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Today's lead stories:
Does Freedom = Imperialism? Post Inauguration Analysis
Anti-Bush Protests Continue in DC
Social Security to Hit Young Hard
Poor Women Talk about Bush's "Healthy Marriage Initiative"
Police Killing of Aboriginal Man in Canada Sparks Outrage
Farewell to FSRN Anchor, Deepa Fernandes
FSRN Headlines
Palestinian Security Heads to Northern Gaza
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is testing his leadership
today as he sends in security forces to the northern Gaza
Strip. Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they will continue to defy
the occupation by the Israeli military. A spokesman from Hamas
has said however that they will cease rocket and mortar launches
while they are talking with representatives from the Palestinian
Authority. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed to give
Abbas time to resolve the situation. Local Palestinians are
critical that the Israeli military has yet to leave the area
and concerned they are making moves to claim more Palestinian
land.
UK Hopes to Ease EU Weapons Sanctions on China
British officials are in Beijing saying they will help lift
European Union sanctions imposed after the Tianamen Square
massacre, over objections from the U.S. and Japanese governments.
Naomi Fowler reports from London.
US Judge Hands Blow to Prisoners at Gitmo
A federal district judge ruled this week that foreign nationals
held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had no legal basis to challenge
their imprisonment. Adam Sharon reports from D.C.
Mexican Military Takes over Prisons
The Mexican military and federal police agents have taken
control of all of Mexico's maximum-security prisons. Shannon
Young has the story.
Brazil to Mediate Colombia/Venezuela Dispute
Brazil has offered to mediate the dispute between Colombia
and Venezuela that arose after Colombian authorities admitted
to paying off bounty hunters to kidnap a Colombian guerrilla
commander on Venezuelan soil. From Bogotá, Nicole Karsin
has more.
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Does Freedom = Imperialism? Post Inauguration Analysis
- 3:04
As we go to air, news just in is that after four years on
the job as the head of the FCC, today chairman Michael Powell,
son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, resigned. Powell
has presided over one of the largest roll backs to media consolidation
laws in recent years. Meanwhile, critics to President Bush's
inaugural address call Bush's assertion of spreading freedom
and democracy around the world a neo conservative ploy to
assert US imperialism in key locations around the world. Mitch
Jeserich reports.
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Anti-Bush Protests Continue in DC - 2:20
Six people are still in custody, after 65 people were arrested
last night following a confrontation with police officers
over bricks being thrown at a McDonald's window in Washington,
DC. And this morning President Bush attended a prayer service
at the National Cathedral, where Rev. Billy Graham thanked
God for helping elect President Bush and VP Cheney for another
term. Yet many of the tens of thousands of people who came
to voice their opposition to the President's inauguration
yesterday, are staying in DC to fight for a another vision
for the United States. Ingrid Drake from the DC Radio Co-op
files this report.
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Social Security to Hit Young Hard - 2:57
The Bush Administration's contention that social security
will be bankrupt by 2042 is driving plans for reforming the
system. The Administration is promising older Americans that
benefits won't be affected in their lifetimes, while telling
younger audiences that radical changes are needed to keep
the system afloat. Leigh Robartes takes a look at how the
touted private investment accounts and slowdown in benefit
increase might impact different age groups.
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Poor Women Talk about Bush's "Healthy Marriage
Initiative" - 4:02
As FSRN reported yesterday, the Bush administration is pressing
forward with its agenda of promoting marriage as an alternative
to poverty, especially among low income women of color. Today,
we speak with low-income women and their supporters to find
out what they think of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. Correspondent
Sarah Olson has the story.
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Police Killing of Aboriginal Man in Canada Sparks
Outrage - 3:32
The new year began on the Norway House First Nation in northern
Manitoba, Canada, with the shooting of an aboriginal man Dennis
St. Paul by an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
(RCMP). Aboriginal communities in Manitoba and throughout
Canada are demanding a public inquiry into the RCMP shooting
death, which also has many aboriginal community activists
reflecting on the long history of documented police brutality
against aboriginal people at the hands of the RCMP. FSRN's
Stefan Christoff reports from Montreal.
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Farewell to FSRN Anchor, Deepa Fernandes
- 2:18
As we close out today's newscast, it is with much sadness
that i report that this will be my last day as the anchor
of FSRN. My almost 3 years with FSRN have been an incredible
educational journey for me. To all the reporters and staff
with whom i have had the honor to work with, i salute and
thank you all. And i am honored to have been a part of a truly
grassroots, diverse, community driven national newscast. We
close with an audio journey of some of the stories that i
have been privileged to have covered over the past 3 years,
this compilation is by FSRN's producer Monica Lopez. From
next week, Aura Bogado of pacifica station KPFK will be sitting
in as anchor for the next two weeks.
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