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Today's lead stories:
9-11 Memorials in DC
9-11 Remembered in NYC
Compensation Issues from 9-11 in NYC
Chile’s Sept 11 Remembered
FSRN Exclusive: WTO Kills Farmers
9-11 Memorials in DC
Today is the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks
in which two hijacked planes brought down the World Trade
Center Towers in New York City, another plane crashed into
the Pentagon, while still another plane crashed in a Pennsylvanian
field. Over three thousand people died on that day. Since
that time the United States has retaliated by invading two
countries that denied any connection to the 9/11 events, resulting
in thousands of more deaths. At home the U.S. Congress passed
the Patriot Act giving the government unprecedented authority
to investigate its citizens. Also, over a thousand immigrants
have been detained, without a right to legal counsel. President
George Bush is using the 2nd anniversary of 9/11 to garner
support for the broadening of the Patriot Act. Bush yesterday
said the first Act did not go far enough and that he favored
further expansions by allowing federal authorities to issue
subpoenas without going to a grand jury, hold suspects without
bail, and to seek the death penalty in more cases. Meanwhile,
peace groups throughout the country are observing the second
anniversary of 9/11 not by focusing on hate and fear but using
the anniversary to be mindful of creating a better world.
Mitch Jeserich reports on some of those events happening right
in the middle of the Nation’s Capitol.
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9-11 Remembered in NYC
Also in NY, commemorations at the so-called “Ground
Zero” site began early this morning. Jackson Allers
brings us this collage of voices remembering September 11,
2001.
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Compensation Issues from 9-11 in NYC
Meanwhile in New York City the day was commemorated with
both memorials and protests. Two years after the attacks residents
of lower Manhattan continue to battle health concerns and
to fight efforts to displace them. The Lower Manhattan Development
Corporation, LMDC, is a joint state-city agency responsible
for distributing more than $2 billion of federal funds to
businesses and individuals in lower Manhattan which were affected
by the September 11th attacks. Yet as Gail Walker reports,
many people have been left out of the compensation. Reading
for Gail Walker is Simba Russeau.
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Chile’s Sept 11 Remembered
Today is also the 30th anniversary of the other September
11 – when democratically elected Chilean Socialist president
Salvador Allende was toppled in a US backed coup led by Augusto
Pinochet. The death of the coveted leader was the start of
years of torture and the disappearance of thousands of Chileans.
Although some 90 military personnel are being prosecuted in
Chile for Human rights abuses during the Pinochet regime,
victims say the government is doing little to address human
rights issues and are still seeking reparations. Victims are
enraged that a human rights proposal put forth by Chilean
President Lagos last month grants immunity from prosecution
to those providing information about the Pinochet era human
rights abuses. In this report by Pauline Bartolone , Chilean
exiles in Berkeley California reflect on the coup 30 years
ago and why justice still has not been served in their country.
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FSRN Exclusive: WTO Kills Farmers
Agriculture issue continue to dominate the World Trade Organization
meetings, both inside and outside the gathering of top negotiators
from 146 countries. Inside a group of four of the poorest
African countries - Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad & Mali -
have asked the US to end its $3.2 billion subsidies to its
25,000 cotton farmers which they say have destroyed the livelihoods
of 10 million African farmers. Key European countries including
Germany and Britain are supporting them in their battle just
as 21 developing countries are demanding that both the US
and the EU cancel all agricultural subsidies. Outside the
officials talk, thousands are attending alternative agriculture
fairs, symposiums and protests. These protests have been dominated
by the dramatic suicide of a South Korean farmer who stabbed
himself on top of a police barricade. FSRN producer Kata Mester
was one of the last journalists to speak with the rice farmer
before he died and files this report from Cancun.
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