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Katrina vanden Heuvel on U.S.-Russian Relations
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on South Africa, Poverty and Militarism
Race and Imprisonment in Texas: The Disparate Incarceration
of Latinos and African Americans in the Lone Star State
Remembering Latino Journalist Ruben Salazar Who Was Gunned
Down in 1970 by the LAPD
Katrina vanden Heuvel on U.S.-Russian Relations
President Bush is due to meet Russian president Vladimir
Putin in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava today on the
last leg of his European tour. We examine U.S.-Russian relations
with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine.
President Bush is due to meet Russian president Vladimir
Putin in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava today on the
last leg of his European tour.
The meeting is expected to be dominated by the political
situation in Russia with Bush calling on Putin to maintain
democracy. The Kremlin's centralization of power and curtailment
of press freedoms have come under criticism as well as the
Russian government's alleged role in the break-up of energy
giant Yukos.
Bush is reportedly under pressure from some senior politicians
to make clear to Putin that his friendship with the US is
at risk. Two senior senators have even called for Russia to
be stripped of its membership of the G8 group of industrialized
nations.
The summit is also expected to cover nuclear terrorism, Washington's
stance on Iran, North Korea, Russian arms sales, and the increasing
U.S. influence in former Soviet republics. Agreements on safeguarding
nuclear materials and curbing the sale of shoulder-launch
missile systems are expected to be signed.
Bush set the tone for today's meeting with Putin at a keynote
address in Brussels on Tuesday.
- President Bush, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, February
21, 2005.
- Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The
Nation and longtime analyst on U.S.-Russian relations.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on South Africa, Poverty
and Militarism
Nobel Peace prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks
after receiving an honorary doctorate of humane letters from
Fordham University. He says, "South Africa, improbably,
divinely amusingly, has become a beacon of hope. If peace
could come to South Africa, then peace could come any- and
everywhere."
We turn now to the words of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He
was one of the leading figures in the anti-apartheid movement
in South Africa and served as chair of the country's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission. A Nobel Peace laureate, Tutu
has been a longtime campaigner for human rights and the eradication
of poverty across the globe.
On Wednesday, he received an honorary doctorate of humane
letters from Fordham University in New York City. After receiving
the award, he spoke in the University Church about South Africa,
global poverty and militarism.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, speaking in New York City, February
23, 2005.
Race and Imprisonment in Texas: The Disparate Incarceration
of Latinos and African Americans in the Lone Star State
A newly-released study from the Justice Policy Institute
called "Race and Imprisonment in Texas" finds, in
part, that finds that African-Americans are incarcerated at
five times the rate of whites in Texas and that Latinos are
incarcerated nearly twice as much as whites." We speak
with the author of the report. [includes rush
transcript]
The Justice Policy Institute is releasing a report today
called "Race and Imprisonment in Texas; The disparate
incarceration of Latinos and African Americans in the Lone
Star State."
The report finds that African-Americans are incarcerated
at five times the rate of whites in Texas and that Latinos
are incarcerated nearly twice as much as whites. The study
also estimates that lost economic productivity due to the
imprisonment of African-Americans in Texas is more than $1
billion dollars.
Remembering Latino Journalist Ruben Salazar Who Was
Gunned Down in 1970 by the LAPD
Salazar died after being shot by tear gas projectile shortly
after he was covering the Chicano anti-Vietnam War Moratorium
rally in East Los Angeles in 1970. He was a reporter and columnist
at the Los Angeles Times and the news director of Spanish-language
television station KMEX in Los Angeles. Juan Gonzalez and
Amy Goodman reflect on his life, 35 years after he was killed.
[includes rush
transcript]
- Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
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