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Today's lead stories:
Miami Prepares for Debate No.1
Corporate Sponsorship of Debates
IMF to Loan Iraq Half a Billion Dollars
Casino Lobbying Investigation Begins
Humanitarian Aid for Haiti?
FSRN Headlines
Large Scale Offensive in Gaza
At least twenty-four Palestinians have been killed and hundreds
more injured today as Israeli military forces escalated their
large-scale offensive in the northern Gaza Strip. Laila el-Haddad
reports from Gaza City.
Ashcroft to Appeal Anti-Patriot Act Ruling
John Ashcroft says the so-called U.S. Patriot act is within
the bounds of the constitution despite a recent court ruling.
Heather Buckheim reports from D.C.
NYC Learning Centers Shut Down
Nearly 2-dozen New York City learning centers that offer high
school equivalency diplomas have been shut down due to a recent
reorganization. Leigh Ann Caldwell reports from WBAI in New
York.
Feds Say FL Dept of Ed. Mismanaged Millions
The Federal Education department claims the Florida Department
of Education has mismanaged tens of millions of dollars that
was to fund the state’s charter schools. From WMNF in
Tampa, Andrew Stelzer reports.
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Miami Prepares for Debate No.1 (5:00)
The City of Miami is preparing for tonight’s first
presidential debate to be held at the University of Miami
in Coral Gables. This morning hundreds of community organizers
and unions took to main highway opposite the debate site and
formed an unemployment line. The protest activities around
the city of Miami also included a Honk and Wave against Bush
and a large anti-war rally is scheduled for tonight in the
vicinity of the debate site. Meanwhile last night the hip
hop community got together to slam bush, the culmination of
a nationwide hip hop poetry slam competition that aims to
send Bush back to Texas and mobilize the hip hop community
to vote. FSRN Host Deepa Fernandes was at the slam and the
protests this morning and she brings us this report.
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Corporate Sponsorship of Debates (3:56)
The first of three Presidential Debates tonight has been
as a key moment in this election season. But with decreasing
viewing among the public, and increasing corporate sponsorship,
some question what purpose the debates serve. Darby Hickey
of the DC Radio Coop reports.
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IMF to Loan Iraq Half a Billion Dollars
(3:51)
When it meets in Washington this weekend, the International
Monetary Fund will be loaning Iraq close to half a billion
dollars. This on top of Iraq's already crushing debt burden
of more than $120 billion -- racked up by Saddam Hussein in
the 1980s when his Ba'ath regime was supported by America.
The new loan came after the US-appointed Iraqi Government
made an $81 million payment on its old debt and agreed to
accept a policy of structural adjustment that will lead the
country -- which was socialist under Saddam -- towards a free
market where foreign companies would be able control much
of Iraq's resources. Aaron Glantz has the story.
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Casino Lobbying Investigation Begins (4:02)
A Senate hearing has begun over investigations of a Republican
lobbyist and a former aid to GOP leader of the House Tom Delay.
Both been accused of manipulating 6 Native American tribes
and their tribal elections to win contracts worth over 60
million dollars. Mitch Jeserich reports from Capitol Hill.
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Humanitarian Aid for Haiti? (2:36)
Today in Washington, members from Congressional Black Caucus
met with Haitian humanitarian organizations to ask Congress
and the Bush Administration for up to $500 million dollars
to assist the victims of the hurricanes that have left thousands
of people homeless and displaced in Haiti and the Caribbean.
Dolores M. Bernal has more from Capitol Hill.
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