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Today's lead stories:
Greenspan says cut Social Security
Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: Ralph Nader
Free-trade Agreement Between Jordan & Singapore
Massive Road Blocks Against Argentine President Kirchner
Cross Burning Covered Up on LA Campus
Agricultural Workers Shut Out in Senegal
FSRN Headlines
Ready to Take Port-au-Prince
An armed resistance to President Jean Bertrand Aristide is
poised to rush the capitol Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Their leader,
Guy Philippe says they want to arrest Aristide on corruption
and other charges. The Associated Press reports that Philippe
says the attack is NOT imminent. The leader reportedly says,
"We're just going to take our positions and wait for
the right time."
UN Discusses Haiti
The United Nations Security Council is meeting concerning
the crisis. Haider Risvi reports from the UN.
England Spied on UN Secretary General
England spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in an attempt
to get a leg up on the world stage in the days leading up
to the invasion of Iraq, according to a former minister. Naomi
Fowler reports from London.
Lead Emergency in DC Water
Residents in the nation’s capitol are calling for the
federal Environmental Protection agency and their local government
to declare a state of emergency in response to high levels
of lead contamination in homes and schools. Ingrid Drake reports
from D.C.
Teens of Color 50-50 on HS Diploma
Latin youth and other teens of color are far less likely to
graduate from high school according to a Harvard University
study. Chuck Rosina reports from Boston.
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Greenspan says cut Social Security (4:15)
Yesterday Federal Reserve Chairman Allan Greenspan told
Congress that the government will be unable to meet its Social
Security obligations in the near future. While supporting
President Bush's tax cuts, Greenspan suggests cuts should
be made to Social Security benefits sometime soon. Capitol
Hill Republicans are using Greenspan's dire projection to
promote private individualized accounts, which critics call
a major step towards the privatization of the benefits program
for seniors and people with disabilities. Mitch Jeserich reports
from Capitol Hill.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: Ralph Nader
(2:24)
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Free-trade Agreement Between Jordan & Singapore
(2:05)
Jordan's King Abdullah said yesterday the Arab world has
"a lot to learn" from Asia and urged Middle East
countries to look east rather than to the West for role models
in political and economic reform. This as Jordan and Singapore
signed a free trade agreement that is not being received warmly
in Jordan. Our correspondent Oula Farawati has more from Amman,
Jordan.
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Massive Road Blocks Against Argentine President Kirchner
(3:07)
Argentina today announced that a court order in the U.S.
freezing some of the country's property in the Washington
area had been lifted. The injunction was imposed this month
by a Washington area judge at the request of NML Capital Ltd.,
a Cayman Islands-based fund that is suing Argentina for $172
million in compensation for defaulted debt. The countries
economic woes continue with unemployment at 20% leaving many
in the worker’s movements questioning the policies of
the so-called progressive President Kirchner. In response
to the growing unemployment, the organized piqueteros blockades
of bridges and major routes all over the country stepped up
last week. As Matt from the Autono-media Cooperative reports
from Buenos Aires, thousands participated in the first organized
roadblock against President Kirchner since the beginning of
his administration.
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Cross Burning Covered Up on LA Campus (3:19)
In a case that has attracted virtually no media attention,
recently four students from the Claremont College Consortium,
situated just south of Los Angeles, burned a large cross on
campus. The closely-knit Consortium consists of five colleges
from which two students from Harvey Mudd, one student from
Claremont McKenna and one student from Scripps stole a cross
from the Pomona campus that was created as a piece of art.
They dragged the cross back to the Harvey Mudd campus, where
the 11-foot cross was set ablaze. Instead of calling the police,
the school disposed of the evidence and kept the crime a secret.
KPFK’s Aura Bogado has this FSRN special report.
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Agricultural Workers Shut Out in Senegal
(3:57)
Last month countries sharing the Senegal River valley gathered
in Saint Louis Senegal to discuss liberalization and research
in the agriculture sector. The high-level conference explored
ways to set up a contract employment system that would work
to benefit farmers, industrialists, investors and the government,
leaving out the many poor people who work the land. Further
angering agricultural workers was the focus on the importance
of research and biotechnology as a solution to the region’s
agricultural shortcomings. From Senegal, Ndiaga Seck reports.
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