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Today's lead stories:
Redeployment, Not Withdrawal in Bethlehem
Unemployment Rates Released Today
Portable Classrooms = Environmental Danger
Immigrants Fighting for Rights in Minnesota
Indigenous People of India Under Attack
Free Speech Radio News
European Union parliament overturned a ban on genetically
modified food products - Patrick Beckett
Preparations for another U.S. ordered regime change in Liberia
- Charles Taylor
US soldiers in Iraq at risk, say former soldiers - Erica Price
Walmart has adopted a policy banning discrimination based
on sexual orientation - John Hamilton
Federal Communications Commission released the much-anticipated
new rules on media ownership - James Cullem
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Redeployment, Not Withdrawal in Bethlehem
(3:30)
While the hand-over of power of Israeli occupied areas from
the Israeli army to the Palestinian Authority is underway,
many reports are emerging of continued abuses by the IDF.
At the Rafa border crossing, several hundred people have been
stuck for days while in Gaza yesterday, shortly after opening
a settler access road, the Israeli army shut it down again
today, denying access to Palestinians trying to cross. This
as Israel’s defense minister, Shaul Mofaz today said
that Israel will “have to wait a while” before
handing over more occupied West Bank cities and towns to Palestinian
control, this comes on the heels of yesterday’s highly
publicized Israeli military withdrawal from Bethlehem. Yet
as our correspondent in Bethlehem, Awad Duiabes reports, Palestinian
residents of the city say that what occurred yesterday was
in fact a redeployment of Israeli troops.
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Unemployment Rates Released Today (3:35)
As you go out for your Independence Day hot dog, the unemployment
figures released by the government today indicate the worst
economy for working people in 9 years. Josh Chaffin has this
report from D.C.
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Portable Classrooms = Environmental Danger (3:45)
The National Education Association says that one in three
schools nationwide use portable classrooms. In California
about 2 million children take classes in about 80,000 portable
classrooms statewide. The “Portable Classrooms Study”
recently released by the California Department of Health and
the Air Resources Board indicates that portables are failing
to meet indoor air quality standards. The study, the largest
of its kind, tested 1,000 classrooms around California. The
results confirm earlier smaller studies by two environmental
organizations: Formaldehyde levels are too high. Kellia Ramares
filed this report.
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Immigrants Fighting for Rights in Minnesota (3:35)
There are over 33 million recent immigrants in the United
States, often refugees from politically or economically ravaged
countries. And in this political climate of equating immigrants
with terrorists, times are increasingly difficult. But Minnesotan
immigrants from Africa, Asia and Latin America are coming
together to strengthen their public voice and demand respect
and dignity for their communities. From St. Paul, Hannah Lewis
reports.
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Indigenous People of India Under Attack (4:00)
The government of India is attempting to evict India’s
indigenous people from the lands they have lived on for generations.
Though historically, the indigenous of India were the only
tribe to have resisted the centuries old colonial system,
they are never recognized as freedom fighters. Instead, the
government's forest department is now trying to prove that
these people who have been living in their land for generations
have trespassed on the jurisdiction of forest department that
was formed recently. While the 1992 United Nations Rio de
Janeiro Declaration on Environment and Development, proclaims
that states should recognize and duly support indigenous peoples'
identity, culture and interests, and enable their participation
in the achievement of sustainable development, indigenous
people in India say they are at the mercy of the government
and large land owners. But as Binu Alex reports from Central
India, a slow rebellion is building among India’s native
peoples.
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