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Today's lead stories:
Part 1: War on Fallujah ~ Report from Baghdad
Part 2: War on Fallujah ~ Residents fear Massacre
Did John Kerry Actually Win? Dems Ask for Investigation
Ivory Coast Conflict Strikes Up Again
Tanzanian Fair Trade Coffee: A Solution to Deepening Poverty
South Dakota: Fight to Keep Native Children in Native Homes
FSRN Headlines
Palestinian officials are complaining about getting little
information about Yasser Arafat who is in a Paris hospital,
by many accounts fighting for his life. Top officials, Prime
Minister Ahmed Qorei, acting PLO leader Mahmud Abbas, parliament
speaker Rawhi Fattuh and foreign minister Nabil Shaath all
left occupied Palestine to go to Arafat’s bedside to
see his condition for themselves and determine future action.
French medical officials said today that Arafat is in stable
condition.
Demonstrators in Germany chained themselves to railroad tracks
today to stop a shipment of nuclear waste coming from France.
Yesterday a 21-year-old activist died doing the same thing.
Tony Cross reports from Paris.
The southern Balkan country of Macedonia averted a slide
towards ethnic division on Sunday. Melik Keramian explains.
A general strike planned by India’s right wing stopped
normal business today as workers demanded the government to
do something about rising fuel prices. Binu Alex reports from
Kerala.
Texas school board officials are insisting that a textbook
publisher must clearly define marriage as between a man and
a woman and eliminate any ambiguous references like partner.
Jhanvi Thakar from KPFT reports.
Women are the fastest rising population in the U.S. prison
system. Noelle Hanrahan has more from Prison Radio.
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Part 1: War on Fallujah ~ Report from Baghdad
The US Marine Corp began Operation Phantom Fury against
the Iraqi city of Fallujah today by seizing the municipal
hospital. The Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera today quoted
one of the doctors at the hospital as saying all the doctors
and patients were arrested. From Baghdad, Salam Talib has
more.
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Part 2: War on Fallujah ~ Residents fear Massacre
When the US military last laid siege to Fallujah, so many
people were killed that the municipal football field had to
be turned into a mass grave for the dead. Residents of Fallujah
are already beginning to dig trenches for the anticipated
carnage, but burying the dead will be a difficult task because
American soldiers have orders to shoot to kill anything that
moves. Aaron Glantz has more.
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Did John Kerry Actually Win? Dems Ask for Investigation
In these post election days, many articles have been circulating
on the internet that claim that John Kerry actually won the
election or that the voting process was rigged. Today, Democratic
lawmakers asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate
voting irregularities of electronic voting machines in several
key states. In a letter to the GAO, three House Representatives
cite a case in Ohio which gave President Bush nearly 4,000
extra votes and another case in Florida where there was a
substantial drop off in Democratic votes in proportion to
the voter registration in counties that used optical scan
machines. Mitch Jeserich has more.
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Ivory Coast Conflict Strikes Up Again
In the west African nation of Ivory Coast, the 18 month
long peace truce was shattered late last week when government
forces carried out bombing raids on the rebel held north of
the country. Since Independence in 1960, Ivory Coast has been
a nation of relative stability, described as the “economic
capital of West Africa.” However since 1999, the country
has suffered a number of coup d’etats, followed by a
full-blown rebellion in 2000. The rebels now occupy the north
and the government controls the southern part of the country.
Over the weekend, government supporters turned on French troops
who are in the Ivory Coast as part of the so-called peace-keeping
mission, as suspicion grows that France is going to depose
the Ivorian president. Deepa Fernandes speaks with Philippe
Djangoné-Bi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
of Côte d'Ivoire to the United Nations.
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Tanzanian Fair Trade Coffee: A Solution to Deepening
Poverty
And while violence continues in various African nations,
many on the continent say that western nations such as the
US and France are selective in their aid and peace keeping
involvement, and that due to their economic interests in the
region are often times to blame for the violent conflicts.
The ever deepening poverty of the continent, analysts say,
comes as multinational corporations get richer. At a recent
meeting of the Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, heads
of state and policy experts gathered to discuss ways to alleviate
the continuing impoverishment of millions of Africans across
the continent. Fair trade campaigners called on the western
world to open up markets for African exports, as well as granting
a fairer deal for African producers of commodities like coffee.
As Rupert Cook reports from Tanzania, while the coffee processing
multinationals are increasing their profits, small-scale farmers
are sinking ever deeper into poverty.
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South Dakota: Fight to Keep Native Children in Native
Homes
The state of South Dakota recently completed public hearings
on the Indian Child Welfare Act. A special commission spent
two months accepting testimony from American Indian families
who complained that the federal law written to protect Indian
children from placement in non-Indian homes has been routinely
violated by the state's Department of Social Services. But,
as Jim Kent reports, American Indian families also see the
state's Department of Corrections as the enemy in their efforts
to keep Indian children in Indian homes.
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