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Today's lead stories:
Interview about Iraq Contracts
Chinese Premier Meets Falun Gong Protests
World Summit on Information Society opens in Geneva
Late Justice in Argentina?
A Woman's Place is in Her Union
First Son, Now Mother: NYPD Police Brutality continues
Free Speech Radio News Headlines by Jackson
Allers
U.S. Forces Kill Six Children in Afghanistan
Yesterday in the Paktia Province of Afghanistan, six children
were crushed to death after U.S. forces attacked a compound
where an Afghan commander was allegedly keeping a huge cache
of weapons. This follows a bundled operation on Sunday where
US forces killed 9 children in a neighboring province. Both
attacks occurred in Pashtun-dominated areas something critics
within Afghanistan say will not sit well with the country’s
largest ethnic group. A spokesperson for the US forces says
there is no guarantee more civilians will not be injured in
the latest U.S. maneuver in Afghanistan, Operation Avalanche
– involving about 2,000 troops across the south and
east of the country.
The UN Decides Not to Go Back to Iraq
And in a blow to the Bush Administration, the United Nations
says Iraq is too dangerous for it’s staff to return
any time soon. Susan Wood reports from the UN.
Iraq Contracts Won’t Go to Anti-War Countries
The Bush Administration is defending a Pentagon ruling barring
Iraq War Opponents from bidding on reconstruction contracts
– Craig Murphey reports from DC.
ExxonMobil Guilty of Polluting Nigeria’s Coast
A court in Lagos has asked Exxonmobil to pay one hundred million
dollars as compensation to some communities affected by an
oil spill that resulted from the company’s installation.
Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos, Nigeria.
In Texas, Two Death Row Prisoners Get Stay of Execution
Three Texas death row prisoners were scheduled to die this
week, but as Renee Feltz reports from KPFT, tonight's execution
may be the only one carried out.
Matt Gonzalez Loses San Francisco Mayoral Race
In the race for mayor of San Francisco, progressive candidate
Matt Gonzalez put up a strong showing, but with 47% of the
vote he lost to Gavin Newsom with 53%. Tori Taylor reports.
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Interview about Iraq Contracts
As we reported in the headlines, there is growing outrage
around the world at the US decision to bar anti-war countries
from reconstruction contracts in Iraq. Joining us now from
Baghdad is Pratap Chatterjee, he is the managing editor of
Corpwatch.
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Chinese Premier Meets Falun Gong Protests
(3:56)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to the United States
has been dominated by talk of economics and the military threat
from China to Taiwan if the island holds a referendum towards
independence. However there is less talk about the hundreds
of Falun Gong demonstrators shadowing Jiabao's every move
in New York and Washing DC demanding the arrest of the former
Chinese President Jiang Zemin for his role in the persecution
of millions of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Mitch Jeserich
has the story.
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World Summit on Information Society opens in Geneva
(4:06)
The first-ever World Summit on the Information Society starts
today in Geneva. Initial hopes that the summit would tackle
a broad range of information and communication issues have
been dashed and the agenda has focused mainly on government
and private sector related issues. Broader communication and
media issues have been largely sidelined. As Lindsay Benedict
and John Kim report, NGO’s and independent groups have
been shut out of the summit and will convene a parallel gathering
called the World Forum on Communication Rights.
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Late Justice in Argentina? (4:02)
In the last two months, more than 30 ex military men in
Argentina have been tried and detained for violating human
rights during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.
Under the Videla led regime between 1976 and 1983, 30,000
persons were labeled subversives, and systematically tortured,
killed and disappeared. The current Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner has modified the political climate regarding crimes
committed under the dictatorship, which led to the annulment
of two immunity laws which had previously protected the military.
Demonstrations this week in Buenos Aires mark 20 years since
the end of the military dictatorship, and the struggle to
remember those lost to state sponsored terrorism. On this
International Human Rights Day, Pauline Bartolone and Pablo
Boilo have this report from Buenos Aires.
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A Woman's Place is in Her Union (3:18)
As we mark International Human rights day, today, hundreds
of workers and their supporters rallied in New Haven, Connecticut,
as part of a nation-wide event sponsored by the AFL-CIO called
"A Woman's Place is in Her Union." In September,
after a three-week strike, 4,000 union workers at Yale University
won what they called ‘excellent contracts’. The
struggle pitted the university against the combined power
of the union movement, both locally and nationally, and a
community coalition that included dozens of clergy as well
as city and state political leaders. Now that same labor-community
coalition is focusing on an effort to unionize the 2,000 service
workers at the university's affiliated institution, Yale-New
Haven Hospital. Melinda Tuhus reports from New Haven, Connecticut.
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First Son, Now Mother: NYPD Police Brutality continues
(3:45)
Late last month an African American man, Nathaniel Jones,
died as a result of being beaten by six policemen in the city
of Cincinnati. Last Wednesday, the Hamilton County Coroner
said Jones’ death was homicide, but that such a ruling
"should not be interpreted as implying inappropriate
behavior or the use of excessive force by police." Earlier
this year, Juanita Young, the mother of Malcolm Ferguson,
a young man killed by a NY police officer, herself became
a victim of police brutality. Ama Buadi reports.
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