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Today's headlines:
Remembering Palestinian Journalist Mazen Dana, Killed Yesterday
by the US Military in Iraq;
Arianna Huffington, One of the Leading Candidates for Govenor
if Grey Davis is Recalled;
5:01 PM PST
The Gubernatorial Race with Arianna Huffington, Indep. Candidate
for Govenor talking with Dennis Bernstein on the phone. Guest
in the studio Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
offers reasons for backing this progressive candidate.
Keeping it simple the ABC's of the California race. Arianna
and Arnie, Bustamante, Camejo or maybe Davis. The first two
both have thick accents, but the similarity ends there as
she explains energy culpabiity of the current administration.
Bustamante does not have a green record, Camejo does but would
withdraw and support Arianna if necessary. She explains how
Energy is not a free market, but a rigged market. Her priorities
including schools over prisons. Van Jones recommends Arianna
progressive stand.
5:28 PM PST
Music Break: Track 6 of Middle East Mix
5:30 PM PST
Audio track and voice of Mazen Dana excerpt from CBC documentary
on reports: "In the Line of Fire"."My kids
they do not want me to go out of home, because they understand
that maybe one day I will not come back":...
Mazen Dana received the 2001 International Press Freedom
Award from the Committee To Protect Journalists (CBJ). Images
from the CBJ Website. For more info, a script of Nightline
interview and Mazen's 2001acceptance remarks visit: www.cpj.org/awards01/dana.html
5:31 PM PST
The Killing of a Photographer in Iraq. Phone Guest Paul Holmes,
World Editor of Reuters talks with Dennis Bernstein. Mazen
was the second Reuters cameramen killed and the 19th journalist
either killed or missing in Iraq. For 16 years he covered
the Occupation of Palestine from his city of Hebron. He and
his partner left to cover the Iraqi Occupation. He has survived
being beaten and shot at three times, shot at with rubber
bullets over 60 times but always returned to his family. His
motto for working even at risk to his life is that "journalist's
have a message and they carry that message to an audience
that can bear witness". Paul Holmes states that Mazen
was an annonymous daily witness to the violence of Hebron.
He knew him both as a great journalist and as a great man.
Recipient of the 2001 International Peace and Freedom Award
(Committee to Protect Journalists). The Army gives the dubious
claims of "engaging the journalist", mistaking the
camera for a grenade launcher. Holmes disputes these claims
based on the evidence of other camera crews and the footage
of the shameful incident. Reuters have demanded publicly for
a full, open and public investigation be carried out immediately.
5:42 PM PST
"In the Line of Fire" Excerpt from Film by the Canadian
Broadcasting Company: Mazen Dana and the dangers."We
are the targets of soldiers because we are filming the threat.
They do not want to let the threat be published. They do not
want to let the world see what is going on here".
5:48 PM PST
Remembering Mazan Dana: Intro by Dennis, Studio guests Barbara
Lubin, Mid East Childrens Alliance accompanied by Jihad, Palestinian
student. Barbara's reflections on Mazen as "prince of
a person" and risk taker who insisted on bringing the
truth to the world and especially the US. He believed that
"Telling the truth and showing the pictures, that people
- especially here in this country might finally open their
eyes and their hearts and their minds and do something".
Jihad recalls his long relationship with friend, fellow worker
and role model for the new generation. He committed his life
to cover the conflict - he was a hero, an example and a film
producer bringing the truth to the world at great risk to
himself and his family.
comments by Kevin
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