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Oct 2006
 10/31
Hacking Democracy: New Documentary Exposes Vulnerability of
Electronic Voting Machines; Vote Suppression in 2006: Rule
Changes Threaten to Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of
Eligible Voters; Will a Shocking New GOP Court Victory and
Karl Rove's Attack on Ohio in 2006 Doom the Democrats Nationwide?;
Green Party Senatorial Candidate in Penn. Defends Receiving
GOP Funding in Failed Ballot Drive;
10/30
Report from Oaxaca: Federal Police Do Not Have Control of
the City; Brad Will 1970-2006: Friends Remember Indymedia
Journalist and Activist Killed in Oaxaca; Brad Will In His
Own Words: Archival Footage of Slain Journalist and Activist
Discussing the Importance of Community Media and the Struggle
Against NYC Demolition of a Lower East Side Squat; David Rovics
Pays Tribute to Fellow Musician and Friend Brad Will;
10/27
Worst Congress Ever: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on How Our
National Legislature Has Become a "Stable of Thieves
and Perverts"; NJ Supreme Court Affirms Legal Rights
for Same-Sex Couples; Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier
Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military;
10/26
In Echoes of Past Intervention, Bush Administration Opposes
Nicaraguan Frontrunner Daniel Ortega; Veteran Investigative
Journalist Bob Parry on the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Perils
of Reporting It; New York Judge Awards $19 Million to Victims
of CIA-Backed Haitian Death Squad Leader Toto Constant; Hip
Hop Artist M-1 of Dead Prez: "The Media in This Country
is an Organ of the State... It Controls What We Are Hearing
and Seeing";
10/25
Green Politics: Green Party Excluded From Mid-Term Debates;
Green Politics: Anti-War House Candidate Michael Berg on His
Debate Lock-Out in Delaware and How His Son’s Death
in Iraq Led to His Candidacy; Green Politics: Pennsylvania
Greens Take GOP Donations in Ballot Drive; Green Politics:
Anti-War Washington Senatorial Candidate Says Dems Tried to
Bribe Him Not to Run;
10/24
The Battle for Congress: John Nichols on How Anti-War and
Pro-Labor Candidates Could Help the Democrats Win Control
of Both Houses; The Battle for Congress: Tennessee’s
Harold Ford Aims to Become First Black Senator From the South
Since Reconstruction; The Battle for Congress: Can Lamont
Beat Lieberman Again? A Look at Connecticut’s Senate
Race;
10/23
The End of Maliki? Will a Coup Unravel Iraq? Robert Dreyfuss
and Raed Jarrar Discuss the War in Iraq; Does Tee Stand For
Terrorist? NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For
Wearing T-Shirt Saying “We Will Not Be Silent”
in Arabic; FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and Juan Gonzalez
on the Color of Media Consolidation;
10/20
Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Accuses Bush Administration
of Blackmailing Other Countries Over Contested UN Seat; Legendary
Historian, Attorney & Peace Activist Staughton Lynd on
War Resisters, the Peace Movement and the 1993 Lucasville
Prison Uprising;
10/19
Latino, Monitor Groups Say Proposed FCC Rules Limit Media
Diversity; Extraordinary Rendition Victim Maher Arar Accepts
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award; Ghost Plane: The True
Story of the CIA Torture Program;
10/18
Gaza in Crisis: As Military Siege Enters Fifth Month, Israel
Threatens New Military Offensive; “My Name is Rachel
Corrie” Opens in New York; Oscar-Winning Actor Vanessa
Redgrave to Present International Human Rights Award to Extraordinary
Rendition Survivor Maher Arar;
10/17
Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Sentenced to 28 Months
In Jail; Remains Free On Bail; Report From Iraq: Civil War
Intensifies From Baghdad to Balad; Iraqi Judge Sentences U.S.
Citizen To Death After U.S. Military “Demanded”
the Man Be Executed; Tariq Ali on Hugo Chavez, the Axis Of
Hope and His New Book “Pirates of the Caribbean”;
10/16
Facing Up To 30 Years in Prison, Civil Rights Attorney Lynne
Stewart Speaks Out As She Heads To Courthouse for Sentencing;
Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White
House’s Plans for Regime Change”;
10/13
“Catch a Fire”: New Film Depicts Life of South
African Freedom Fighter Patrick Chamusso; On the Day of the
Nobel Peace Prize and the Week of His 75th Birthday, An Interview
With South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu;
10/12
Co-Author of Medical Study Estimating 650,000 Iraqi Deaths
Defends Research in the Face of White House Dismissal; Did
VA Hide Figures Showing 1 in 4 US Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Disabled From Service?; New Jersey Prisoners Threaten Hunger
Over “Abu-Ghraib-like” Conditions; Abu Ghraib
at Home: New Human Rights Watch Report Says US Using Dogs
to Terrify Prisoners;
10/11
North Korea Warns of New Tests As Nuclear Standoff Intensifies;
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate With
Columbia Student Organizer; Cable News Confidential: FAIR
Founder Jeff Cohen on his misadventures in corporate media;
10/10
Twilight of the Assassins: Why the U.S. Refuses to Prosecute
the Cuban Exiles Luis Posada Carriles & Orlando Bosch
For the 1976 Bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455; Sarah
Chayes on Life in Afghanistan After the Taliban and Why She
Left NPR;
10/9
The Start of An Asian Nuclear Arms Race? North Korea Tests
First Nuclear Weapon; Anna Politkovskaya, Prominent Russian
Journalist, Putin Critic and Human Rights Activist, Murdered
in Moscow; Police Shoot Protesters With Tasers at Pittsburgh
Demo Against Jeb Bush & Sen. Rick Santorum;
10/6
Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda
of Silence; Challenging Columbus Day: Denver Organizers Discuss
Why They Protest the Holiday;
10/5
Denver Man Sues Secret Service for Arrest After He Criticized
Cheney on Iraq War; Bolivia Delegation Urges U.S. to Notify
Ex-President Sanchez de Lozada of Obligation to Return to
Trial for 2003 Massacre; Bolivian Activist Oscar Olivera on
Bechtel's Privatization of Rainwater and Why Evo Morales Should
Remember the Ongoing Struggle Over Water; Afghanistan Inc.:
New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad
Work";
10/4
"Classic Washington Pushoff" - Fmr. Counterrorism
Advisor Rand Beers on Rice's Reported Dismissal of Pre-9/11
CIA Warnings; SEIU Leader Andy Stern on "Getting America
Back on Track"; Actor Mark Ruffalo on His Decision To
Speak Out Against the Bush Administration; Tensions High in
Oaxaca as Fox Warns Force Might Be Used to Crush Uprising;
10/3
Calls Increase for Hastert to Resign Over Foley Scandal; First
Member of SHAC 7 Heads to Jail for Three Year Sentence; War
Resister Darrell Anderson Returns From Canada to Face Possible
Charges;
10/2
"A Swashbuckling Spectacle of Corruption" - Bill
Moyers Investigates Abramoff Lobbying Scandal;
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