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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
Activist Kathy Kelly 'Hogtied" & Abused By Army
At SOA Protests
Journalist Bill Moyers: "Our Democracy Is In Danger
of Being Paralyzed"
8:01-8:06 Headlines
Activist Kathy Kelly 'Hogtied" & Abused
By Army At SOA Protests
Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly is 'hogtied'
and abused by the Army after she was arrested for committing
peaceful civil disobedience outside Ft. Benning in Gergia
where 10,000 protesters had gathered to demand the closure
of a U.S. training camp known by critics as the School of
the Assassins. Over ten thousand people gathered this weekend
outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to protest the
US Army School of the Americas, a combat-training school for
Latin American soldiers. It was recently renamed the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHISC).
The protests culminated with a "funeral" procession
to symbolize the thousands of people killed by soldiers trained
at the school. More than 30 people were arrested after entering
the base in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. They
took this action knowing they could face 3-6 months in federal
prison. In years past, the arrests at the SOA protests have
been coordinated with the police. Those wanting to be arrested
simply crossed a yellow line and were then escorted to police
buses. But this year it was different.
8:06 - 8:58 Journalist Bill Moyers: "Our Democracy
Is In Danger of Being Paralyzed"
Journalist Bill Moyers recently gave the keynote address
before 2,000 people at the first ever National Conference
on Media Reform. He warned, "What we’re talking
about is nothing less than rescuing a democracy that is so
polarized it is in danger of being paralyzed and pulverized.
Alarming words, I know. But the realities we face should trigger
alarms. Free and responsible government by popular consent
just can’t exist without an informed public."
- Bill Moyers, host of the weekly PBS news program "Now
with Bill Moyers", speaking at the National Confernence
on Media Reform in Madison, Wisc.
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