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Today's lead stories:
Texas Senator’s Hole up in New Mexico
Montreal WTO Meetings Wrap-Up
Mistrial in LA Police Beating Case
Nigeria Poised to Enter Liberia
Digital Voting Machine Flaws
FSRN Headlines - Produced by Randi Zimmerman
President Bush Holds Press Conference
What About Afghanistan?
Hindu Nationalists Shut Down Indian Capital- Miranda Kennedy.
IL Death Penalty Reform- Rita Sand.
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Texas Senator’s Hole up in New Mexico (2:15)
Continuing the turmoil in the Texas state legislature over
the issue of Congressional redistricting, which last month
saw House Democrats take direct action to stop the process
by leaving the state and holing up in a Okalahoma motel, yesterday
11 Texas state senators continued the protest by journeying
to New Mexico where today they remain in self-imposed exile.
From Albuquerque, Joe Gardner Wessely has more.
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Montreal WTO Meetings Wrap-Up (4:08)
A mini-Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization
is wrapping up today in Montreal after three days of negotiations
at a downtown Montreal hotel, which were met with a series
of large street demonstrations organized to oppose the meetings
by the Popular Mobilization Against the WTO. There have been
5 days of protests to oppose the two meetings in Montreal
and on Sunday, the eve of the WTO mini-ministerial, some 2000
people took to the streets under the banner of No One is Illegal.
This as Montreal’s mini-ministerial which was organized
in the lead up to Septembers WTO Ministerial meetings to be
held in Cancun Mexico, focused on building consensus on key
issues to the WTO such as migration and agriculture, central
to insuring that September’s meetings do not collapse
as did the WTO Ministerial in Seattle in 1999. Stefan Christoff
reports from Montreal.
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Mistrial in LA Police Beating Case (4:18)
An LA judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the Donovan
Jackson beating case. On their fourth day of deliberation
jurors said there was no way they could reach a verdict on
the officer charged with assault after he punched and slammed
a handcuffed African American teenager onto the hood of a
squad car. As Jordan Davis from KPFK in LA reports, community
leaders blasted the verdict by asking for peaceful protest.
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Nigeria Poised to Enter Liberia (4:02)
The Nigerian Senate yesterday gave the ok to President Olusegun
Obasanjo to send some 2,000 soldiers to a peace-keeping mission
in war-torn Liberia. This as the Senate also endorsed the
political asylum granted to Liberian President Charles Taylor
by Obasanjo. Meanwhile, fierce fighting between Taylor’s
government forces and rebels continues in Liberia. The crisis
in the West African country has gone on for almost fifteen
years with all manner of human rights abuses committed by
desperate warlords, who want to control the country's resources.
Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
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Digital Voting Machine Flaws (4:42)
Activists and computer experts around the U.S. have become
increasingly concerned that the electronic voting machines
being phased in may have basic flaws in their design, allowing
errors and potentially large-scale fraud. FSRN broadcast a
special on the whole issue of voting processes on July 4th
called Hacking Democracy, that can be heard by visiting our
website, www.fsrn.org. Last week, the voting machine story
sparked global interest with the publication of an independent
scientific review of the voting software of one company. One
of the scientists calls the software "amazingly and astonishingly
wrong." Pokey Anderson brings us the latest.
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