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Today's lead stories:
After Suicide Bombing, Will Israel Assassinate Arafat?
WTO Failed, US Moves on CAFTA
Immigrants: Let Freedom Ring!
Clear Channel Dominates NAB Meetings
Workers Sue IBM
FSRN Headlines by Nell Ambram
Arafat appoints emergency cabinet -- Mohammed Ghalayni
UN emergency meeting on Israeli assault on Syria -- Haider
Risvy
Former pharmaceutical CEO to head HIV/AIDS division -- Mitch
Jesserich
United Auto Workers -- John Hamilton
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After Suicide Bombing, Will Israel Assassinate Arafat?
After a deadly suicide bombing on Saturday at a busy café
left 19 people dead in Haifa, Israel stepped up its attacks
in the Gaza Strip and also launched an air strike on a training
camp in Syria which the IDF says was used by Islamic Jihad
and Hamas. Both Syria and the Palestinian organizations have
denied the Israeli charges. Meanwhile, on this Jewish high
holiday of Yom Kippur, and in the aftermath of the tragic
suicide bombing in Haifa, foreign and Israeli peace activists
have formed a 24 hour protective shield around Palestinian
president Yasser Arafat in the hope of stopping an Israeli
assassination attempt, as Israeli activist Uri Avnery, from
the pacifist movement Gush Shalom explains to Deepa Fernandes.
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WTO Failed, US Moves on CAFTA
U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Robert Zoellich, applied typical
carrot and stick diplomacy in Central America last week. In
San Jose, Costa Rica, Zoellich’s gave the Costa Rican
government an ultimatum; privatize the national telecommunications
company or be left out of CAFTA, the Central America Free
Trade Agreement with the United States. Meanwhile, in El Salvador,
Zoellich slapped the hands of Guatemala and Costa Rica for
joining the Group of 22 developing countries, lead by Brazil,
who demanded the U.S. totally eliminate agricultural subsidies
in the World Trade Organization conference in Cancun last
month. In a communication distributed by the U.S. embassy
in Costa Rica, Zoellich, once member of Enron’s Advisory
Council, declared, that given what occurred in Cancun, the
establishment of free trade, bilaterally, through CAFTA, is
more important than ever. Nan Mccurdy has more from Managua:
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Immigrants: Let Freedom Ring!
Over the weekend, about 100,000 immigrants, labor activists
and immigrants rights advocates gathered at Flushing Meadows
Park in New York City as the two-week long Immigrant Workers
Freedom ride ended. Organizers called it the beginning of
a new civil rights movement in this country. 18 buses with
900 plus riders, many of them undocumented, made their way
from cities across the country to demand an end to exclusion
for the millions of immigrants working and paying taxes in
the US. Speakers from Capitol Hill and from labor unions around
the country called for the Bush Administration to acknowledge
and change what Freedom Ride Organizers characterize as “out
of touch and outdated immigration policies.” From Queens,
New York, Jackson Allers files this report.
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Clear Channel Dominates NAB Meetings
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) wrapped up
its annual meetings at the Pennsylvania Convention Center
in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. The NAB is the strongest
lobby group for the radio industry and the conference was
attended by hundreds of corporate broadcasters paying an average
$500 a ticket to attend. The theme, “Come together,
Revolutionize radio“, centered on business strategies
and the recent FCC decision to weaken media consolidation.
One of the major corporate players, Clear Channel, which has
acquired some 1200 radio stations nationwide over the past
years, was a big presence at the meetings, and as Dante Toza
reports from Pennsylvania Convention Center, Clear Channel
has set its sights on buying more radio stations.
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Workers Sue IBM
A Judge in California’s Santa Clara County ruled last
week that two former IBM workers can proceed with a lawsuit
alleging they got cancer from chemical poisoning that IBM
knew was happening at one of the computer giant’s San
Jose manufacturing plants. But County Superior court judge
Robert Baines also threw out similar claims brought by two
other plaintiffs in the case, citing insufficient evidence
that they suffered systemic poisoning. As case heads to court,
Max Pringle has this report.
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