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Today's lead stories:
Students Stand Against Bush's Proposed Budget Cuts
French May Vote NO on EU Constitution Due to Neo-Liberal Directive
Opinions Split Over Naranda Modi In New York and India
Logging Ban Lifted in the Philippines
"Pesticide Babies" Born to Immokalee Farm Workers
Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: Critics and Occupations
FSRN Headlines
FBI Calls Military Interrogation Practices Suspect
Internal U.S. government documents show that FBI agents called
intelligence gathered through the Pentagon’s coercive
interrogation practices at Guantanamo Bay suspect. Mitch Jeserich
has more.
EPA Tosses Harvard Study Over Results
Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency disregarded
a scientific study they co-authored and paid for when they
announced mercury emission standards. Erika McDonald has more.
UN Water Day
On World Water Day, United Nations representatives are calling
for global leaders to insure that everyone has access to the
essence of human existence – clean water. Haider Rizvi
reports from the UN.
Indian Parliament Closer to Restricting Patents
India’s Parliament passes a restrictive patent law that
some believe may curb inexpensive drug manufacturing for the
third world. Binu Alex reports from Ahmdebad.
Students on Hunger Strike for Janitors' Wages
Georgetown University students are on a hunger strike until
janitors at their school get a living wage. Brain Zinn has
more from D.C.
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Students Stand Against Bush's Proposed Budget Cuts
(3:48)
Over 250 college students from across the country headed
to Capitol Hill to urge their representatives not to support
Bush's proposed budget cuts to education. Bush's proposals
to cut billions of dollars from education, community development,
water projects and other programs have further divided the
house and senate. Selina Musuta of the dc radio coop has more
from Capitol Hill.
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French May Vote NO on EU Constitution Due to Neo-Liberal
Directive (3:59)
On the agenda for a European Union heads of state summit
in Brussels today and tomorrow was discussion for ambitious
plans to be at the top of world by 2010. The agenda, instead,
has been dominated by growing concerns that the French may
reject the planned European constitution in their referendum
on May 29. Pressure is mounting for the redrafting of the
so-called "Bolkestein directive" on liberalization
of services. Opponents of the constitution say the directive
proves that Brussels wants to run Europe for business not
people, while supporters of the constitution fear the move
toward liberalization will help the 'no' vote in France's
referendum. FSRN's Tony Cross reports.
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Opinions Split Over Naranda Modi In New York and
India (2:03)
Despite the retraction of his visa, Indian Hindu Nationalist
elected official Naranda Modi spoke via teleconference in
New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday to thousands of
supporters -- while hundreds protested outside. The divided
Indian American community in New York illustrates a similar
rift over policy in India. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell has more.
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Logging Ban Lifted in the Philippines (3:13)
A municipal administrator and a police officer in the Nueva
Ecija province of the Philippines have been charged with aiding
illegal logging activities, for allowing the transport of
3,000 board feet of hardwood. The Department of Environment
and Natural Resources said the two arrests illustrate the
government's campaign against illegal logging. A complete
logging ban was instituted across the Philippines about three
months ago, after the deaths of over 1,000 people in the wake
of four typhoons were blamed on over-logging. Yet Philippines
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has lifted part of the loggin
ban to provide the country with necessary lumber and create
jobs- a strategy that critics contend focuses the timber industry
on the country's only remaining native forests. From Manila,
FSRN's Carey Biron reports.
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"Pesticide Babies" Born to Immokalee Farm
Workers (3:58)
The recent birth of 3 babies with birth defects to South
Florida farm workers has brought on an investigation by state
officials. All 3 farm workers were Mexican immigrants, and
all 3 worked on the same field, which was sprayed with pesticides
that may have caused the babies to become deformed during
the mother's pregnancies. From WMNF radio in Tampa, Andrew
Stelzer has the story.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: Critics and Occupations
(3:04)
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