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Today's lead stories:
Republicans on Bush’s Domestic Policy
Wrap up of the RNC: Inside & Outside
Final Arrest Count: Thousands
Vigil for the Fallen as Bush Accepts Nomination
Fire Fighters Union Endorses Bush?
Community Organizers on Next Steps Post-RNC
UN Slow to Act on Sudan
Workers Rights Under Debate in India
FSRN Headlines
Job Growth Slow
More new jobs were created last month according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. Yet the pace is still far off the rate
established in the past decade. Jenny Johnson has more.
Activists Protest AIDS Cuts
Youth activists in the District of Colombia voiced their opposition
to a million dollar cut to federal funding for HIV/AIDS programs.
The activists say the numbers of cases among them is the highest
in the country. Gladys Brooks
reports from D.C.
U.N. Demands Troop Withdrawl from Lebanon
The 15-member United Nations Security Council passed by a
vote of 9-0 a demand that all foreign troops should leave
Lebanon and to support free elections in that country. Arab
diplomats called the vote a U.S. strong-arm move against
the Syrian government. Haider Rizvi reports from the U.N.
Strike in Brazil Continues
Professors in a third of Brazil’s public universities
are still on strike. Natalia Viana has the story from Sao
Paolo.
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Republicans on Bush’s Domestic Policy
Last night President George Bush gave his nomination acceptance
speech. Disrupted twice by protestors on the floor of Madison
Square Garden, half the speech was dedicated to war-talk and
the other half to domestic policies. While the delegates cheered
for every line, as FSRN’s Mitch Jeserich reports, not
all Republicans agree with where the Bush-Cheney ticket is
heading on domestic policy.
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Wrap up of the RNC: Inside & Outside
Last night the RNC came to a close after four tumultuous
days with George W Bush accepting the nomination from the
Republican Party, with a speech that had broad gestures, but
few specifics. Christopher Sprinkle put together this wrap
up of the week's events at the Garden and around the city.
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Final Arrest Count: Thousands
Friends and family of those detained this week in New York
stood outside of Central booking holding cells to get word
about their loved ones inside. According to the NYPD, over
1,800 people were arrested this last week on charges ranging
from failure to disperse to weapon possession. FSRN’s
Leigh Ann Caldwell and Aura Bogado report.
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Vigil for the Fallen as Bush Accepts Nomination
Last night as George Bush was preparing to accept the GOP
presidential nomination, Veterans for Peace organized a "vigil
for the fallen" in New York's Union Square to reflect
on the sacrifices made by US soldiers who fought in the Iraq
War. FSRN’s Vinny Lombardo was there and brings us this
short Collage
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Fire Fighters Union Endorses Bush?
On Wednesday, one labor day event overshadowed all others
in the media, when Steven Cassidy, President of the Uniformed
Fire Fighters Association local 94, surprised organized labor
by endorsing George W. Bush for re-election. WIN correspondent,
Sarah Turner, has the story.
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Community Organizers on Next Steps Post-RNC
With the Republican National Convention ending yesterday,
many who took to the streets in New York City to protest,
continue to plan ways to organize for the elections and beyond.
Selina Musuta of the DC Radio Co-op reports.
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UN Slow to Act on Sudan
Over the last several days media interest has been focused
on the Republican Convention in New York. Meanwhile though,
the UN Security Council has been meeting to decide on whether
to impose sanctions on the Sudanese government for its support
of militias which have been responsible for the deaths of
tens of thousands of civilians in Sudan's Darfur region. Despite
the evidence of massive human rights abuses and atrocities,
no action has been agreed upon by the Security Council and
it seems unlikely that international peace-keepers will be
deployed to the area. Yet, in Sudan, other communities who
have known the terror of the militias call on the US and the
international community to do more. Rupert Cook reports.
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Workers Rights Under Debate in India
This past weekend, the All India Motor Transport Congress
(AIMTC) ended its 'indefinite' truckers strike after it reached
an agreement with Government. AIMTC, India's largest truck
union with nearly three million vehicles, had called the nationwide
strike to protest a proposed 10 percent service tax on freight
booking agents. The strike cost millions to the industries.
This comes as India marks one year since the Indian Supreme
Court ruled that government employees do not have the right
to strike in India, and as our correspondent Binu Alex reports,
while some feel that mass strikes drain the economy and end
up hurting many people, others are worried that workers rights
in India are under attack.
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