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Today's lead stories:
Gay Marriage Legal in MA - Victory for LGBT Communities?
President of Iraqi Governing Council is Assassinated
Historic Anniversary of Brown V Board of Ed. - Promises Unfulfilled?
Hunger Strikers Protest Failures of Brown Decision
Racial Tension high in St Petersburg, FL
FSRN Headlines
Gay Marriage Legal in MA ~ Victory for LGBT Communities?
As we reported in the headlines, the first state-sanctioned
and court-ordered marriage licenses were issued to lesbian
and gay couples today in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Senator
John Kerry, the likely Democratic Presidential Candidate,
says he supports an effort within the state to amend the constitution
to ban such marriages. While supporters and opponents of same-sex
marriage square off in front of city halls across the state,
even members of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
question the relevance of marriage rights. Darby Hickey report
from Boston.
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President of Iraqi Governing Council is Assassinated
More US troops are headed to Iraq, this time some 4000 will
be redeployed from their station in South Korea where 37,000
US troops are based. The move comes as the president of Iraq’s
Governing Council was killed this morning in a suicide bombing
near the coalition headquarters, making him the second member
of the Iraqi Governing Council to be assassinated. The first
member was one of only three women on Iraq’s Governing
Council, who was assassinated last September. U-S appointed
officials all over the country have been frequent targets
of political assassination, and our Baghdad correspondent
David Enders brings us Iraqi reaction to this latest assassination.
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Historic Anniversary of Brown V Board of Ed. ~ Promises
Unfulfilled?
Today 50 years ago the Supreme Court passed a landmark decision,
Brown v. Board of Education, which changed the way America’s
children were educated. 50 years later hundreds have rallied
in Washington, DC to say the promise of Brown v. Board of
Education remains unfulfilled. FSRN’s Gladys L. Brooks
of the DC-Coop reports.
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Hunger Strikers Protest Failures of Brown Decision
As the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of Brown
vs. the Board of Education today, seven hunger strikers in
California are saying that the principles provided for in
that Supreme Court decision 50 years ago have not been met.
The group of students and teachers are consuming nothing but
water until their demands for more funding for education are
met. Sarah Olson has more from Oakland.
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Racial Tension high in St Petersburg, FL
In 1996, police killed TyRon Lewis, an 18-year-old black
man, during a traffic stop in St Petersburg, Florida. In the
weeks following, hundreds of people took to the streets in
protest, and a series of confrontations between the black
community and police left several businesses and cars destroyed
by fire. 8 years later many in the community feel that promises
of economic investment in the mostly black south side of the
city have not been fulfilled. Now the Lewis families’
lawsuit against the city, and the death of another young black
male at the hands of police, has brought citizens back to
the streets, and reignited racial tensions throughout St Petersburg.
Free Speech Radio News correspondent Andrew Stelzer has the
story.
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