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Today's lead stories:
Recall Referendum in Venezuela?
LPFM Victory in SF
Daily Vigils for Murdered Transgender Woman
Part 3: Cyber Surveillance and Microsoft
Protests of Anniston Weapon Incinerator
FSRN Headlines Produced by Nell Abrahm
Annan Says UN Will Stay in Iraq; Blames US for Lack of Security
- Haider Risvi
Israel Closes West Bank Towns - Muhammed Ghalayini
US Attorney General on Tour - Robert Flaxman
Gulf War Vets Sue Banks - Jackson Allers
California Financial Privacy Law - Christopher Martinez
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Recall Referendum in Venezuela? (3:58)
Today marks the day in Venezuela when opposition groups
are constitutionally allowed to begin the campaign for a recall
referendum of President Hugo Chavez, yesterday marked the
half way point of Chavez’s term. However, the campaign
begins amidst a cloud of controversy over whether the petition
for the referendum is valid. Major demonstrations by the opposition
today, and by Chavez supporters on Saturday, show that the
political polarization in Venezuela continues. Greg Wilpert
has the story from Caracas, Venezuela.
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LPFM Victory in SF (4:03)
San Francisco media activists scored a victory yesterday
against the FCC and the forces of media consolidation. The
San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a unanimous resolution
in support of local pirate radio station “San Francisco
Liberation Radio,” or SFLR and called for an increase
in media diversity and a roll back of the FCC rule relaxation
decisions of June 2nd. Sarah Olsen reports from Berkeley that
this is the first decision of its kind nationwide to support
a local pirate radio station.
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Daily Vigils for Murdered Transgender Woman
(2:59)
As the nation's attention focuses on whether or not same
sex marriage should be put into law or made constitutionally
illegal, hate crimes continue to mount towards lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender people. In Washington, mourners
have been holding a vigil for Bella Evangelista, a transgender
woman who was murdered last Saturday. It was the third murder
of a transgender person in the past year and vigils have occurred
everyday this week. Selina Musuta reports from Washington,
DC.
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Part 3: Cyber Surveillance and Microsoft (4:12)
Microsoft today announced that its Office System 2003 was
ready and had been sent to manufacturers. Over the past few
months the computer giant has been battling the so-called
“Blaster Virus”, a tricky virus that has affected
business and consumer users alike. The release of Microsoft
Office 2003 comes as the BBC released a report yesterday detailing
how the program contains spying capabilities when sending
documents. China recently expelled the use of Microsoft as
it said the operating system has been used by the U.S. government
to monitor users as part of its call to national security.
Simba Russeau brings us this final report of our special three
part series on Cyber – surveillance and the freedom
of public access to information on the internet.
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Protests of Anniston Weapon Incinerator
(3:35)
A controversial weapons incinerator has now been running
almost two weeks in Anniston, Alabama. The army says its $1
billion incinerator is the safest way to destroy the stockpile
of Cold War-era nerve and blister agent, but hundreds of Southerners
who converged on Anniston this past weekend to protest, say
the incinerator is unsafe and emphasized the complicity between
the Army, its contractors, and Alabama's politicians. Some
sixty percent of the residents of Calhoun County remain opposed
to incineration and want a chance to consider alternatives.
Jack Hickey reports from Anniston.
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