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Today's lead stories:
Military Tribunal Trials Announced
Bush’s Africa Policy
Community Environmental Victory in CT
Little Progress for Palestinians
Obstacles for Iraqi Journalists
Free Speech Radio News Headlines
President Bush's Head Start Policy
Act-Up Protests at the White House
Housing Activists Demonstrate in Montreal
Turkish Troops are Freed
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Military Tribunal Trials Announced
The White House announced Friday the first 6 designations
of Guantanamo detainees to go before a military tribunal.
While the Administration did not release names of those designated
for military trials, they were obliged to inform the home
governments, and today the British government raised “strong
objections” to the US use of closed military tribunals
which two British citizens being held at Guantanamo Bay will
face. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told Colin Powell
that his government was opposed to the military tribunals
and is due to talk with Powell on the issue again this week.
Deepa Fernandes spoke with Steven Watt, human rights attorney
with the Center for Constitutional Rights and part of the
team representing the two British detainees.
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Bush’s Africa Policy
US military personnel are on the ground in Liberia, arriving
this morning with the stated mission of assessing the security
situation. This after yesterday, Liberian President Charles
Taylor accepted a Nigerian offer of asylum with full immunity
if he stepped aside as the country’s president. And
today President Bush begins his Africa trip, starting in Senegal
and visiting Nigeria, South Africa and Botswana. Tomorrow
we begin our coverage from Senegal of the President’s
visit, but today Ingrid Drake takes a look at the Bush Administration’s
Africa Policy.
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Community Environmental Victory in CT
Recently on a hot, hazy day in New Haven, Connecticut, as
pollution hung in the air and residents with breathing problems
wheezed, environmental and community activists won an important
victory. In what could be a national model, a combination
of grassroots organizing and people's lawyering convinced
the state's top environmental official to rule against the
reopening of an old oil-fired power plant in a low-income,
largely Latino neighborhood, in order to protect the health
of thousands of residents. From New Haven, Melinda Tuhus reports.
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Little Progress for Palestinians
Today, the Israeli Justice minister and Shinui party chairman
announced the first ever visit to the Israeli Knesset by a
Palestinian Leader-- Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
and Security Minister Mohammed Dahlan will make a private
visit to the Knesset early next week as guests of the Shinui
party. This on the heels of the first formal meeting between
Palestinian Security Minister Dahlan and Israeli defense minister
Shaul Mofaz in Jerusalem Sunday during which two ministers
discussed the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
detention. According to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz,
Dahlan asked to speak to the Israeli committee overseeing
Palestinian detentions. However, as seeming “progress”
is made by the Israeli and Palestinian leadership in the US
backed “roadmap” in Jerusalem, Mohammed Ghalyini
reports from Rafah, Gaza, that Palestinians experience little
progress on the ground.
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Obstacles for Iraqi Journalists
Two attacks over the weekend, one on a British journalist
who is reported to have been shot point-blank and a grenade
attack on a UN compound in Baghdad has heightened tension
in Iraq. Since the war ended there have been frequent attacks
on US and UK soldiers, but it is too early to say that foreign
civilians are now being targeted. Meanwhile, Iraqi journalists
are facing many difficulties that hinder their work. One major
obstacle is the American administration’s decision to
block any writings that may endanger the lives of American
soldiers. Ahmed al-Rawi reports from Baghdad.
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