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Today's lead stories:
RNC Part 1: Un-spinning War on Terror Theme
RNC Part 2: Police Force escalates on streets
RNC Part 3: NYPD & FDNY protest Mayor Bloomberg
RNC Part 4: Sounds from RNC Night 1
RNC Part 5: GOP Muslim on crackdown against Muslims
East Timor Aniversary
FSRN Headlines
French diplomats are trying to persuade kidnappers in Iraq
to release two French journalists even though Islamic and
political leaders in France insist on keeping the ban on wearing
religious headscarves in public schools – the kidnapper’s
demand for their release. Tony Cross reports from Paris.
Violating official British government policy, nuclear waste
from overseas power stations has been sealed in concrete and
buried in several miles of trenches in Britain. From London,
Naomi Fowler has more.
Over 500 health care workers staged a one-day walkout at
the Alameda county medical facilities, protesting plans to
cut 200-300 jobs from the financially strapped medical center.
Kellie Ramares reports from Oakland.
Early this morning, about three dozen activists wearing pig
snouts, and rolling in piles of funny money greeted Texas
GOP delegates at New York's Hilton Hotel, where oil &
gas giant Halliburton sponsored a Celebrity Breakfast. Vinny
Lombardo was there.
U.S. Corporate Chief Executive Officers who outsourced the
most jobs overseas last year also happen to have received
the highest salaries and benefit packages according to a recent
report by the Institute for Policy Studies. Overall pay increases
for CEO’s rose 9-percent, while overall incomes in the
United States rose only 3 point 2 percent, according to the
U.S. Commerce Department. CEOs at the top 50 firms that outsource
saw their compensation packages jump 46-percent last year.
The study makes no claim that there is a direct “cause
and effect” relationship between outsourcing and CEO
compensation.
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RNC Part 1: Un-spinning War on Terror Theme
Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will
be the keynote speaker at tonight’s National Republican
Convention in New York City. Last night another so called
moderate Republicans Senator John McCain and former New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani addressed the convention and stressed
that President Bush’s war on terror must continue forward.
So far the central theme of the convention has been on the
war of terror. Mitch Jeserich brings us this story from inside
Madison Square Garden.
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RNC Part 2: Police Force escalates on streets
As delegates continue to make their way through the Convention,
protestors outside are facing increased surveillance and repression
from the NYPD and Secret Service. Many of those inside Madison
Square Garden say they feel safer by having a mass police
presence outside, but those confronted by the police say the
use of force is unnecessary. Aura Bogado reports.
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RNC Part 3: NYPD & FDNY protest Mayor Bloomberg
In the lead up to the RNC, the New York Police Department
and Fire Fighters, who have been working without a contract
for two years, were threatening to strike. While a strike
has not occurred, the police have followed New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg to his daily events and even to his house
to demand a fair contract for more than a month. And this
week they have been following him to his convention events.
FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell has more.
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RNC Part 4: Sounds from RNC Night 1
On the floor of the convention yesterday, some thirty speakers
spoke before the major media markets began covering the event.
Christopher Sprinkle brings us this sampling of some of those
left out, and some highlights of the two main speakers.
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RNC Part 5: GOP Muslim on crackdown against Muslims
One of the Prime Time speakers at the RNC last night was
Zainab Al-Suwaij , Executive Director of the American Islamic
Congress. She spoke about how Iraqis are grateful to President
Bush for the war in Iraq. FSRN Host Deepa Fernandes caught
up with her today and asked her if she would bring the case
of the unjust detention of Muslims in the US to President
Bush.
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East Timor Aniversary
East Timor is marking the fifth anniversary of its vote
for independence from Indonesia. The result of the referendum
sparked violence by Indonesian troops and pro-Jakarta militias,
in which up to 1,000 people were killed. Meggy Margiyono reporting
for FSRN from Jakarta.
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