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Today's lead stories:
Wave of Attacks Kill Dozens in Baghdad
Worldwide Rallies Protest Occupation of Iraq
CAFTA Meeting End in Secrecy
Leftist wins election to Mayor Bogotá
Global Power Exposed: Part 1: Resisting the Patriot Act
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Nell
Abram
BAGHDAD BOMBINGS - Ahmed al-Rawi
A series of bombings in Baghdad today killed 34 people and
injured many others. Ahmed Al-rawi was at the International
Red Cross when one of the explosions happened.
WALMART - John Hamilton
A crackdown on undocumented immigrant workers by federal officials
at Wal-Mart stores last week may have been just the beginning.
John Hamilton has more.
EPA CHIEF - Mitch Jesserich
Today in the U.S. Senate, Republicans will try to bust a Democratic
hold on the nomination of Governor of Utah Mike Leavitt as
head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Mitch Jeserich
reports from Capitol Hill.
ILLINIOS PRESCRIPTION REPORT - Rita Sand
The Gov of Illinois released a report this afternoon that
confirms his claim that importing prescription drugs from
Canada would be safe and would save the state of Illinios
tens of millions of dollar; Rita Sand of Chicago Indymedia
reports
MIDDLE EAST - Tim Covi
In what is perceived as another breach of the road map peace
plan - Israel granted full settlement status to 5 illegal
outposts today. Tim Covi is in Nablus.
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Wave of Attacks Kill Dozens in Baghdad (4:21)
As we reported in the headlines, 34 people were killed today
in a wave of bombings in Baghdad, including one at the headquarters
of the International Red Cross. The agency now says it may
follow other groups in scaling back aid to the Iraqi people
because of the danger. Free Speech Radio News correspondent
Ahmed al-Rawi was in Baghdad directly next door to the ICRC
when the bomb was detonated. He spoke with Headlines Editor,
Nell Abram.
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Worldwide Rallies Protest Occupation of Iraq (3:18)
As the military occupation in Iraq goes on without end,
this past Saturday, tens of thousands converged on the Washington
Monument for a rally calling for the end of the occupation
of Iraq and for the Bush Administration to bring the troops
home. The rally was organized by International ANSWER and
United for Peace and Justice and coincided with marches in
two dozen cities across the United States and in many cities
around the world. Selina Musuta reports from Washington, DC.
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CAFTA Meeting End in Secrecy (3:48)
After a week of closed-door negotiations, the eighth round
of Central American Free Trade Agreement closed in Houston.
The lead negotiators, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras
and El Salvador claim that the trade agreement will help to
stabilize the region both economically and politically. However,
citizen groups are quick to point out that the secretive nature
of the talks themselves are antithetical to the very democracy
that CAFTA will supposedly strengthen. From Houston, Shannon
Young has more.
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Leftist wins election to Mayor Bogotá (4:29)
This weekend Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez suffered
a double defeat at the polls as Colombians voted on a series
of political reforms and for new state and city officials.
In Bogotá, a former communist union leader, Luis Eduardo
Garzon was elected mayor, marking the first time the leftist
opposition has won an important political post in Colombia.
From Bogotá, Nicole Karsin has more.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 1: Resisting the Patriot
Act (3:33)
This weekend the USA Patriot Act turned 2 years old. Since
September 11 the Bush Administration began what they termed
the “war against terrorism” under which the Patriot
Act was drawn up and rubberstamped by Congress. The provisions
of the Act authorized the Department of Justice to expand
secret surveillance powers. Some civil rights activists have
called the Patriot Act the most systematic attack on basic
civil liberties since the McCarthy red scare. And for people
around the world, September 11th also marked the turning point
in how politics, economics, law and civil liberties would
be redefined as world leaders quickly fell in to step with
the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’.
So on this the 2nd anniversary of the Patriot Act, FSRN begins
a special series called “Global Power Exposed”
which will span the next six months. We kick off our coverage
with a 15 part series focusing on the worldwide attack on
civil liberties. In Part one, correspondent Dave Lippman reports
about a movement to resist the Patriot Act from Syracuse,
New York.
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