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Today's lead stories:
Condoleeza Rice Hearing Highlights
Other Nomination Hearings
Interview with “Dr Anthrax’s” Husband
US Based Iraqis Register to Vote
College Activism Against Bush on the Rise
Social Security Series: Part 2: Effects on Women and People
of Color
FSRN Headlines
French Public Workers Strike
On day two of a series of public worker stoppages in France
– a strike by train workers disrupted rail traffic today
across the country. Nick Champeau reports from Paris.
This morning in Paris about a 1000 workers from the state
owned power and gas utilities demonstrated to protest the
plans that they say could also mean job cuts. Public Hospital
surgeons also took strike action today saying the health ministry
has not taken any action to improve their service and tomorrow
some five million civil servants are being called out to demand
a pay raise.
DC Hotel Workers Settle
The District of Columbia’s hotel management and hotel
workers struck a deal ending their contract dispute. Selina
Musuta of the DC Radio Co-op has more from Washington, DC.
Former L.A. Cop Wins 1.6 Million in Reverse Discrimination
Suit
A Los Angeles jury awarded $1.6 million to former Inglewood
Police Officer Jeremy Morse. Morse was videotaped slamming
and punching 16-year-old African American Donovan Jackson
in 2002. In Los Angeles, Aura Bogado.
Rights Groups Criticize Colombian Demobilization
Yesterday in Colombia as more than 900 right-wing paramilitary
fighters lined up to hand over their arms, a leading international
rights group criticized the Colombian government for failing
to prosecute and punish paramilitary fighters involved in
gruesome crimes against humanity. From Bogotá, Nicole
Karsin has more.
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Condoleeza Rice Hearing Highlights (2:31)
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed Dr. Condoleezza
Rice's nomination this afternoon 16 votes to 2, with the No
votes coming from California senator Barbara Boxer and Massachusetts
senator John Kerry. Christopher Sprinkle was on Capitol Hill
and begins our coverage with this audio montage of the 2 days
of hearings.
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Other Nomination Hearings (3:53)
While the Rice hearings received the Capitol Hill spotlight,
several of President Bush's other nominations to head various
Departments were also addressed by the Senate this week. And
today, Democrats temporarily stalled a vote on the nomination
of Alberto Gonzalez to head the Department of Justice. Mitch
Jeserich has more from Capitol Hill.
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Interview with “Dr Anthrax’s” Husband
(2:23)
With less than two weeks before planned elections in Iraq,
guerillas seem intent on proving they can strike wherever
and whenever they like. Today at least five car bombs were
detonated in Baghdad killing over dozen people. The targets
included the Australian embassy and the Iraqi army and police.
In addition, pictures were released today of torture by British
troops, including sexual humiliation. Amidst the violence,
many Iraqis have forgotten that the initial justification
for the U-S-led invasion was weapons of mass destruction.
But not the husband of Doctor Huda Ammash, one of the two
female scientists still being held in U-S custody. David Enders
files this report from Baghdad.
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US Based Iraqis Register to Vote (4:22)
Yesterday two presidential candidates were killed in Iraq
elevating the level of fear for those running. In fact, it
is widely reported that many Iraqi’s do not even know
who most of the candidates are because of the candidate’s
fear of being targeted by the resistance for running. And
while the nature of the participation by Iraqi’s in
the election remains dubious, here in the US today was the
final day of a three day registration period for US based
Iraqi citizens voting in the January 30th election. Despite
this historical opportunity, many Iraqis are choosing not
to participate because of stringent security requirements
and limited polling locations. Thibault Worth reports from
Irvine, California.
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College Activism Against Bush on the Rise
(3:03)
The nation’s capital is bracing for tomorrow’s
inauguration of President Bush amidst snow and a militarization
of the streets of DC. Despite the weather, tens of thousands
of protestors are expected and hundreds of campus delegations
will also be participating. But for many it will not be their
only act of resistance to the Bush Agenda. Ingrid Drake from
the DC Radio Co-op reports on an effort by a national progressive
organizations to support social justice activists on college
campuses across the US.
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Social Security Series: Part 2: Effects on Women
and People of Color (4:03)
In part 2 of FSRN’s special series on social security,
the debate behind the President’s proposal – to
invest social security into private accounts, today we look
at how this would affect women and people of color. FSRN’s
Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
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