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Today's lead stories:
30 Hour Congress Debate Set to Begin
Vigil Held for Veteran’s Day
Indonesian Maids are Victims of Rape
Bolivian’s Call for Justice After Protests
Global Power Exposed: Part 13: Hate Crimes in Florida
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Nell
Abram
Iraq Update – Ahmed al Rawi
A suicide car bombing today in Nasiriyah killed at least 17
Italians and eight Iraqis. An Italian police station was bombed
in the city that was considered the most peaceful following
the invasion. In Baghdad, businessmen with close ties to a
leading — and controversial — member of Iraq's
Governing Council have won large contracts for the country's
reconstruction – Ahmed al Rawi reports that some council
members and other Iraqis are charging that the actions are
fueling a cronyism that threatens to sabotage the nation-building
effort.
New Mexico Academy wants to train Iraqi police – Joe
Gardner Wessely
A federal academy in New Mexico wants to expand its operations
to help train Iraqi police officers. Joe Gardner Wessely has
more.
Middle East update – Jackson Allers
Yasir Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet today, ending
a period of political turmoil that had paralyzed his government
and clearing the way for Israelis and Palestinians to rejuvenate
efforts on a Middle East peace plan. Palestinian Prime Minister
Ahmed Qurie for presidential and parliamentary elections by
June in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In a press conference
at the United Nations today, Jean Zeigler, UN Special Rapporteur
with the Right to Food program – condemned Israel for
“denying the right to food and water to 3.8 million
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.” Jackson Allers
reports from NY.
California wildfires to worsen due to global warming effects
– Kellia Ramares
The recent Southern California Wildfires were bad, but researchers
say nature has even worse in store for the Golden State, thanks
to Global Warming. Kellia Ramares has more from Berkeley.
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30 Hour Congress Debate Set to Begin (3:42)
The United States Senate is about to begin 30 consecutive
hours of debates over judicial nominations and many other
contentious subjects on Capitol Hill. In what is considered
to be a reverse filabuster, the Senate Republican Leadership
will make the Democrats stall a vote starting tonight and
ending Friday morning. At issue are three of President Bush's
judicial nominations to district courts that Democrats have
vowed to filabuster. Republicans hope the 30-hour straight
session will garner enough media attention to portray the
Democrats as obstructionists. However the Democrats have sided
with civil rights groups that say several of Bush's nominations
would work to repeal of hard fought victories by women and
people of color. Mitch Jeserich has more from Capitol Hill.
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Vigil Held for Veteran’s Day (3:50)
Since its inception as Armistice Day in 1918, Americans
have honored the sacrifice and service of US GIs on November
11th, and yesterday the nation marked Veteran‘s Day
with a variety of activities. Some Veterans Day holidays have
passed during peacetime, but the war on Iraq has caused hundreds
of US soldiers to arrive home dead and wounded. This year,
a national veterans' group, Veterans for Peace, decided to
honor the soldiers by holding a vigil outside the number one
location of injured GIs returning from Iraq, Walter Reed Hospital
in Washington DC. FSRN correspondent, Sarah Turner, reports.
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Indonesian Maids are Victims of Rape (3:44)
Recently advocates of Indonesian migrant workers took their
case to their country's Parliament angry at that thousands
of Indonesian maids who travel to Saudi Arabia and other Muslim
countries who come home victims of rape every year. From Jakarta,
Aaron Glantz has the story.
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Bolivian’s Call for Justice After Protests
(4:01)
Less than three weeks ago, Bolivia’s unpopular president
resigned amid a nationwide indigenous-led rebellion, but not
before soldiers and police had opened fire on crowds of unarmed
protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. The
United States government, which backed ousted President Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada until the end, has still not condemned the
killings. Reed Lindsay has reaction from El Alto, an urban
slum of La Paz that was the focal point of the protests and
the site of the most intense government repression.
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Global Power Exposed: Part 13: Hate Crimes in Florida
(4:16)
Since September 11, 2001 hate crimes against Muslims, or
people perceived as Muslim have risen sharply. In Florida
during the year 2002, there was a jump of 95% in the reported
hate crimes against Muslims according to the Council on American-Islamic
Relations. CAIR says today, out of all 50 states, Florida
ranks number 2 in reported cases of discrimination against
Muslims. Already this year, the numbers of reported cases
has exceeded last year's. As we continue our special series
looking at the global assault on civil liberties, from WMNF,
Randi Zimmerman reports on one hate crime involving school
children in Jacksonville.
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