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Today's lead stories:
9-11 Bill Raises Concerns for Immigrants
Red Cross and Lawyers Say US Engaged in Torture
Texas Woman Awaits Execution
Colombian Women Victims of Internal War
Change the Constitution for Arnold or for Immigrant Rights?
FSRN Headlines
Recounts Around the Nation
Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb filed official
requests for a presidential ballot recount in New Mexico and
Nevada. As in Ohio, Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik
joined him. Today a hand recount of New Hampshire ballots
wrapped up. In New Hamshire, Avishay Artsy has the story.
Supreme Court to Determine How Far Title IX Reaches
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if someone reporting gender
discrimination is as equally protected as those who are being
discriminated against. Heather Buckheim reports from D.C.
NLRB Says Temp Workers Not Equal
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that temporary workers
are not equal to permanent status workers. Sarah Turner has
more from the Worker’s Independent News Service.
UN Says UK Violates Children's Rights
The United Nations has voiced "grave concern" about
the violation of children's rights in Britain. Naomi Fowler
has more from London
Ridge Leaves Homeland Security
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge formally announced
his resignation this afternoon from the department. Ridge
ended his second term as Pennsylvania governor early so that
he could help create the Homeland Security department. In
prior interviews, Ridge said that he would likely leave the
6-figure position because of the stress and need to make more
money to send his two children through college. One news magazine
reported that Ridge has job opportunities with a few large
defense contractors and a politically connected Philadelphia
law firm that works on homeland security
Mfume Leaves NAACP
President of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights
organization in the United States, is leaving. Kweisi Mfume
left his U.S. Congressional seat 9 years ago to lead the organization.
He denies any internal troubles with Chairman Julian Bond
and says it is just time to move on.
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9-11 Bill Raises Concerns for Immigrants
(4:07)
Today the two chairs of the 9/11 Commission and some 9/11
family member groups increased the pressure on Congress to
pass the intelligence and national security reform bill when
it reconvenes next week. However, with the increasing pressure,
other 9/11 family groups are backing Republican lawmakers
who have stalled the bill because it lacks several anti-immigration
provisions. Though the House bill would do more to crack down
on illegal immigration, the Senate-House conference committee’s
tenuous agreement also raises civil liberties and immigration
concerns. Mitch Jeserich reports.
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Red Cross and Lawyers Say US Engaged in Torture
(3:55)
Today's New York Times disclosed a report by the International
Committee of the Red Cross charging that the U.S. military
participated in acts of torture at Guantanamo prison. The
charges come as the Center for Constitutional Rights today
filed war crimes charges against Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and eight other Bush Administration and military
officials for criminal complaints of torture inside Abu Ghraib
prison. The DC Radio Co-op's Selina Musuta reports from Washington,
DC.
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Texas Woman Awaits Execution (4:04)
On the eve of the scheduled execution of Frances Newton
in Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union has issued a
report called “the forgotten population," which
takes a look at death row in America through the eyes of women.
From KPFT in Houston, Renee Feltz has more.
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Colombian Women Victims of Internal War
(4:05)
Latin American nations last week celebrated the International
Day of No Violence Against Women, a date which commemorates
the rape, torture and murder of four sisters in the Dominican
Republic who were victims of the repressive Trujillo regime.
In Colombia, women and girls have been the hidden victim of
the country’s 40-year-old armed conflict. Last year,
220 women were killed for socio-political reasons outside
combat – in the street, home or workplace – and
20 were “disappeared”. From Bogotá, Nicole
Karsin reports
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Change the Constitution for Arnold or for Immigrant
Rights? (4:10)
A proposed constitutional amendment would allow foreign-born
citizens to become president if they have been naturalized
Americans for at least twenty years. The inspiration and likely
first beneficiary of such an amendment is the Austrian-born
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who came to the
United States when he was 21. But, as Kellia Ramares reports,
the movement to allow foreign born citizens to become president
has more to do with Schwarzenegger himself and his support
for war and big business than it does for immigrant rights.
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