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09/30 Is President Bush Lying?: From Baghdad
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) questions Bush’s
war rhetoric and urges the return of weapons inspectors. Thousands
march to Dick Cheney’s mansion in Washington calling
for peace. 20,000 peacefully protest against corporate globalization:
D.C. police arrests 650 on Friday as IMF/World Bank meetings
began.Over 500,000 take to the streets in Europe: major protests
in London and Rome condemn Iraq war plans.
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09/27 Global dominance: Vice President Dick
Cheney’s plan for the U.S. to single-handedly rule the
world. The Silenced Majority: Voters across the nation are
flooding Congressional switchboards with calls and emails
demanding no military action in Iraq. Democracy Now! listeners
share their comments on the war. From Seattle to Minneapolis
to London: we hear from anti-war activists from across the
globe.“Hunger for War”: Death row political prisoner
Mumia Abu Jamal condemns U.S. war plans.
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09/26 Designing War: A Conversation with
Harper’s Publisher John MacArthur, author of “Second
Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War” Part
II. Democracy Now listeners speak out against the war on Iraq.
From Boston to Santa Cruz, peace activists organize against
war. Protests in DC to stop US war on Iraq. DCTV launches
Speakup New York “cybercar” tour leading up to
2002 gubernatorial election.
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09/25 Zacarias Moussaoui: Has the Justice
Department mishandled the case against him? Kesbeh family
reunited: INS Releases father and son from detention and postpones
Palestinian family's deportation to Jordan. Arafat's Compound
Remains Under Siege: A talk with Israeli Peace Activist Jeff
Halper.
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09/24 A Texas Republican comes out against
the war in Iraq: A Talk with US Rep. Ron Paul. Corporate Welfare:
How Enron, Halliburton, and other companies use taxpayers
millions to support their exports abroad. US Rep. Cynthia
McKinney on why she opposes war in Iraq. A discussion with
John Macarthur, author of Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda
in the Gulf War.
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09/23 Four Jewish activists interrupt a
speech by former Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Barak at the Pierre
Hotel in New York: While in Ramallah the Israeli military
has destroyed every building in Arafat’s compound but
the one he’s in. Florida police apologize for detaining
three Muslim medical students: We’ll speak to the young
men about their ordeal. In Houston a Palestinian family of
nine faces deportation yet again. Anti-corporate globalization
activists from South Africa and Fiji debate the World Bank:
The activists are here for this weekend’s anti-World
Bank and International Monetary Fund protests in Washington,
D.C.
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09/20 The Manhattan District Attorney’s
Office asks for more time to investigate the famous Central
Park Jogger case: a roundtable discussion on forced confessions.
Kesbeh family receives six-month stay of deportation: we’ll
talk to Noor Kesbeh. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle supports
Bush’s resolution against Iraq; protestors pay a visit
to his home. Was it a coup, a selection or an election? As
Florida plunges once again into electoral chaos and tens of
thousands of African-Americans remain purged from the voter
rolls, we go back in time to a documentary by two Los Angeles
Indymedia filmmakers.
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09/19 “We need weapons inspections,
not war”: Protesters interrupt Donald Rumsfeld at a
Congressional briefing on Iraq. Another Rodney King?: Seven
months ago California cops were caught on tape shooting down
an unarmed Latino man who had his hands in the air. We look
at the case and why it is only now getting attention in the
English language press. Was it a coup, a selection or an election?
As Florida plunges once again into electoral chaos and tens
of thousands of African-Americans remain purged from the voter
rolls, we go back in time with two Los Angeles Indymedia filmmakers.
MOVE puts up the barricades: Philadelphia group prepares for
confrontation as a child custody case intensifies.
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09/18 Population Transfer: Is Israel considering
expelling Palestinians to Jordan under cover of Iraq war?
Sabra and Shatila: We look back to the Sept. 18, 1982 massacre
that left 2,000 unarmed Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila
refugee camps outside Beirut. The "Palestinian Cleavers"
Face Deportation: A family of nine in Houston fights to stop
an INS deportation on Friday.
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09/17 Iraq says yes. Iraq allows unconditional
return of weapons inspectors, but White House dismisses the
offer: an interview with British MP George Galloway in Baghdad,
former Senator James Abourezk (D-S.D.) who is returning from
Iraq, and UN expert Phyllis Bennis. Art & War: the music
of resistance: Political folk singers Jim Page and Dana Lyons
perform and talk about their music.
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09/16 US politicians and media critic Norman
Solomon meet with Iraqi officials in Bagdhad: we’ll
talk to Norman Solomon. Just one person can make a difference:
part two of our interview with Julia Butterfly Hill. Activists
protest former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson at his home
in Long Island: an interview with fisherwoman-turned environmentalist
Diane Wilson, who in August chained herself to an ethylene
oxide tower inside the Union Carbide plant (now owned by Dow
Chemical) in Seadrift, TX.
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09/13 President Bush addresses the United
Nations, warning that if the UN fails to enforce resolutions
demanding Iraq’s disarmament, the US will take action
on its own: a roundtable discussion with former UN humanitarian
coordinator for Iraq Hans von Sponeck, former UN weapons inspector
Scott Ritter, maverick British journalist Robert Fisk, Rep.
Nick Rahall, (D-W.Va) who is in Damascus, on his way to Iraq,
and international law expert Francis Boyle.
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09/12 “Earth to Bush! No Iraq War!”:
activists hang a gigantic banner above the East River across
from the United Nations, as Bush prepares to speak. Bush to
address United Nations: take action on Iraq or US will. Another
9-11 anniversary: September 11, 1973, when US-backed troops
took power in the Pinochet coup in Chile. New Yorkers hold
peace vigil on the eve of September 11: Manning Marable and
Kathy Kelly speak out. No war for oil: famous tree-sitter
Julia Butterfly Hill speaks out.
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09/11 Today is September 11, 2002. One year
ago, at the time of this broadcast, 9:03 a.m. EST, the second
hijacked plane hit the second tower of the World Trade Center.
Among the thousands of people trapped inside was Abe Zelmanowitz.
His sister, Rita Lasar, remembers the day. Former US attorney
general Ramsey Clark and independent filmmaker Jon Alpert
discuss Iraq. Democracy Now! looks back at last years archival
footage moments and hours after the towers were hit.
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09/10 The Bush Administration escalates
propaganda for an attack on Iraq: former head of the House
Foreign Relations Committee Lee Hamilton discusses past and
present tactics. Miami-Dade County votes today on whether
to repeal gay anti-discrimination laws. Today’s vote
comes just days after three gay men were brutally attacked
in West Hollywood, and a gay Nevada high school student accepted
an unprecedented settlement from his school district, which
failed to stop anti-gay attacks.
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09/09 20,000 people gather in San Francisco
to call for peace: an interview with hip hop artist and activist
Michael Franti. Jello Biafra speaks at peace rally in San
Francisco. Two dozen people go to prison tomorrow for protesting
what they consider to be a U.S.-operated terrorist training
camp: a conversation with a father from New Jersey and a mother
from upstate New York.“Sustainable Development Is Dead”:
the Earth Summit draws to a close in Johannesburg.
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09/06 Congress Holds Joint Session in New
York for First Time in 200 Years. Central Park Jogger Case
Is Reopened after New Dna Evidence Shows Five African-American
and Latino Youths Who Were Imprisoned for Years Did Not Commit
the Rape. NAACP Settles with the State of Florida and the
Private Company Choicepoint, but Thousands of Voters Illegally
Purged from the Rolls Still Can’t Vote.
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09/05 Are unions a threat to national security?
Government workers mobilize against Bush’s attempts
to bust unions in new Homeland Security department. Troops
for Trade: Bush Administration threatens to bring in troops
to squash possible Longshoreman strike, federal mediators
intervene in Boeing strike vote. Ben and Jerry’s co-founder
Ben Cohen rides a giant pig representing the Pentagon budget
through the streets of New York: smaller pigs representing
social services are in tow.
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09/04 As General Colin Powell is heckled
on the final day of the Earth Summit, we’ll hear voices
from around the world speaking back: a Canadian farmer tells
how he was sued by biotech giant Monsanto; a South African
proclaims “Africa is not for sale!” as she speaks
out against the so-called New Partnership for Africa’s
Development; Maude Barlow on‘Blue Gold: The Battle to
Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water’; Oscar
Olivera on his struggle to stop the privatization of water
in Bolivia; Vandana Shiva: is this an earth summit or a trade
summit?
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09/03 US blocks all action on renewable
energy at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg: an update from
Johannesburg. Renewable energy, sustainable living, and reigning
in multinational corporations: a speech by best-selling author
and corporate reform expert Paul Hawken. Alternatives to global
warming: vegetable-based‘biodiesel’ fuel, and
actor Ed Begley Jr., on electric cars.
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09/02 LABOR DAY SPECIAL: as dockworker’s
negotiations break down and a work slow-down looms, Bush threatens
to bring in troops. LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 2, immigrant workers:
100 airport workers are arrested in Los Angeles; hundreds
of thousands flee Malaysian crackdown. LABOR DAY SPECIAL,
part 3, ‘Unjust Rewards’: Washington rewards workplace
safety violators with millions of dollars in contracts.
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