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Today's lead stories:
Council of Europe Criticizes Britain's Human Right Record
Under Blair
President Bush Questioned Over Downing Street Memo
Senate Intelligence Committee Passes Patriot Act Reauthorization
Act
Coalition Pushes for AgJobs Bill
Opposition Mounting Against NAFTA Superhighway
High Schools Opposing Military Recruitment on Campus May Face
Federal Funding Cuts
FSRN Headlines
Today the streets of La Paz were relatively quiet. Miners,
laborers and other social groups are marching to Bolivia?s
capitol. Luis Gómez reports from La Paz.
Military spending worldwide has exceeded 1-trillion dollars.
Kate Paulman reports from D.C.
Textile workers in Mexico are putting pressure on toy company
Mattel to investigate the working conditions at a plant that
manufactures Barbie's wardrobe. Shannon Young files this report.
Farmworkers have sued the Environmental Protection Agency,
accusing the governmental watchdog of shirking their duty
on deadly pesticides. Brian Edwards-Tiekert reports from KPFA
in Berkeley.
A billboard linking George W. Bush with Osama Bin Laden went
up in Connecticut and met a largely positive reaction. Melinda
Tuhus reports from New Haven.
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Council of Europe Criticizes Britain's Human Right
Record Under Blair
The body responsible for monitoring human rights in Europe,
the Council of Europe has released a report today which heavily
criticizes Britain's human rights record under Tony Blair's
Labour government. From London, Naomi Fowler reports.
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President Bush Questioned Over Downing Street Memo
President Bush was questioned about the so-called Downing
Street Memo for the first time yesterday during a joint press
conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The memo,
which was leaked to the British press before Blair's bid for
re-election, suggests that Bush and Blair planned to attack
Iraq before the proposal was made public.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Passes Patriot Act
Reauthorization Act
In a closed session, the Senate Intelligence Committee passed
the Patriot Act Reauthorization Act. Along with making about
half of the provisions of the Act that are set to expire permanent,
the measure would also expand the FBI's authority to subpoena
records without a court order and track people's mail. The
measure still has to go through one more Senate Committee
before the entire Senate votes on the bill. Mitch Jeserich
has more from Washington.
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Coalition Pushes for AgJobs Bill
A push for immigration reform was heralded today when the
National Farmworker's Alliance and a bipartisan group of members
of Congress came out in support of new immigration legislation.
The AgJobs bill that may come up for a vote this session would
grant temporary and then permanent immigration status to agricultural
workers. Jenny Johnson has more from DC.
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Opposition Mounting Against NAFTA Superhighway
A new interstate known as the "NAFTA Superhighway"
would stretch from the Mexican border through the Midwest
and up to Canada. The highway would facilitate trade between
these countries. Still largely in the planning phases, I-69
has already generated wide controversy. In Boston, Helen Matthews
has more.
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High Schools Opposing Military Recruitment on Campus
May Face Federal Funding Cuts
With opposition to military recruitment on the rise, high
schools who take a stand against recruiters on campus find
themselves doubly challenged, not only by pro-military forces
around the country, but by the No Child Left Behind federal
law, which requires that public schools give military recruiters
the same access to high school students as college recruiters,
or lose federal funding. Garfield High School is one such
school in Seattle, caught in the middle of the growing conflict.
Martha Baskin has more.
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