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Today's lead stories:
Plan Colombia's Violence Against Women
FTAA Arrests and Law Suits
Lakota Peoples Meet to Uphold Treaties
Guatemalans Face Violence In Advance of Presidential Run-off
Kashmiri Separatists in Peace Talks with India
FSRN Headlines by Randi Zimmerman
The United States Senate passed the Medicare bill critics
claim leads to the privatization of medical provisions for
the nation’s senior citizens. President Bush promises
to sign the bill into law that carries a much sought after
measure to cover prescription drugs. Many agree if not seniors,
the bill will surely help drug manufacturers and insurance
companies who helped create and heavily lobbied for the bill.
The U.S. Congress struck a deal with White House officials
that would allow media conglomerates to increase the amount
of television stations they may own. Mitch Jeserich has more
from Capitol Hill. Today Southern California grocery workers
extend their pickets to northern California supermarkets.
Monica Lopez reports from KPFK.
A Canadian citizen who was released from the US Naval prison
at Guantanamo Bay in late October says Canada is denying him
reentry home. Reporting from CKLN in Toronto, Kristen Schwartz.
The City Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts voted unanimously
to become the first municipal government in the state to endorse
marriage rights for same sex couples. Dave Goodman reports
from Boston.
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Plan Colombia's Violence Against Women
To commemorate international day opposing violence against
women, A caravan of nearly 3000 women culminated today in
the most southern state of Putomaya. A region that since 2000
has been the focal point of air fumigation under the US financed
plan Columbia. The past years of fumigations intended to irradiate
coca crops, the base used to make cocaine. And has caused
the Hunger, displacement, health problems, loss of land and
severe miliartazion. Both the US and the Columbian government
have refused to recognize human and environmental detriment
that their anti-narcotic program continues to cause. And that
is why 1000's of Columbian women have risked traveling heavy
conflict areas to join together to protest these fumigations.
Nicole Carson has more.
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FTAA Arrests and Law Suits
Last week 1,000s of peaceful protesters from 50 states and
several counties gathered in Miami, FL to voice their opposition
to the corporate globalization model espoused by proponents
of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. But they were meant
by 1000s of heavily armed police from 40 counties and several
federal agencies, carrying rubber bullets, pepper spray and
much more. As one officer told FSRN, "the protesters
came to speak and the police came to drown you out."
WORT's Norm Stockwell was there and files this report.
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Lakota Peoples Meet to Uphold Treaties
More than 300 members of the Great Sioux Nation converged
on Rapid City, South Dakota last weekend for a two-day conference
aimed at establishing a united front in fighting for their
treaty rights. Called “Awakening the Sovereign Spirit
of a Great Lakota Nation”, the gathering brought together
elders who’ve been pursuing treaty rights for decades,
with a new generation of warriors who plan to take their battle
to the halls of Congress. FSRN correspondent Jim Kent attended
the gathering which one Lakota elder dubbed “the do
or die” of treaty conferences, and filed this report.
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Guatemalans Face Violence In Advance of Presidential
Run-off
Guatemalans voted in droves two weeks ago in the country’s
second presidential election since 1996 peace accords ended
a 36-year civil war. The losing candidates included the governing
party’s Efraín Ríos Montt [eh-frah-EEN
REE-ohs MOHNT], a retired general who ruled Guatemala as dictator
for 18 months in the early 1980s. But, as Chip Mitchell reports
from Guatemala City, it’s far from clear either candidate
in a December 28 runoff would take steps to reduce Guatemala’s
crushing poverty.
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Kashmiri Separatists in Peace Talks with India
The Kashmiri Separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat
Conference or APHC, has agreed to unconditional talks with
the Indian government. The APHC made the announcement last
Friday in Srinagar one month after India said Deputy Prime
Minister L K Advani will address the Hurriyat conference.
The Hurriyat conferences also said it is working on a roadmap
which it will offer to India and Pakistan for the resolution
of the longstanding dispute. Shahnawaz Khan reports from Srinagar
Kashmir.
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