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Today's lead stories:
Sudan and UN Resolution
Unity Conference
Green Party Candiate David Cobb
Glyphosate Spraying in Colombia
Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombing Anniversary
FSRN Headlines
Iraqi fighters and U.S. forces in Iraq are still locked in
armed conflict as the casualty count continues to rise. Dave
Enders reports from Baghdad.
Today, the Israeli military finally released their hold on
the border crossing from Gaza to Egypt after 3 weeks. Laila
El-Haddad reports from Gaza.
The Nigerian government is cracking down hard on what they
consider to be extreme Islamic groups. Several people have
been killed in Northern Nigeria following a police raid. Sam
Olukoya reports from Lagos.
26-thousand U.S. retirees can claim part of 75-million dollars
in pension money. Sarah Turner with the Worker’s Independent
News Service explains.
Unhealthy levels of bacteria in the water closed the nation's
beaches a record number of days last year, according to a
recent environmental report. Erika McDonald reports.
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Sudan and UN Resolution
The United Nations announced today that the Sudanese Cabinet
has approved a UN-sponsored plan to begin disarming Arab militants
in Western Darfur in the next 30 days. The news comes as the
African Union prepares to deploy a token force to the region
to protect truce observers, and amid reports that the militas
are continuing to massacre Darfurian civilians. Susan Wood
has more from the UN.
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Unity Conference
Over 8,000 journalists of color converged in Downtown Washington,
DC for the 3rd gathering of UNITY, an alliance between the
National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Native American
Journalists Assoication, National Association of Black Journlists,
and the Asian American Journalists Association. Selena Musuta
has more.
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Green Party Candiate David Cobb
Meanwhile, Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb
is now on the ballot in 29 states. The Green Party is aiming
to put the Cobb/LaMarche ticket in a total of 35 states. Today,
FSRN's Mitch Jeserich spoke with David Cobb about his candidacy.
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Glyphosate Spraying in Colombia
This month marks four years of Plan Colombia, the $3 billion
US-sponsored anti-drug program, using the Monsanto-made herbicide
called glyphosate to spray the Colombian countryside. It's
been four years in which Colombian campesinos, officials,
and women's groups have marched in mass to protest the arial
fumigations and the displacement, hunger, health ailments
and lack of work they've caused. However, both the US and
Colombian governments continue to insist that arial fumigation,
with unreleased levels of herbicide, is the only answer to
the drug war. Reporting from Colombia's Magdalena Medio and
Bogotá, Nicole Karsin examines what 4 years of fumigations
has meant for Colombians.
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombing Anniversary
That's the voice of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, speaking
in 1958 against the use of nuclear weapons. Fifty nine years
ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the
Japanese city of Hiroshima killing, instantly killing more
than 80,000 people. Three days later, more than 75,000 people
died after the US dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
While between 50 and 100,000 people gathered yesterday in
Hiroshima to recognize the lives lost, Survivors of the Nagasaki
blast are in Washington, DC for a series of commemoration
events. Despite nonproliferation treaties, there are at least
20,000 nuclear weapons on the planet, half of which are in
the US arsenal. The Bush Administration is designing a national
missile defense system in Alaska, with peripheral sites in
Australia and Argentina. The DC Radio Co-op brings us sound
from a commemoration event at the Roosevelt Memorial last
night.
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