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Today's lead stories:
Demonstrators Stand against Bush's Plan for Social Security
Asia-Africa Summit Closes
Police Violence and Corruption Continues in Brazil
Argentineans Targeted for Deportation in South Florida
19th Anniversary of Chernobyl as Convention on Nuclear Safety
Closes
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: Journalists Covering the War in
Iraq Part 2
FSRN Headlines
Democratic and Republican Senators are attempting to resolve
a political deadlock that threatens to promote more conservative
judges and shut down the government. Kelly Giddens has more
from Capitol Hill.
More violent protests over sharp rises in oil and transportation
costs in Nicaragua are accompanied by a call from mayors for
the president to resign. Nan McCurdy reports from Managua.
Nigeria has sent a team of legislators and debt management
experts to the United States and Europe in an attempt to convince
western countries to cancel more than $35 billion of debt.
Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
The Sierra Club has again voted down a proposal that sought
to limit immigration in the US claiming it would curb environmental
degradation. Melinda Tuhus reports from New Haven.
The state of Texas received a 440-thousand dollar fine for
refusing to follow the federal education testing standards.
From KPFT in Houston, Renee Feltz reports.
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Demonstrators Stand against Bush's Plan for Social
Security (3:51)
Today President Bush held another so-called town hall meeting
in Galveston, Texas to promote his plan for Social Security.
Its part of his 60 city 60 day tour that is set to end on
May 1. However, the White House has indicated that the President
will continue traveling the country to hold such events- which
have been closed to people who are opposed to Bush's plan.
Meanwhile, demonstrators gathered at the Capitol in Washington
protesting the President's plan and to mark the first hearings
in the Senate on Social Security that began today. Mitch Jeserich
reports.
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Asia-Africa Summit Closes (2:48)
On Sunday, leaders from Asia and Africa concluded a three
day conference with a historic walk to mark the 50th Anniversary
of the 1955 Asia-Africa summit. From Jakarta, Meggy Margiyono
has the story.
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Police Violence and Corruption Continues in Brazil
(2:35)
Secretary of State Condolezza Rice arrived in Brazil today
on the first leg of her Latin American tour. Rice is scheduled
to visit Colombia, Chile and El Salvador during the next five
days. Over half of South American countries now have left-leaning
Presidents, all elected in the last few years - many of whom
have distanced themselves from Washington. Brazilian President
Ingacio "Lula" da Silva has frozen negotiations
for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA pact in favor
of consolidating Mercosur, an exclusively South American trading
block- reopening negotiations for the FTAA is one of Rice's
agenda items during her diplomatic tour, as the deadlock over
the new chief of the Organizations of American States. Meanwhile
in Brazil, the number of victims of the country's corrupt
police system is rising. Another massacre occurred in the
suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, this time 31 victims killed by
what is has been believed an organized operation from a police
group. In the past year, 2,000 civilians have been the victims
of police violence in the city of Rio de Janeiro alone. The
most past tragedy has brought about dialogue about the corruption
and violence inside the Brazil's police forces and government
authorities. FSRN's Toya Mileno reports.
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Argentineans Targeted for Deportation in South Florida
(3:06)
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in 2003,
between 8 and 9 million people were living in the United States
without proper documents. In Tampa, Florida, Argentine services
workers are protesting a new surge of round-ups and deportations
of undocumented immigrants over the last month, conducted
by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration.
From WMNF radio, Jen Germaine reports.
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19th Anniversary of Chernobyl as Convention on Nuclear
Safety Closes (2:58)
Today is the 19th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl
nuclear reactor, which devastated the region round it by spreading
radioactive pollution throughout Ukraine and making its way
into Western Europe. Meanwhile, in Vienna, the 2 week-long
Convention on Nuclear Safety of the International Atomic Energy
Agency has just wrapped up. Julia Steinberger reports.
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Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary: Journalists Covering
the War in Iraq Part 2 (3:37)
Five journalists have been arrested in the past two weeks
in Iraq- prompting Reporters without Borders to strongly urge
Iraqi authorities to be more discerning before making an arrest.
The organization says that arrests are often arbitrary, that
authorities have beaten journalists, and demand excessive
bail amounts. Our commentary today features journalist and
political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, commenting on embedded
journalists covering the war in Iraq.
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