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Today's lead stories:
FCC Decision Altered
Women of Burma Day
Juneteenth Commemorations
Forest Activist Training
Le Bourget Air Show
FCC Decision Altered
The Senate Commerce Committee has voted to overturn parts
of a Federal Communications Commission decision to allow greater
consolidation in the media markets. The bill's fate in the
full Senate is uncertain, and faces a tougher time in the
House. Josh Chaffin files this report from Capitol Hill.
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Women of Burma Day
Today, on the birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner and democratically
elected Burmese political leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese
military government stated that it took seriously the calls
for her release, but was not prepared to say when she may
be released from captivity, according to an Associated Press
report. Meanwhile, people all over the world have been holding
vigils for her safe release. The Burmese military government
recently rearrested Suu Kyi for QOUTE: ‘ her own protection
and will release her when tensions ease.’ She has now
spent seven birthdays in prison. Today, in honor of Suu Kyi’s
birthday, the people of Burma and people around the world
are celebrating Women of Burma Day. FSRN correspondent Ingrid
Drake reports from Northern Thailand, where hundreds of women
in exile from Burma are working for justice, peace, and gender
equality in their native land.
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Juneteenth Commemorations
Across the United States today, celebrations are marking
the declaration of the end of slavery for African Americans
in the Southwest. News of the Emancipation Proclamation made
by President Abraham Lincoln following the Civil War first
reached Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 – two and
half years AFTER it had been issued. This historic event was
first celebrated only in rural areas where people of color
owned land, but the holiday is now officially recognized by
the state of Texas and people across the state are celebrating
in different ways. Richard Hannah has more from Houston.
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Forest Activist Training
As the Senate gears up for hearings on the Healthy Forest
Initiative next week, Forest Activists are taking to the woods
to get training in Non-Violent, direct action. One such initiative
is the ‘Buckeye Forest Council’s Regional Camp’,
in Ohio and another is the ‘Threatened Forests, Threatened
Freedoms’ Camp, run by Greenpeace in Western Montana.
Leigh Robartes talked with organizers of the Greenpeace Camp
and files this report from Missoula, Montana.
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Le Bourget Air Show
Reports of more protestors setting themselves on fire continue
to dominate international headlines. According to these reports,
an exiled Iranian political leader doused himself with petrol
and lit a match in the heart of Paris; an Iranian man and
woman also set themselves alight just hours apart outside
the French embassy in London, and Swiss police stopped a man
in Berne from doing the same. This as, Le Bourget air show,
the world’s largest meeting of aerospace industry leaders
enters its sixth day. The grounding of the Franco-British
Supersonic airliner Concorde marked the event -which ends
on Sunday -. However, observers note that defense ministries
of industrialized nations are increasingly interested in ‘Drones’,
unmanned aerial vehicles, used for spying, combat and civilian
purposes. In the US, calls by congressmen to boycott the event
fell on deaf ears, but tension between the US and France has
been reflected in the low US turnout at the event. FSRN’s
Nic Champeaux reports on the downscaled US presence at the
exhibition.
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