiti.

With Donald Trump and JD Vance’s aspersions against hard-working Haitians in Springfield Ohio recently, Labossierre also talks about the US’ role in engineering the end of food sovereignty in the nation. 

The Haiti Action Committee is at haitisolidarity.net, and a companion organization can be found at haitiemergencyrelief.org. You can find more from JR Valrey at Block Report Official on Instagram.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland and social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg have delivered a one-two punch to freedom of the press. Pacifica’s Don DeBar has this story.

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Chinese companies, public and private, have taken over all the uranium and marble mines in the country. Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer talked with union leader Lourens Ricarto Soroseb who has been fired for fighting for healthcare benefits and better health and safety conditions on the job. 

And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, JR Valrey, Don DeBar, Polina Vasiliev, and the host, Akua Holt. 

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Music:

Sade, “Pearls”

Roger Waters – We Shall Overcome

Imamba