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Today's lead stories:
Lawmakers on Pre-Emptive Attacks
Israeli’s Remember Yitzhak Rabin
Non-Partisan Elections on NYC Ballot
Black Solidarity Day
Exposed: Part 6: Seattle
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Jackson
Allers
Amid tight security, 4,000 people filled the University
of New Hampshire’s ice hockey rink yesterday for the
consecration ceremony of New Hampshire bishop, Gene Robinson,
the first openly gay man to be given such distinction within
the Anglican Church.
Inuit hunters from Northern Greenland are demanding that
the Danish Supreme Court close down a US military base. Mette
Hedegaard has more from Copenhagen.
Four Former Rwandan Officials went on trial today before
a United Nations Court investigating responsibility for the
1994 Genocide. Susan Wood reports from the United Nations.
South Africa’s Landless People’s Movement or
LPM has called on the Government to place a moratorium on
what it calls a forced removal of residents from Guateng Province,
the most densely populated province in South Africa. Na’eem
Jenah reports from Johannesburg.
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Lawmakers on Pre-Emptive Attacks (4:06)
Today Congress approves President Bush's 87 billion dollar
request for Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 2/3rds of the money
will go to keeping U.S. troops in Iraq, while only 1.2 billion
dollars is for reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. The
Senate will pass the spending plan with unanimous consent,
meaning no Senator has to individually vote up or down on
the measure. Meanwhile, the Republican Chair of the Senate
Finance Committee has indicated the White House will submit
requested documents concerning pre-invasion information on
Iraq, even though it missed last Friday's deadline. With the
lawmakers from both sides of the aisle calling the intelligence
of prewar Iraq faulty, FSRN reporter Mitch Jeserich asked
lawmakers whether they still support pre-emptive attack that
is based on intelligence reports.
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Israeli’s Remember Yitzhak Rabin (3:02)
More than 100,000 Israelis attended a memorial for former
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin - killed eight years
by a right wing Jewish extremist. This is the largest turnout
since the commemorations began, and all the speakers called
on Israel to return to negotiating for peace. Irris Makler
reports from Jerusalem.
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Non-Partisan Elections on NYC Ballot (3:59)
Tomorrow is election day nationwide. Voters in Cleveland
Heights, Ohio, could be the first in the nation to approve
by ballot issue a domestic partner registry recognizing unmarried
gay and straight couples. In Portland Oregon, voters will
decide on whether to create a Public Utility District which
supporters say will allow the public to take control of their
own energy, taking it away from Enron. Meanwhile, in New York
City voters will take to the polls with City Council seats,
judgeships and revisions to state and city charters on the
ballot. Among several proposals to change state and city charters,
non-partisan elections is getting the most attention. Simba
Russeau files this report from New York.
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Black Solidarity Day (4:05)
Today is Black Solidarity Day. The brainchild of former
Brooklyn College professor Dr. Carlos Russell, Black Solidarity
Day is observed on the Monday before Election Day to remind
the nation, and especially African Americans of their collective
strength and political power. Celebrated since 1969, it is
a day when African Americans are called upon not to engage
in travel or shopping and to stay away from work and school.
This year in New York, African Americans are using the day
to highlight what they say is the need to turn off media which
is offensive to their community. Ian Forrest in NY files this
report Global Power.
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Exposed: Part 6: Seattle (4:20)
In 1942, during World War II war hysteria, President Roosevelt
signed Executive Order 9066 giving military authorities power
to designate any civilian a "threat to security"
- similar to sections of the Patriot Act and Executive Orders
today. 120,000 Japanese-Americans were stripped of their civil
liberties and imprisoned for nearly 3 years. A new theater
work staged by the drama department of a community college
in Seattle, takes an unblinking look back at this ugly stage
in US history. "Yellow Fever: The Internment", explores
the legacy of internment through the lens of history and the
experience of cast members concerned about attacks against
civilians - especially people of color - in the current so-called
"war on terror". Yellow Fever is one of 5 dramatic
works to begin a national tour later next month and Martha
Baskin brings us the next installment of our special series
looking at the global attack on civil liberties and the growing
movement to resist it.
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