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Today's lead stories:
Grass Roots Effort to Impeach Bush over Downing Street Memos
Unreported Violence in Iraq
Employment Guarantee Act in India
Boulder City Council Considers Building Waste Treatment on
Sacred Lands
Paul Wolfowitz Protested at World Bank
Religious Discrimination at Air Force Academy
FSRN Headlines
People in the Netherlands are voting today on whether to
support the European Union constitution. Only the Parliament
may actually approve or reject adoption of the document. However,
most political parties pledged to vote along with the majority
of today’s Dutch voters, as long as 30-percent of the
population goes to the polls. At deadline, more than 31-percent
voters in the Netherlands cast their ballot. Historically
most votes are cast after work.
Political leaders in Palestine are trying to quell a disagreement
between two major parties and are delaying a scheduled re-vote.
Manar Jibreen explains from the International Middle East
Media Center.
The United Nations Security Council extended the mandate
for another 24 days of the so-called peacekeeping force in
Haiti as violence erupted in the nation's capital. Reed Lindsay
has more from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The first register of genetically modified contamination
incidents has been created. Naomi Fowler has more from London.
Day laborers in D.C. started organizing this morning before
the sun came up to fight together against what they call dire
conditions. From the D.C. Radio Coop, Tom Gomez reports.
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Grass Roots Effort to Impeach Bush over Downing Street
Memos (4:01)
President Bush told reporters today that he was caught by
surprise that the former number 2 official at the FBI, Mark
Felt, was Watergate's Deep Throat, who leaked information
to the Washington Post which lead to Richard Nixon's resignation.
Bush said he's anxious to learn more details about Felt's
relationship to the media and that it is hard for the President
to judge whether Felt provided a valuable public service or
acted improperly. Meanwhile, the grass roots effort to impeach
George Bush over the Downing Street memos has been launched.
Memos leaked from the British government indicate that Prime
Minister Tony Blair and President Bush conspired to invade
Iraq before their intention was made public. Mitch Jeserich
has more.
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Unreported Violence in Iraq (3:17)
The situation in Iraq is growing increasingly violent, with
77 US Soldiers and 600 Iraqis killed last month. An average
of 70 attacks occur per day throughout the country, and the
month of May has been one of the bloodiest thus far. The US
Military admitted today that a suicide bomber attacked the
main checkpoint to Baghdad International Airport, wounding
approximately 15 Iraqis. This latest incident is just one
among many acts of violence in the war in Iraq, but with a
lack of journalists on the ground, many go unreported. Eric
Klein has more.
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Employment Guarantee Act in India (3:55)
A campaign is now underway in India to garner support for
the fundamental right for the country's residents to be free
from hunger and malnutrition. While a bill called the Employment
Guarantee Plan is under consideration in the Indian Parliament,
the county's poor continue to starve while government warehouses
overflow with grains. FSRN Correspondent Binu Alex reports
from Panchmahals, one of the poorest districts in western
India.
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Boulder City Council Considers Building Waste Treatment
on Sacred Lands (2:30)
A proposal by the Boulder City Council in Colorado to develop
a waste treatment plant on an area sacred to Native Americans
has brought together a coalition of protestors to oppose the
plan. Residents gathered last night at City Council offices
where a study session on the development was taking place.
Maeve Conran more.
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Paul Wolfowitz Protested at World Bank (2:42)
According to a new report issued by Mexico's Labor Research
and Union Consulting Center, up to 2,500 workers in that country
lose their jobs daily due to closing factories and low sales.
The report adds that older workers are now more likely to
take low-wage jobs, with poor working conditions that demand
they work longer than 8 hours- typically in multinational
factories. Meanwhile, in Washington, a coalition of civil
society groups held a demonstration outside World Bank headquarters
to protest its new president, Paul Wolfowitz. The activists
are seeking to reform World Bank policies and attempted to
deliver a letter naming issues and demands. Jenny Johnson
reports.
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Religious Discrimination at Air Force Academy
(2:58)
The Air Force Academy conducted a survey in 2004 of its
faculty and staff which showed that there were religious respect
issues that were being ignored. In summer of that year, the
Academy conducted focus groups with graduate students who
also expressed concerns about religious tolerance, the Academy
then interviewed cadets when they returned in the fall. In
over two months they received 55 reports of incidents of religious
discrimination which occurred over the last four years from
2000 to 2005. In Colorado Springs, Maria Cecile Callier has
more.
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