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Today's lead stories:
Prison Rates Rise for 2002
South Korea Marks Armistice
Adopt-a-Silo Day
Mountain Top Mining in West Virginia
Radio For Peace Locked Out
FSRN Headlines, Produced by Andrew Stelzer
Confidential Section of 911 report implicates Saudi support
of Terrorism--James Cullum
Armed Forces Rebel in Manila, Phillipines--FSRN speaks with
Renato Reyes Jr.
Liberians Demonstrate in front of the White House--Ingrid
Drake
CAFTA meetings in New Orleans--Shannon Young
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Prison Rates Rise for 2002 (4:34)
According to statistics released yesterday by the US Bureau
of Justice Statistics, America's prison population grew to
2.1 million in 2002, a 2.6 percent increase over 2001 and
the largest increase since 1999. This at a time when many
studies show that crime is actually declining. The figures
released yesterday show that people incarcerated for drug
offences now make over half the prison population while about
one of every 143 residents was in the federal, state or local
custody at the end of 2002. Deepa Fernandes reports.
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South Korea Marks Armistice (3:44)
As Cuba celebrated five decades since the Cuban revolutionary
forces' attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 which launched
the Cuban revolution, another 50- year commemoration this
weekend marked the signing of the armistice ending the Korean
war. US and South Korean military officials gathered with
dignitaries including President Roh Moo Hyoun and New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark to pay tribute to the five million
dead, injured or missing in the Korean War. Hundreds of Korean
and American war veterans were invited to Seoul by the South
Korean War Veterans Association. Ngoc Nguyen and Eun-ji Kang
report from Seoul
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Adopt-a-Silo Day (3:37)
Anti-nuclear activists spread out across the remote plains
of northeast Colorado over the weekend bringing songs, poems,
picnic baskets and a message of resistance to over forty nuclear
missile silos. The event was called Adopt-A- Silo Day. It
was organized in solidarity with three nuns who were sentenced
to federal prison Friday for civil disobedience at one of
the missile sites. From KGNU in Boulder, Sam Fuqua reports.
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Mountain Top Mining in West Virginia (4:04)
Coalfield residents in West Virginia and four surrounding
states reacted to this month's release of a government report
on the effects of Mountain Top Removal mining throughout the
Appalachians. The new Environmental Impact Study, like the
Bush administration's new policies on logging on federal lands,
recommends the easing of government restrictions and the streamlining
of the application process for new mine projects. Evan Davis
was in Charleston, West Virginia and spoke to community members
to file this report.
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Radio For Peace Locked Out (3:51)
A locked front gate at the Radio for Peace International
studios in Costa Rica has kept staff members from leaving
the station since an eviction notice was issued last Monday.
Supporters call the eviction notice - issued by United Nations
project, University for Peace - politically motivated at best,
and an act of censorship at worst. The lock on the station’s
gate is only the latest of months of hostile acts from the
new university administration, but Radio For Peace staff say
they refuse to stop broadcasting. From the studios of RFPI,
Pauline Bartolone has the story.
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