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Arnold Forced to Admit He “Behaved Badly” Towards
Women and Deny Reports That He Admired Hitler
Nearly 1,000 Immigrant Workers Arrive in New York to End
Cross-Country Freedom Rides
Hugo Chavez Says U.S. is Harboring “Terrorists”
Plotting to Assassinate Him
Poet, Author, Priest, Activist Dan Berrigan Remembers His
Brother Phil
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 Arnold Forced to Admit He “Behaved
Badly” Towards Women and Deny Reports That He Admired
Hitler
INTRO: Just days before the California recall election,
we speak with former gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington
about the recent reports that have rocked Schwarzenegger's
campaign and why she is now urging voters to oppose the recall
and keep Gov. Gray Davis in office.
Five days before the Oct. 7 California recall election, Republican
candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced to deny comments
he made 25 years ago that he admired Adolf Hitler and wished
he too could enjoy a stadium full of screaming fans.
Schwarzenegger was quoted as making the comments in a 1975
transcript of an interview while filming the documentary "Pumping
Iron" that made him famous.
ABC News, which broadcast the remarks on Thursday, said they
were contained in an unpublished book proposal with quotes
from what it calls a "verbatim transcript" of the
interview.
Asked about his heroes, the young Schwarzenegger was quoted
as saying; "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he
came from being a little man with almost no formal education,
up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker
and for what he did with it."
The transcript continues with Arnold saying he wished he
could experience being "like Hitler in the Nuremberg
stadium and have all those people scream at you and just being
total agreement whatever you say."
The story came just hours after The Los Angeles Times reported
the accusations of six women who accused Schwarzenegger of
sexually harassing and groping them over the past three decades.
The actor later apologized at the start of a statewide bus
tour in San Diego and acknowledged that he had "behaved
badly" to women. The tour-bus was unfortunately named
Predator.
The feminist group Code Pink plans statewide protests today
demanding that Schwarzenegger quit the race.
Californians by an increasingly wide margin want to replace
Democratic Gov. Gray Davis with Schwarzenegger. This according
to a Field Poll released today. This is the third this week
to show the actor gaining momentum and Davis losing ground.
However, voters were surveyed before the latest sexual allegations
and reports of admiration for Hitler.
Two days ago, independent candidate Arianna Huffington dropped
out of the recall election and is now urging voters to keep
Davis in office. Huffington said, "It has become clear
to me over the last 48 hours that the only way to stop a Republican
takeover of California is to vote no on the recall. My supporters
are very galvanized to stop Arnold Schwarzenegger."
- Arianna Huffington, writer and commentator who was running
as an independent candidate in the California gubernatorial
recall race. She is now urging voters to oppose the recall
and keep Gov. Gray Davis in office.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:35 Nearly 1,000 Immigrant Workers Arrive in
New York to End Cross-Country Freedom Rides
INTRO: Hundreds of immigrants and their supporters around
the country, who have been staging Immigrant Workers Freedom
Rides for the last two weeks to call for better working conditions
for undocumented workers, will converge in New York for a
major rally this weekend.
For the last two weeks hundreds of immigrants around the
country have been staging Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides
to call for better working conditions for undocumented workers.
The rides are inspired by the original civil rights freedom
riders took place in 1961 to protest segregation.
Some 900 travelers in 18 buses have visited nearly 100 sites
throughout the country in a nationwide demonstration advocating
for reforms, including the legalization of undocumented workers
in the U.S. The riders are made up of a diverse crowd including
Mexicans, Bangladeshis, Somalis, undocumented workers and
longtime US citizens.
The riders are pushing for better conditions for legal as
well as illegal immigrants. Their four-point agenda focuses
on workplace policies, civil liberties, faster reunification
of families, as well as official status for illegal workers.
The AFL-CIO is among the sponsors of this week's bus ride,
along with interfaith organizations, and immigrant-advocacy
groups.
Organizers are quick to point out that some of the riders
are illegal immigrants, who face being deported. But riders
said any risk is worth it.
The 18 buses of the freedom ride are scheduled to go today
to Liberty State Park in Jersey City for a large rally and
then to Flushing Meadows tomorrow where more than 100,000
immigrants and their supporters are expected to converge.
- Pramila Jayapal, Exec Director of the Hate Free Zone Campaign
of Washington and Co-Chair of the Seattle Immigrant Workers
Freedom Ride Coalition.
Link: www.hatefreezone.org,
www.iwfr.org
- Ahmed Noor, an Immigrant from Somalia who is in the US
since 1997, sought asylum, was denied, arrested and put
into deportation proceedings.
8:35-8:45 Hugo Chavez Says U.S. is Harboring “Terrorists”
Plotting to Assassinate Him
INTRO: Citing security threats, the Venezuelan president
last week canceled a planned visit to New York. Meanwhile
U.S. intelligence officers are lobbying charges that it is
Chavez who is harboring Islamic fundamentalists in Venezuela.
We talk to Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week called on the
United States to crack down on what he described as Cuban
and Venezuelan terrorists training in Florida to kill him.
Last week Chavez canceled a planned trip to the United States
because of security threats.
Meanwhile a recent report in US News and World Reports tiled
“Terror Close to Home” charges that Venezuela
is emerging as QUOTE “a potential hub of terrorism in
the Western Hemisphere.” The article claims Chavez has
provided assistance to Islamic fundamentalists.
The magazine claims that Venezuela has given social security-like
cards to thousands of foreigners including many from Middle
Eastern nations including Syria, Pakistan, Egypt and Lebanon.
The U.S. government has warned that by giving out these ID
documents, terrorists could more easily obtain Venezuelan
passports and U.S. visas.
US News and World Reports also claims that US intelligence
officials are investigating whether a Venezuelan of Arab descent
named Hakim Mamad al Diab Fatah had ties to any of the Sept.
11 hijackers. One official described him as a person of interest.
The article goes on to claim close ties between Chavez’s
government and the Columbian rebel group FARC.
- Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela Ambassador to the U.S.
8:45-8:46 One Minute Music Break
8:46-8:58 Poet, Author, Priest, Activist Dan Berrigan
Remembers His Brother Phil
INTRO: Hundreds of people are gathering in New York City
to remember the life of legendary peace activist Phil Berrigan
who would have turned 80 years old this weekend. His brother,
the Reverend Daniel Berrigan, joins us in our firehouse studios
to remember him.
Legendary peace activist Phil Berrigan would have been 80
years old tomorrow. He and his brother Daniel Berrigan became
household names in 1968 when they and 7 others entered a draft
board in Catonsville, Maryland, removed hundreds of A-1 Draft
files that were being used to send young men to Vietnam. They
took the files to the parking lot and burned them with homemade
napalm. Their action became known as the Catonsville Nine.
It was not Berrigan’s first time in prison and it wouldn’t
be his last. In fact Phil Berrigan would go on to spend nearly
a decade behind bars for his non-violent direct actions against
war and nuclear weapons. In 1980, Phil Berrigan, his brother
Dan and 6 others entered the General Electric plant in King
of Prussia, Pennsylvania and hammered on nuclear warheads
with household hammers. This began the movement that would
become Phil’s lifework, the Plowshares Movement.
This weekend hundreds of people are gathering in New York
City to remember the life of Phil Berrigan. Among the people
who will be speaking this Saturday, historian Howard Zinn,
former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Phil’s wife—Liz
McAlister, his daughter—Frida and his brother, the Reverend
Daniel Berrigan, who joins us today in our studios.
- Dan Berrigan, poet, author, priest, activist.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdul Kouddous,
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Rich Kim, Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny
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