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December 2002
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12/31 North Korea accuses U.S. of plotting
war and vows to fight to the last man; South Korea denounces
heavy U.S. economic pressure on the North. "A Shortcut
Through 2002," featuring George W. Bush, Trent Lott,
Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King, Jr., Phil Berrigan, Joe
Strummer and many others. The biggest stories of 2002 –
according to you.
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12/30 "We are celebrating our second
liberation": Kenya’s people elect opposition leader
Mwai Kibak. It is the first time an opposition party has won
the presidency since Kenya became independent from Britain
four decades ago. 75 people protest in front of the Pentagon:
some throw blood on the Pentagon and are arrested. "Saddam
did not close our health clinics!", "Ain't
no Viet Cong ever called me a nigger": civil rights leader
and MLK mentor Rev. James Lawson calls on the peace movement
to become a justice movement.
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12/27 Today Kenyans go to the polls for
the first time in 24 years: We interview Kenyan professor
Ali Mazrui about his country’s politics and the US militarization
of the horn of Africa. "I Refuse to Die": Koigi
wa Wamwere, one of Kenya’s leading human rights activists,
is running for parliament in todays elections. He talks about
US support for the Moi dictatorship and his fear that the
corrupt Florida election of George Bush might be used as a
model for other countries.
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12/26 An Hour with Folk singer Joan Baez:
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Christmas bombing
of Hanoi. While President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger were orchestrating the heaviest bombing in the history
of the world, folksinger and anti-war activist Joan Baez was
in Hanoi bearing witness. She talks about her life, her activism
and her music.
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12/25 Christmas Special: Prayers for peace:
Reverend Al Sharpton, the former Episcopalian Bishop of New
York Reverend Paul Moore, Imam Mahdi Bray and other religious
leaders call for peace. Legacy of Peace: Father Daniel Berrigan
eulogizes his brother, Philip Berrigan; we also hear a speech
by Philip Berrigan who spoke at an anti-war rally on April
20 in Washington DC.
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12/24 Is Bill Frist another Trent Lott?
The NAACP and NOW gives the Tennessee Senator’s record
an F grade, consumer groups warn about his extensive ties
to the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Today is Frist's
first day as Senate Majority leader. Christmas under Siege:
Israeli pull back its troops in Bethlehem but warn residents
that this will be no ordinary Christmas; We go to Manger Square
and then talk to the founders of the Palestinian International
Solidarity Movement.
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12/23 Democracy Now! reports from the Muslim
Public Affairs Council convention in Long Beach, California.
“Today it’s men over the age 16 from these countries,
tomorrow it will be women over the age 16 from these countries,
then we will go to permanent residents…”: Iranian-American
attorney Banafsheh Akhlaghi speaks out against the detention
of her clients and hundreds of other men from Muslim nations
last week in Los Angeles. Have we learned the lessons of the
Japanese internment camps? Al Torres, the chair of the California
Democratic Party assails the INS and Justice Department’s
post-9/11 policies. ”The solution is not American militarism
abroad and an American police state at home. The answer is
not to give freedom to Muslim women in Afghanistan while taking
freedom away from Muslim men in the United States”:
Kenyan Professor Ali Mazrui looks at how America is hurting
itself abroad and at home
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12/20 The Central Park Five are cleared!
A Manhattan State Supreme Court judge throws out the convictions
of the five young African-American and Latino men who were
imprisoned for up to 12 years in the famous Central Park Jogger
case. "The nation’s largest law enforcement agency
vies for total spying power": the NYPD wants to watch
you. Over 1,000 Muslim men and boys have been detained in
Southern California: they had gone to the INS voluntarily,
to register under new government orders. Thousands of Argentines
attempt to shut down Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and U.S.
corporations: the protests are in commemoration of the uprising
that toppled five successive governments in two weeks last
December.
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12/19 Top secret Iraq weapons report says
the U.S. government & corporations helped to illegally
arm Iraq, Part Two: We talk again with the German
reporter who obtained leaked portions of the unedited report
that names Hewlett Packard, Dupont and Bechtel, Kodak and
20 other U.S. companies as well as Los Alamos and Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratories and the Department of Energy.
Why isn’t Ashcroft in Lotts of trouble? He did everything
in his power to fight the integration of the St. Louis schools;
in an interview with the racist Southern Partisan magazine
he praised Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery;
he intervened on behalf of a supporter of the Council of Conservative
Citizens (the ‘uptown Klan’) who was indicted
for trying to kill an FBI agent; the list goes on and on:
today, a roundtable discussion.
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12/18 Top secret Iraq weapons report says
the U.S. government & corporations helped to illegally
arm Iraq: We talk with the German reporter who obtained leaked
portions of the unedited report that names Hewlett Packard,
Dupont and Bechtel & 20 other U.S. companies as well as
Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and
the Department of Energy. Hundreds of Muslim men from around
the country have been detained as they register with immigration
authorities under new government orders: the Council on American-Islamic
Relations debates the Department of Justice. Demand for emergency
shelter sees largest increase in ten years: we'll talk
to Cheri Honkala of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union about
what poor people around the country face, as the Bush administration
prepares for a $200 billion war against Iraq.
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12/17 Transit Workers Union reaches a tentative
agreement with New York City MTA: the deal averts a strike
by workers from nation’s largest public transportation
system. Is cross-burning constitutionally protected speech,
or racial intimidation and hatred? A debate between Rodney
Smolla, attorney for three white Virginia men who burned crosses
and John Powell, founder of the Institute on Race and Poverty.
“The International Poindextering of Poindexter”:
electronic activists publish the Total Information Awareness
director’s home phone number and satellite photos of
his house.
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12/16 The second-highest ranking Senate
Republican calls for a meeting to consider Trent Lott’s
ouster: we go to Jackson, Mississippi, where African-Americans
are holding a protest against the segregationist Republican.
India lurches further to the fundamentalist religious right
as the Hindu Nationalist party wins in a landslide in Gujarat:
a citizens tribunal recently concluded the leader of the party
perpetuated the riots that left 2,000 dead, most of them Muslim.
"George W. Bush could succeed where Osama Bin Laden failed
in provoking a clash of civilizations between Islam and the
West": interview with author Dilip Hiro.
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12/13 "We hold these truths to be self
evident: Number 1, George W. Bush is not our President/Number
2, America is not a true democracy/Number 3, the media is
not fooling you, it's not fooling me" singer and
songwriter Ani DiFranco: we'll spend the hour. "It's
amazing how a big, corporate network can be threatened by
a little folk song": Ani DiFranco sings a song about
racism in America that the David Letterman show wouldn't let
her perform; she also performs "Your Next Bold Move"
and a new song "Serpentine," and talks about using
anger to change the world
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12/12 Should Trent Lott Resign? The Senate
Republican leader’s support for Strom Thurmond’s
1948“Segregation Forever” presidential campaign
generates mass calls for him to step down, he refuses. Is
the strike in Venezuela for the people, or for the businessmen?
President Hugo Chavez sends troops to regain control of the
oil industry as the strike in Venezuela enters its 11th day.
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12/11 Over 100 religious leaders and anti-war
activists are arrested outside the UN: We talk to Daniel Ellsberg
and others from jail. St. Jimmy The Lesser: Former President
Carter receives the Nobel Peace Prize; former Washington Post
columnist Colman McCarthy recalls Carter’s less than
peaceful presidency. Emmy Award-winning actor Martin Sheen
on the late Philip Berrigan: Wherever the truth is spoken,
wherever action is taken on behalf of the poor, the marginalized,
the voiceless, wherever the gospel is taken personally, Phil
Berrigan is present. Indian Casinos: Who Gets the Money? White
men and a handful of Native Americans make millions while
hundreds of thousands of Native Americans remain in poverty.
We talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters
Donald Barlett and James Steele.
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12/10 Today on International Human Rights
Day, hundreds of church leaders are marching on the United
Nations to call for peace: we talk to Martin Luther King’s
mentor and civil rights leader, Rev. James Lawson about the
role of Christian teaching and the Church in a non-violent
peace movement. Talk-back to war: people call in to Democracy
Now!’s answering machine. Over 600 gather for the funeral
of legendary anti-war activist Philip Berrigan in Baltimore:
We hear from historian Howard Zinn and Brendan Walsh, who
was arrested with Berrigan in Catonsville, Md. in 1968 for
torching military draft cards.
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12/9 Philip Berrigan, 1923-2002: The legendary
anti-war and anti-nuclear activist died in Baltimore on Friday
at Jonah House surrounded by family and friends. We broadcast
a special report from Saint Peter Claver Catholic Church,
one of his first parishes. Religious Rebel, a look at the
life of Philip Berrigan and non-violent anti-war activism:
A roundtable discussion with Plowshares activists who were
jailed for committing civil disobedience actions with Berrigan
by entering military bases and hammering on nuclear warheads
to symbolically disarm then.
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12/6 "We wanted our children to be
professionals. We wanted our children to be lawyers and doctors
and school teachers. We wanted for all children what all people
want for their children": the mothers of the Central
Park 5 speak out as the Manhattan DA asks the judge to throw
out their convictions. Manhattan DA asks the judge to throw
out the convictions of the Central Park Five: Attorney Barry
Scheck and NYC Councilman Bill Perkins call for mandatory
videotaping of police interrogations. "The court’s
role is to maintain the social order." "Jesus couldn’t
have won it." We go back in time with the words of famed
attorney William Kunstler, Sharonne Salaam, mother of Yusef
Salaam, and historian Robin Kelley on the Scottsboro Nine.
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12/5 Students confront New School University
President Bob Kerrey over his Role in the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Lott-backed
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq: at a public forum, they
demand his resignation to former Senator Bob Kerrey: Would
you support a war Crimes tribunal for your own role in massacring
Vietnamese civilians? Would you support barring CIA recruiters
from college campuses or professors working for the CIA? Manhattan
DA expected to call for dismissing Central Park Jogger 5 convictions:
Protesters gather at New York courthouse to demand justice,
we talk to attorney Michael Warren.
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12/4 Renowned anti-war icon Philip Berrigan
is quietly dying at home Surrounded by family and friends
from the Jonah House resistance community in Baltimore: We
talk with his son and daughter who are by his bedside and
rebroadcast a 1998 Democracy Now! interview with the militant
Catholic peace activist in federal prison.
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12/3 Israeli military attacks United Nations
workers and buildings: soldiers shoot dead a British UN worker,
detain Israeli and Palestinian workers, and bomb a World Food
Program warehouse. Supreme Court to decide whether affirmative
action and gay sex are legal. Manhattan DA set to determine
the fate of the Central Park Jogger rape Case this week: Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg discusses the new
evidence and the power politics that have always swirled around
this controversial case.
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12/2 9/11 Families protest selection of
Henry Kissinger to head Sept. 11 investigation: Concerns rise
over the former Secretary of State's ties to Saudi Arabia,
we talk with investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. The Israeli
Mossad, the CIA, and the Kenyan intelligence agencies work
together to determine who is behind the Kenyan bombing: We
go to Mombassa to talk with Christian Science Monitor reporter
Danna Harman. Millions mark World AIDS Day around the globe:
Meanwhile Bush Administration cracks down on AIDS groups,
censors CDC website and pushes abstinence-only policies.
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