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Today's lead stories:
WSF and Empire
Petition Against War
Privatizing CA's Water
AP Byline Strike
Detentions Increase in Palestine
Story: WSF and Empire
Today is Day Two of the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre,
Brazil. The third annual meeting of international progressive
social movements coincides with the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are addressing the Davos meeting
at a time when even multinational corporate interests are
growing skeptical of US war plans. Meanwhile in Porto Allegre,
peace and social justice activists spent the day discussing
what should be done about what they call "The Empire"
- the United States of America. Josh Chaffin reports.
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Story: Petition Against War
As President Bush appears increasingly poised to invade
Iraq, the anti-war movement is growing and diversifying its
strategies of resistance. Coming on the heels of last weekend's
massive demonstrations, a petition for peace addressed to
the President and signed by hundreds of thousands of Americans
was delivered this week to over 400 congressional offices.
Nadja Middleton reports from New York where the second largest
number of petition signators live.
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Story: Privatizing CA's Water
The state of California is infamous for its battles over
water. From last summer's catastrophic fish die-off in the
Klamath River, where conflict between farmers and the fishing
industry has escalated in recent years, to the impending crisis
in Southern California where supply is increasing development,
the state's water woes are often in the news. The latest controversy
involves a business venture to gain the water rights to northern
California's rivers and sell it to thirsty counties in the
south of the state. Alicia Littletree reports.
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Story: AP Byline Strike
Reporters at the nation's largest news agency withheld their
bylines for two days this week to protest the lack of a new
contract. The union representing reporters at the Associated
Press says that good journalists are leaving the organization
because of its low wages and benefits. Nell Geiser reports.
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Story: Detentions Increase in Palestine
The wife of a suspected Palestinian "wanted man"
was detained on her way to the World Social Forum in Brazil,
a forum that last year condemned the Sharon Government for
its treatment of Palestinians. Palestinian human rights group
and relatives of Ablah Saadat, said she was arrested as she
tried to cross from the West Bank to Jordan. Many say this
latest arrest is yet another example of guilt by association,
which is reason enough for the Israeli Army to arrest Palestinians.
And the arrest comes as Israel is holding more than one thousand
Palestinian prisoners without charge or trial in what they
call"administrative detention". this is the first
time the number of prisoners has risen so high in over a decade,
and human rights groups are calling on Israel to either charge
the prisoners - or release them - and to stop this policy.
Irris Makler reports from Jerusalem.
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