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Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier tests positive for COVID-19; Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discusses her new book and how activists can fight for abolition. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces recent killings in Mexico; Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd on evictions in Sheikh Jarrah; The documentary “Downfall” examines the deadly failures of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announces his retirement; Cuba circumvents U.S. embargoes to release its own coronavirus vaccines; The Federal Reserve combats concerns over inflation by announcing it will increase interest rates by March. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The founding head of Africa CDC on how the world must prepare for the next variant; The forgotten U.S. corporate coup plot of 1934 and how it relates to the deadly January 6 insurrection; Juan González on “Takeover,” the Oscar-shortlisted documentary about when the Young Lords took over a New York City hospital. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Father John Dear, longtime peace activist and former director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, remembers the lives and impact of his close friends Thich Nhat Hanh and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

The U.S. and other Western countries funnel arms into Ukraine as the risk of war increases; Antiwar activists call for the elimination of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles; Remembering peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

An update on relief efforts from Tonga as aid begins to arrive for the island nation after a devastating volcanic eruption; on the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a new documentary tells how the Jane Collective was an underground network that connected women with abortion providers before the Supreme Court legalized the procedure; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

How billionaires reshaped the world to their benefit; U.S. sanctions on Afghanistan contribute to a humanitarian catastrophe; The Biden administration continues to uphold Title 42 and other Trump-era immigration rules. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Tensions grow over Ukraine as Biden warns Putin to stay out of the country; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Ralph Nader assess the first year of the Biden administration. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A federal judge moves to restructure some $33 billion of Puerto Rico's massive debt; Anti-carceral feminist scholars Angela Davis, Beth Richie and Gina Dent discuss their new book, out this week, titled "Abolition. Feminism. Now."; Angela Davis discusses the new edition of her autobiography. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Rev. William Barber on mobilizing to pass voting rights legislation; A Texas rabbi responds to a British man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue; Who is Aafia Siddiqui? Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A Martin Luther King Day special featuring excerpts of two historic MLK speeches: "Beyond Vietnam" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop."

Advocates are calling for more aid to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where conditions in hospitals are deteriorating; The documentary "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America" follows former ACLU deputy legal director Jeffery Robinson as he confronts the enduring legacy of anti-Blackness in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Critics warn the 2022 midterms will bring a wave of Republican victories due to voter suppression and election tampering; A self-described "human guinea pig" who volunteered for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine trials drops out to protest the company's corporate greed; In a new book, The Nation's John Nichols takes aim at the corporations and political figures who put profits over people during the coronavirus pandemic. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

President Biden backs filibuster reform to pass new voting rights legislation; Tenants and activists say a deadly fire in the Bronx that killed 17 shows how city agencies fail to ensure safe affordable housing; New Jersey residents call on the governor to back his environmental justice vows and shut down plans for a new gas-fired power plant in Newark that would worsen air pollution and the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe