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Suspects in Murder of Indymedia Journalist Brad Will On Loose
in Oaxaca
Casualties Mount in New Israeli Attack on Gaza
Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right, Values
Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006
Karl’s Rove Secret: Bush’s “Architect”
Launched Anti-Gay Marriage Campaign After Burying Gay Father
Suspects in Murder of Indymedia Journalist Brad Will
On Loose in Oaxaca
Press reports out of Mexico indicate the gunmen suspected
of murdering New York journalist Brad Will are missing and
not in police custody. We speak with independent journalist
John Gibler in Oaxaca. [includes rush
transcript]
Press reports out of Mexico indicate the gunmen suspected
of murdering New York journalist Brad Will are missing and
not in police custody. Will died on Friday after being shot
by paramilitaries in Oaxaca. The 36-year-old Indymedia journalist
had his videocamera in his hand. Photos taken at the time
of the shooting show the armed men who carried out the attack.
They have been identified as local police officers and government
officials. Initially a local mayor said five men had been
detained. But the Mexican papers Milenio and Noticias de Oaxaca
are now reporting that no arrests have been made.
John Gibler joins us on the phone from Oaxaca. He is an independent
journalist and a human rights fellow with Global Exchange.
- John Gibler. Independent journalist based in Mexico and
a Human Rights Fellow with Global Exchange.
Brad Will’s body is on route to his family in Wisconsin.
There will be a memorial for in New York City at St. Mark’s
Church, between 1:00pm and 5:00 pm on November 11th.
Casualties Mount in New Israeli Attack on Gaza
A least three Palestinians have been killed and more than
15 wounded in northern Gaza on the second day of a major Israeli
offensive. Eight Palestinians and an Israeli soldier died
during clashes on Wednesday. The raid is one of Israel’s
biggest operations since re-invading Gaza last June. We go
now to Gaza to speak with activist and Oxford University Refugee
Studies Centre fellow Jennifer Loewenstein. [includes rush
transcript]
We turn now to the Occupied Territories where at least three
Palestinians have been killed and more than fifteen wounded
in northern Gaza on the second day of a major Israeli offensive.
The dead include a 70 year-old Palestinian man who was shot
in the head by Israeli troops when he went onto the balcony
of his home to take his disabled son inside.
Eight Palestinians and an Israeli soldier died during clashes
on Wednesday. The raid is one of Israel’s biggest operations
since re-invading Gaza last June. Helicopter gunships fired
missiles onto the town of Beit Hanoun, tanks patrolled the
streets, snipers took up rooftop positions and troops conducted
house-to-house searches.
Both the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and
the prime minister, Ismail Haniya, have described the Israeli
military action as a massacre. Israeli forces have made regular
incursions into Gaza over the past four months, following
the capture of an Israeli soldier in late June by Palestinian
militants. Since then, over 300 Palestinians - the majority
of them civilian have been killed. Three Israeli soldiers
have also been killed.
We go now to Gaza to speak with Jennifer Loewenstein, a visiting
research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.
She is working on a book about the transformation of the national
Palestinian movement. She joins us on the line from Gaza City.
- Jennifer Loewenstein. Visiting research fellow at the
Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. She is working
on a book about the transformation of the national Palestinian
movement.
Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right,
Values Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006
A new article looks at how the 2004 strategy of the religious
right has been revived for this election. Co-authors Chip
Berlet and Pam Chamberlain write: “Although leaders
of the Christian Right almost universally deny it, the goal
of this revived campaign is to elect Republicans to office.
The enemy being denounced is sometimes generic: gays, liberals,
secularists, the left-leaning media and Hollywood; and sometimes
specific: Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Rosie O’Donnell
and the ACLU, but the actual target is the Democratic Party
and its candidates.” Chip Berlet joins us from Boston.
[includes rush
transcript]
As we approach the mid-term elections next Tuesday, our Democracy
Now! election coverage continues. On November 7th, several
states will vote on ballot measures to ban same-sex marriage.
Republicans are hoping that this will boost turnout of conservative
Christian voters in crucial congressional races. In the 2004
Presidential elections, the Christian Right mobilized voters
to come out and vote for President Bush. According to exit
polls, white evangelical or born-again Christians made up
a quarter of the electorate, and 78 percent of them voted
Republican.
This September, 1700 Christian Right grass roots activists
gathered in Washington D.C for the Values Voter Summit which
was built around the slogan “Family, Faith, and Freedom.”
Speakers like James Dobson of Focus on the Family openly boasted
of meeting with Republican leaders in the prior weeks and
reminded the audience of the major role the Christian Right
played in electing Bush. The event also showcased 2008 Presidential
hopefuls and Senator George Allen who has been running in
a very close race in Virginia.
A new article looks at how the 2004 strategy of the religious
right has been revived for this election. In ‘Running
Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right, Values Voters
and the Culture Wars in 2006,’ - writers Chip Berlet
and Pam Chamberlain write: “Although leaders of the
Christian Right almost universally deny it, the goal of this
revived campaign is to elect Republicans to office. The enemy
being denounced is sometimes generic: gays, liberals, secularists,
the left-leaning media and Hollywood; and sometimes specific:
Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Rosie O’Donnell and the ACLU,
but the actual target is the Democratic Party and its candidates.”
- Chip Berlet. Senior analyst at Political Research Associates
in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is co-author of the report
“Running Against Sodom and Osama: The Christian Right,
Values Voters and the Culture Wars in 2006.”
Karl’s Rove Secret: Bush’s “Architect”
Launched Anti-Gay Marriage Campaign After Burying Gay Father
The Washington Post recently reported that there is widespread
panic amid the Republican establishment about next week’s
midterm elections. But the paper found that there are two
people whose confidence about Republicans prospects strikes
even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat --
President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. Does
Rove know something the rest of the country doesn’t?
James Moore, co-author of the new book “The Architect:
Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power”, helps
us answer the question, and also talks about Rove’s
secret: in July 2004, Karl Rove launched the national Republican
campaign against gay marriage within days of burying his gay
father. [includes rush
transcript]
The Washington Post recently reported that there is widespread
panic amid the Republican establishment about next week’s
midterm elections. But the paper found that there are two
people whose confidence about Republicans prospects strikes
even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat.
They are President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl
Rove. Last week Rove told National Public Radio’s Robert
Siegel about why he remains so optimistic.
Karl Rove: "Unlike the general public, I'm allowed
to see the polls on the individual races and after all, this
does come to individual contests between individual candidates...
I'm looking at all these, Robert, and adding them up, and
I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You
may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your
math, I'm entitled to the math."
Karl Rove’s comments have led many to ask whether he
knows something that the rest of the country doesn’t?
To help answer that question we are joined by journalist James
Moore in Austin Texas. He is co-author of the new book “The
Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power.”
He is also co-author of “Bush’s Brain: How Karl
Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential.”
- James Moore. Co-author of the new book “The Architect:
Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power.”
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