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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
U.S. Launches Operation Iron Hammer; Berlusconi to Keep Italian
Troops in Iraq Following Nasiriyah Bombing
“We Need To Go City By City And Take Back The Media
For The People” - Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley
Speaks Out on Corporate Media
Tell Us The Truth: Billy Bragg and Hip-Hop Artist Boots
Riley On Music, War and the Media
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 U.S. Launches Operation Iron Hammer; Berlusconi
to Keep Italian Troops in Iraq Following Nasiriyah Bombing
INTRO: U.S. forces stepped up security across Iraq and Italian
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rejected calls to bring troops
home following the attack in the southern town of Nasiriyah
which killed up to 31 people including at least 18 Italians.
Author and Voices in the Wilderness founder Milan Rai and
professor Silvia Federici join us in our studio.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rejected calls Wednesday
to bring troops home following a suicide attack in Nasiriyah
that killed 31 people, including at least 18 Italians. The
attack marked Italy's worst military combat loss since World
War II.
Addressing a special session of the Senate, Berlusconi called
for continued support for the approximately 2,300 Italian
troops in Iraq. He said “I expect proof of loyalty and
democratic maturity regarding those who have lost their lives."
Berlusconi supported the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq despite
massive protests in major cities across Italy in the build-up
to the invasion. In the February 15th antiwar demonstrations,
up to 3 million people took to the streets in Rome alone.
- Milan Rai, author of War Plan Iraq and one of the founders
of Voices in the Wilderness, UK. His latest book is Regime
Unchanged Why the War on Iraq Chaned Nothing (Pluto).
- Silvia Federici, associate professor in Political Philosophy
at Hofstra University, and coordinator of the Committee
for Academic Freedom in Africa. She is the editor of several
books including "Enduring Western Civilization: The
Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and
Its Others”
8:26-8:27 One Minute Music Break
8:27-8:42 “We Need To Go City By City And
Take Back The Media For The People” - Newspaper Guild
President Linda Foley Speaks Out on Corporate Media
INTRO: We play a speech by Newspaper Guild President Linda
Foley speaking at the National Conference on Media Reform
in Madison Wisconsin last weekend.
The National Conference on Media Reform was held in Madison,
Wisconsin last weekend. Organizers expected about 200 people
at the event – over 2,000 showed up. The crowd was so
large, many could not fit in the Wisconsin Memorial Union's
Great Hall for the opening session of the conference.
The event brought together labor, community, and media activists
as well as FCC and Congress members for three days to consider
ways to get the public more involved in debates over media
policy.
Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley was one of the many
speakers at the conference. Addressing a packed crowd, Foley
addressed the issue of media consolidation and pointed out
how media bias comes from institutions more than from reporters.
- Linda Foley, President of the Newspaper Guild of America
and Communications Workers of America speaking at the National
Conference On Media Reform, Friday November 7, 2003.
Link: www.newsguild.org
8:42-8:44 One Minute Music Break
8:44-8:58 Tell Us The Truth: Billy Bragg and Hip-Hop
Artist Boots Riley On Music, War and the Media
Democracy Now! interviews British singer-songwriter and
political activist Billy Bragg and Boots Riley, rapper with
the Oakland hip-hop group the Coup who joined other musicians
to kick off the Tell Us The Truth Tour at the opening session
of the National Conference on Media Reform last Friday.
- Billy Bragg, British singer-songwriter and political
activist.
- Boots Riley, hip-hop artist with the band The Coup.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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