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Today's lead stories:
Congress to Vote on $87 Billion
Texas Redistricting: Republican Congress for Next Decade?
Grocery Workers to Strike Across the Country
African Bishops Apologize for Slavery
Sacagawea Unity Fest
FSRN Headlines by Randi Zimmerman
Protests and Resignations in Bolivia
Four Bolivian cabinet ministers resigned today as the vice
president accused the leadership for using excessive force
against demonstrators. Bolivians have been filling the streets
for weeks in the nation’s capitol protesting government
plans to sell natural gas to the United States and Mexico.
Demonstrators have been saying that the gas be used for internal
use before it is sold on the open market. Dozens of people
have been killed in the protests that started on September
19th. President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada says he will postpone
plans to build a pipeline until next year but refuses to resign.
Bombings at Baghdad Turkish Embassy
A bomb exploded at the Turkish embassy today in Baghdad killing
one person in addition to the bomber, and injuring at least
8 others. Ezgi Sirtas reports on the reaction from Ankara.
New UN Resolution on Iraq
The United Nations Security Council is likely to pass a new
resolution on Iraq issued by the United States government
over strong objections from the Secretary General. Haider
Risvi reports from the U.N.
US Mission Returns from Mexico
U.S. House members concluded their visit to the U.S. Mexico
border renewing calls in Mexico for a serious investigation
into the serial killings of young women. Kent Patterson has
more from Ciudad Juarez.
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Congress to Vote on $87 Billion
Republican Congressional leaders want to pass President
Bush's 87 billion dollar request for Iraq this week. Along
with the White House, they want to have a spending plan in
place for Iraq before the international donor conference begins
in Madrid. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is threatening
to vote against the 87 billion dollars. In a San Francisco
Chronicle editorial, Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland
wrote that not only is the amount of the money daunting, but
it also represents the second installment for the Iraqi invasion
that may never end. Many Democrats are likely to pass the
87 billion dollar request, but they are trying to add amendments
ensuring Iraq pays back the 20 billion dollars being allocated
for reconstruction. Mitch Jeserich reports from Washington
DC.
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Texas Redistricting: Republican Congress for Next
Decade?
This week in Texas, the Republican controlled state House
and Senate approved a Congressional redistricting map that
could secure Republican control of the US House for the rest
of the decade. Analysts say the move may trigger a political
catfight across the country if democrats in other states retaliate
with efforts to boost democrat numbers in their own congressional
delegations. From Pacifica station KPFT in Houston, Renee
Feltz reports
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Grocery Workers to Strike Across the Country
Some 70,000 supermarket workers from three major grocery
chains continue to strike in Southern California today with
no resolution in sight. The United Food and Commercial Workers
union overwhelmingly voted to strike last week in reaction
to a proposed contract that cuts health and pension plans.
Teresa Wierzbianska files this report from Los Angeles.
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African Bishops Apologize for Slavery
The 13th symposium of Africa and Madagascar’s Episcopal
conferences held last week in Senegal’s capital Dakar
saw an apology expressed by African bishops for African responsibility
in 3 hundred years of slavery. The bishops gathered in Goree
island in pilgrimage as they discussed the many issues African
countries face, yet perhaps the most significant outcome of
the conference was the Bishops apology for slavery . From
Senegal, Ndiaga Seck reports.
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Sacagawea Unity Fest
As the nation yesterday celebrated Columbus Day, Native
American communities held many events highlighting their continuing
struggles, while other communities attempted to strengthen
connections with non-native peoples. For years, border town
communities located next to Native American reservations across
the country have frequently been the center of controversy.
Everything from blatant racial discrimination to ignoring
the very existence of Native Americans inspired the Sacagawea
Unity Fest, held in Mobridge, South Dakota over the weekend.
And as Jim Kent reports, the Sacagawea Unity Fest provided
insight into Native American history, oral traditions, art
and music, as well as offering Mobridge-area residents the
chance to plan their own community kitchen – a joint
food-industry business.
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