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Today's lead stories:
India Withdraws Offer of Troops to Iraq
Wal-Mart to Face Massive Sex Discrimination Suit
Shell Targeted for Mass Pollution
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Begin
Have we Seen this Before?
FSRN Headlines by Randi Zimmerman
A coalition of workers and civil society groups in Bolivia
are calling for a national strike to begin Monday -- Josh
Chaffin
The head of Israel's air force, has issued an order against
nine pilots who refuse to fly missions that would most certainly
hurt civilians in the Occupied Territories.
The city of Chicago has moved closer to formally opposing
the so-called Patriot Act -- Tom Robb
Levi’s Jeans has fired 100’s of workers, moving
the operations out of the United States -- John Anderson
Big Blue faced a San Jose judge today over a 1998 case filed
by former employees who charge IBM exposed them to cancer
causing toxins -- Richard Leavitt
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India Withdraws Offer of Troops to Iraq
Congress today approved a compromise $368 billion defense
bill for next year, the Senate did not oppose the measure
approving it by 95-0, a day after the House passed the measure
407-15. This as Republicans and many Democrats say they have
no choice but to find a way to pay President Bush's $87 billion
bill for this year's work in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan.
The White House meantime is still pushing for more foreign
troops to go to Iraq after Indian PM Vajpayee yesterday told
President Bush that India had reversed its previous commitment
to send thousands of troops to Iraq to bolster the US efforts.
From New Delhi our correspondent Vinod K. Jose looks at why
after 5 months of indecision, India finally decided to not
send its specially trained 17, 000 troops from the insurgency
torn areas of Kashmir to Iraq.
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Wal-Mart to Face Massive Sex Discrimination Suit
Plaintiffs’ attorneys in a sex discrimination case
against Wal-Mart, have moved to expand the pool of plaintiffs
from the current six to a class that includes all women who
have worked at Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club from December
26, 1998 to the present. That would be approximately 1.6 million
women. If the class is certified, the world’s largest
private employer will be the defendant in the largest civil
rights case in U.S. history. Kéllia Ramares reports:
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Shell Targeted for Mass Pollution
In the face of significant rollbacks to the federal Clean
Air Act by the Bush Administration, clean air advocates have
identified a town they call “ground zero” in their
fight for tougher pollution laws. In Port Arthur Texas, where
oil refineries surround homes and schools, 600 residents have
filed a class action lawsuit against a power plant owned and
operate by Shell Oil. Residents living along the fence lines
of Shell facilities around the world traveled to Texas Wednesday
to show solidarity for one community’s struggle against
the world’s largest oil company. Reporter Erika McDonald
was in Port Arthur and files this report.
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Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Begin
Busloads of immigrant workers and their allies have departed
from ten US cities and are driving to the nation’s capitol.
Yesterday crowds in New Mexico welcomed two buses from the
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. And as Joe Gardner Wessely
reports, two of the buses were stopped outside of El Paso,
Texas today where border police asked for the ID of everyone
aboard, releasing the buses after all on board refused to
comply.
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Have we Seen this Before?
Continuing his Patriot Act PR nation-wide tour, Attorney
General John Ashcroft yesterday told a New Orleans audience
that the nation is safer than it was two years ago because
of the increased powers Congress has granted to police and
prosecutors, and the continued swelling of the nation's prison
population. Our commentator on death row, Mumia Abu Jamal
offers a very different prospective.
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