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Today's lead stories:
Lawmakers Talking about Syria and Iran
Paramilitary violence in Mexico under Investigation
Wal-Mart Displacing Asian stores in Denver
Breast Cancer Awareness Month Draws to a Close
Global Power Exposed: Part 3: Uganda
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Nell
Abram
UK GOV'T SUED OVER IRAQI CASUALTIES -- Anastasia Kershaw
An Iraqi man living in Britain is planning to sue the government
after three generations of his family were killed in Basra
by British troops in the war. Anastasia Kershaw is in London.
US-LED INVASION CASUALTY ESTIMATES -- Dave Goodman
Iraqi casualties during the first month of the U.S. - British
invasion of that country earlier this year, included a significant
proportion of non-combatants. That was the conclusion reached
by a Cambridge, Massachusetts based non-profit research organization
in a recently released study of the war. Correspondent David
Goodman has details.
U.S. VISIT -- Geoff Brady
The Department of Homeland Security revealed it’s immigration
scanning program this week called US Visit. From New York
City, Geoff Brady has more.
WHITEHOUSE.GOV -- Josh Chaffin
Web surfers are complaining the White House is changing its
own historical record at the WhiteHouse.gov website. Josh
Chaffin reports.
WEALTH GAP -- Amanda Johnson
A report released today says that African Americans are beginning
to close the wealth gap. Amanda Johnson reports from DC.
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Lawmakers Talking about Syria and Iran (4:03)
A new study suggests that as many as 15,000 Iraqis were
killed in the first month of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The
figures in the study, done by the Project of Defense Alternatives,
include Iraqi troops, Ba'ath Party members, and persons unarmed.
Other studies suggest that since the invasion began some 10,000
Iraqis have been killed. Meanwhile, two American soldiers
were killed today in Iraq when their tank hit explosives just
north of Baghdad. This follows a week of multiple bombings
that have killed dozens of people. Yesterday, in a rare news
conference at the White House, President Bush said the U.S.
will stay the course in Iraq and that the world is safer now
that Saddam Hussein and the Taliban have been deposed. Meanwhile
lawmakers on Capitol Hill are talking about how the U.S. should
now deal with Iran and Syria. Mitch Jeserich has more from
Washington D.C.
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Paramilitary violence in Mexico under investigation
(3:58)
A delegation of more than a dozen national and international
human rights and social justice organizations traveled to
different regions in Oaxaca to retrieve testimonies after
a violent paramilitary attack took place in Santa Maria Yaviche,
a Zapoteco indigenous community, leaving one dead and 9 wounded.
The incident was one of many acts of intimidation and harassment
say indigenous organizations that have been fighting to maintain
their rights and culture in the face of mega-development projects
that are dividing up the Tehuantepec Isthmus, the narrowest
stretch of land from the Pacific port of Salina Cruz in Oaxaca,
to the Gulf of Mexico in Veracruz. Luz Ruiz and Tim Russo
report.
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Wal-Mart Displacing Asian stores in Denver
(3:56)
Wal-Mart continues to make headlines this week. After announcing
on Monday that they will review the immigration status of
their million plus employees and fire any who are undocumented,
in Denver, a dozen Asian-American store owners are angry that
the retail giant is putting them out of business. The small
Denver stores face relocation if Wal-Mart decides to develop
the Market Square, where for years these shop owners have
leased space. In 1991, the city of Denver declared the strip
mall a blight and drew up an urban renewal plan which grabbed
the attention of Wal-Mart. And although the city of Denver
is offering modest financial assistance to help cover moving
costs of the local businesses to be evicted, many tenants
say their businesses are doomed. KGNU’S Patrick Naylis
has more from Denver.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Draws to a Close
(4:19)
October in breast cancer awareness month. Statistics say
one in 8 women in the US will develop breast cancer, while
in 1975 the risk was only 1 in 11. National organizations
held walks, races and motorcycle rallies to raise awareness
and money for educational programs and research. Community
activists held music festivals, like the Lilish fair in Orlando
to raise money earmarked for mammograms for poor women. From
WMNF in Tampa Randi Zimmerman has more.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 3: Uganda (3:20)
This week the 10th Intergovernmental Authority on Development
(IGAD) summit has been meeting in Kampala, Uganda. The summit,
which is being attended by leaders from the seven IGAD member
states of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the
Sudan and Uganda, discussed the IGAD sponsored peace process
for the Sudan and Somalia, but the main focus of the summit
was the expanding ‘war on terrorism‘. Two members
of IGAD are on the Bush Administration’s list of countries
that sponsor international terrorism, while other members
like Kenya and Uganda say they have been victims of terrorism.
As we continue our 15 part special series looking at the International
War On Terror and how it is effecting global civil liberties,
our correspondent in Uganda, Joshua Kyalimpa, brings us Part
3 from the IGAD summit in Kampala.
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