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A federal civil trial begins in Charlottesville, seeking to hold organizers of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally responsible for the deadly violence; New York City taxi drivers go on hunger strike demanding debt relief; Climate activists push President Joe Biden to keep climate measures in the Build Back Better package; Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger reports to jail, the latest turn in his decade-long fight against the oil giant Chevron. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Researchers demand more regulation and consumer protection for the misinformation and harm spread by Facebook; Global leaders and Sudanese protesters reject Sudan's military coup; A Hollywood prop master on how unsafe conditions and a crew walkout factored into Alec Baldwin fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The fate of two Democratic budget bills could be decided soon as progressive lawmakers resist further cuts to the Build Back Better Act; Supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hold a people's tribunal to highlight U.S. war crimes and demand the publisher's freedom. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Branko Marcetic and Stephen Smith on Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema; Ahmaud Arbery's aunt and attorney on the trial of the three white men who fatally shot him in 2020; Public Citizen researcher Zain Rizvi exposes the quiet monopoly of vaccine companies like Pfizer that put profit over public interest. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Congressmember Ilhan Omar on negotiations over the Build Back Better Act and overcoming opposition from conservative Democrats; Investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw on Senator Jim Manchin's "dirty empire" of coal interests in West Virginia; Revisiting the case of jailed Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies to Congress; Up to 144,000 gallons of oil spill into the ocean off the coast of California; Derecka Purnell on her new book, "Becoming Abolitionists." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen reveals the company has long been aware of the negative effects of its technology; The Pandora Papers expose how the global elite hide their wealth in offshore tax havens. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Members of Congress share stories of their own abortions as thousands march in "Bans Off Our Bodies" protests across the United States; Alexis McGill Johnson, head of Planned Parenthood, on the Republican assault on reproductive rights; Youth activists demand action on the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We spend the hour looking at the life and legacy of Michael Ratner, the trailblazing human rights lawyer who died in 2016 and whose posthumous memoir was just published. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Reverend William Barber on why Congress needs to pass the $3.5 trillion bill expanding the social safety net and fighting the climate crisis; As the media obsess over missing white women, Black, Brown and Indigenous women are largely ignored. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Journalist David Dayen on Democratic negotiations over two major bills in Congress; Yanis Varoufakis on the German election and what it means for Europe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In an extended interview with Yanis Varoufakis, member of the Greek Parliament and former finance minister of Greece, we discuss his new novel, “Another Now,” and why he chose to write fiction after years of nonfiction.

R. Kelly is found guilty on sex trafficking and racketeering charges; An explosive new report finds the CIA plotted to abduct or kill Julian Assange; Workers at El Milagro tortilla plants in Chicago fight for better working conditions. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was held at the military prison for 14 years without charge, describes his ordeal in the new book "Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Tenant activists push Congress to protect people from eviction during the pandemic; Women's rights in Afghanistan are eroding under the Taliban; Congressmember Maxine Waters on what the U.S. owes Haitian refugees. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe