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Day of Protest Decries Deaths in Haiti
What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United
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Day of Protest Decries Deaths in Haiti
In Haiti violence continues two weeks after a UN raid in
Cite Soleil may have left as many as 23 people dead. Today
there are coordinated protests in Brazil and ten cities throughout
North America. We go to Port-au-Prince to hear from Lavalas
leader Father Gerard Jean-Juste. [includes rush
transcript]
We go first to Haiti, where violence continues to wrack the
capital of Port-au-Prince. More than 700 people have been
killed since September. Today a coordinated day of protest
is planned to condemn the July 6th UN raid on Cite Soleil,
which may have left as many as 23 Haitian civilians dead.
The protests in Brazil and ten North American cities follows
a demonstration by more than 5,000 people in City Soleil last
week.
Also this week, prominent political leader Father Gerard
Jean-Juste was detained by police and falsely accused of bringing
weapons, bombs and money for mercenaries back to Haiti from
Miami. Father Jean-Juste is a prominent leader in ousted president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party. Lavalas is calling
for a boycott of upcoming elections unless Aristide is allowed
to return from exile in South Africa.
This comes as a U.S.-backed advisory council that oversees
Haiti's interim government recommended Saturday that Lavalas
be barred from upcoming elections, accusing the party of encouraging
violence. And last week, journalist Jacques Roche, cultural
editor with the daily Le Matin, was kidnapped and murdered.
Some are pinning the murder on Lavalas forces.
- Father Gerard Jean-Juste, Roman Catholic priest in Haiti
and possible Lavalas presidential candidate. Speaking from
Port-au-Prince.
More information on the protests at Haiti
Action Committee.
What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the
United States
As London prepares for the 2012 olympics in the aftermath
of the July 7 bombings, we look at the history of crackdowns
in olympic cities over the past century. Sports writer Dave
Zirin chronicles a history of athletes who have stood up to
war and racism in the United States, from Muhammad Ali to
Pat Tillman. His new book is "What's My Name, Fool?:
Sports and Resistance in the United States." [includes
rush
transcript - partial]
Two weeks after the London bombings that left over 50 people
dead and hundreds wounded, the city's mayor, Ken Livingstone,
is blaming western foreign policy as motivating the attackers
and giving rise to Muslim extremism.
In an interview with the BBC news on Wednesday, Livingstone
said, "If at the end of the First World War we had done
what we promised the Arabs, which was to let them be free
and have their own governments, and kept out of Arab affairs,
and just bought their oil, rather than feeling we had to control
the flow of oil, I suspect this wouldn't have arisen."
Livingstone also referred to the Israeli occupation of Palestine,
Guantanamo Bay, and policies of foreign occupation as fueling
extremism.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing to hold
talks with police and intelligence chiefs to establish what
further powers they need in the wake of the attacks.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke told British MPs of plans to
set up a global database of extremists who face automatic
vetting before being allowed into the country. The database
would list "unacceptable behaviour" such as radical
preaching, websites and writing articles intended to foment
terrorism.
Clarke also said that Britain had reached an agreement with
Jordan which would enable Britain to deport Jordanian nationals
suspected of inciting or supporting terrorism. Under international
convention, the British government cannot send people back
to a country where they might face mistreatment or the death
penalty. This new agreement removes this bar to deportations.
While the aftermath of the London bombings continue to be
front-page news around the world, few people remember that
one day earlier, London won a closely-fought bid to host the
2012 Olympics. History shows that the bringing of Olympics
to a city also brings the the utter immiseration of civil
liberties.
- Dave Zirin, News Editor of the Prince George's Post,
for which he writes the weekly column, Edge of Sports. He
is the monthly sports commentator for Air America's "So
What Else Is News." His new book is, "What's My
Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States."
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