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Today's lead stories:
Project Bioshield
Red Cross Report on Detainees
Gay Marriage Reactions
International AIDS Conference
AIDS, God and Condoms
Mad Pride Month
FSRN Headlines
Peace activists will be able to rally during the Republican
National Convention. Negotiations tomorrow with the New York
City Police will determine where it will be. Leigh Ann Caldwell
reports from WBAI.
U.S. diplomats are meeting with Pakistani officials hoping
to negotiate more troops from Pakistan to Iraq as well as
a way to steal headlines from the Democrats at home. Masror
Hussein reports from Islamabad.
Another Coca Cola plant in India is being accused of sucking
up the limited water supply by local protestors in a western
desert state that only receives 50cm of annual rainfall. Binu
Alex reports from Ahmedabad.
The United States Commission on Civil Rights is revisiting
voter disenfranchisement in Florida. Ambar Espinoza was attended
the meeting in D.C.
Thousands of workers marched and held rallies across Peru
yesterday. Reportedly, police arrested 76 demonstrators mostly
for blocking streets. The national work stoppage was called
by leftist labor organizations that consider President Alejandro
Toledo’s fee market policies an attack on what they
call their right to “bread and justice.” Many
people said however that the protest would have been much
larger but the Toledo government called out 93-thousand police
officers in the capitol and deployed troops across the country.
Government officials also issued a decree mandating worker’s
pay would be docked if they missed work.
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Project Bioshield
On Wednesday, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed a
project BioShield measure in which the government will pour
5.6 billion dollars into the pharmaceutical industry to develop
drugs and vaccines in the case of a chemical or biological
attack. The measure passed the Senate in May and now it's
heading to President Bush, who has indicated his support of
it. Meanwhile, Senate is working on a measure for a 13 billion
dollar buyout for tobacco farmers. Mitch Jeserich has more.
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Red Cross Report on Detainees
Following more allegations of violations of the Geneva Conventions
in the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, officials gave
an update on ongoing detainee-related and senior-level investigations
into these matters. Jenny Johnson has more.
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Gay Marriage Reactions
Now that the Federal Marriage Amendment has been killed
in the Senate, we focus on the LGBT immigrant community and
how they are affect by current immigration policy. Currently,
there are nearly 36,000 same sex bi-national couples in the
US today, according to the 2000 Census. Such couples cannot
petition or sponsor their foreign national partners to legally
live in the United States. Dolores M. Bernal has more on this
story from Washington DC.
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International AIDS Conference
The 15th Annual International AIDS Conference is underway
in Bangkok, Thailand. Demonstrators gathered at the summit
to hold a mock trial of the world's most industrialized nations
at the entrance to the conference center, demanding cheaper
drugs and more money to research treatments for the virus.
On the agenda for the annual Conference is the implementation
of strategies to combat HIV-AIDS. FSRN spoke with Kris Torgeson,
Communications Director for Doctors without Borders, who is
at the conference.
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AIDS, God and Condoms
Here in the United States, the Bush Administration is considering
putting new strings on the money it gives to community groups
that help to prevent the spread of AIDS. Under the proposed
guidelines, organizations receiving money from the Centers
for Disease Control would be required to emphasize abstaining
from sex as the only way to prevent the spread of AIDS. Problems
with condoms would also be emphasized. From KPFK, Aaron Glantz
has the story.
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Mad Pride Month
July is Mad Pride Month, modeled after Gay Pride, during
which psychiatric survivors speak out about human rights abuses
in the psychiatric industry. The Texas Medication Algorithm
Project, or TMAP, may be one such abuse. A whistleblower says
TMAP's proponents have financial ties to the drug industry,
friends in the White House, and that its pursuit of profit
is causing an unseemly recruitment of new patients. Mental
Health activists are awaiting an announcement before July
is out of a massive new screening program for the early detection
of mental illness, especially in children. The expensive patented
drugs in TMAP would be the favored course of treatment. Kellia
Ramares has more.
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