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Today's lead stories:
Tariq Ali On Recent Developments re: London Bombing
Calls For Iraqi Federalism
Tribal Lands And Mining
Hearing Today Of Activists Arrested For Aiding Border Crossings
Moazzam Begg Interview Part Two
CAFTA Protest
FSRN Headlines
People rallied outside the Los Angeles Police Department
against the killing of a baby, caught in the gunfire between
the police and her father. Sister Charlene Muhammed has more
from KPFK in LA.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas will travel to Gaza
to meet with leaders of the Islamic Jihad to try and save
peace talks. The quickly arranged meeting is planned two days
after a suicide attack in Natanya killed 5 Israelis and injured
dozens. After which, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon arrested
dozens and vowed to hunt down members of the Islamic Jihad
movement. It is the first bomb attack in nearly five months,
since the signing of the peace agreement. A series of retaliation
attacks have occurred on both sides, the latest being the
killing of an Islamic Jihad member and an Israeli woman. The
Islamic Jihad threatened and end to the peace deal if Israel
did not stop the aggression.
Thailand says it will offer low cost anti-retrioviral drugs
to more than half a million of it's citizens who are living
with HIV/ AIDS. FSRN's Doualy Xaykaothao has more from Bangkok.
Thousands of Kenyans are fleeing after a massacre in the
Northern town of Turbi. Rupert Cook has more.
The Zapatistas have lifted their red alert. The Caracoles
and Good Government Juntas will begin work and civil programs
again. They announced through a communique that they will
make some internal changes They will form Security Committees
which will inform all on the needs of the indigenous groups,
programs being proposed, and problems that arise. They will
also create an Information Committee which will share the
history and mission of the Zapatistas.
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TARIQ ALI ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS RE: LONDON BOMBING
(3:28)
Police in London have released the names of 2 suspected
suicide bombers in last week’s London transit attacks.
It’s been one week since the subway and double-decker
bus bombings, which left at least 53 people dead, and hundreds
about wounded. In that time, hate crimes throughout the UK
have been on the rise, so far, one British Muslim, Kamal Raza,
was beaten to death by a group of extremists in the North
of Britain. Susie Weissman, of KPFK’s Beneath the Surface,
recently spoke with Tariq Ali, author of Clash of Fundamentalisms
and Bush in Babylon, about the significance of insurgent attacks
in the UK, and the difference in the British government’s
reactions then and now.
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Calls for Iraqi Federalism (4:01)
40 representatives of the 275-member Iraqi Parliament have
issued demands for an initiative that would grant autonomy
for the southern region of the country. In an effort to change
Iraq’s political landscape, secular groups are proposing
a regional vote in October. The initiative, which is timed
to match a national referendum on the constitution, would
begin to create a federalist state system in a country that
is still working on establishing basic infrastructure and
security. Advocates of the plan say that the south should
have control over how its oil wealth and other income should
be distributed. From KPFA in Berkeley, Eliana Kaya reports.
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TRIBAL LANDS AND MINING (3:53)
A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to notify
Native Americans, whose land the government holds in trust,
that the government's information may not be credible. The
order comes in response to a class action lawsuit that accuses
the government of auctioning off Native American lands to
the coal, timber and mining industries for a price less than
the market value. The federal judge wrote in his opinion that
the Interior Department continues to treat Native Americans
as if they were less than deserving of the respect that should
be afforded to everyone. Meanwhile, numerous Native American
leaders are converging in Washington DC, calling on the government
to fulfill treaties that are still being ignored. From Capitol
Hill, Mitch Jeserich reports.
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HEARING TODAY OF ACTIVISTS ARRESTED FOR AIDING BORDER
CROSSINGS (1:01)
In the state of Michoacan in Mexico, 400 workers looking
to cross the border were defrauded when a sham organization
called the Migrant Agriculture Worker’s Union, took
the equivalent of 500-U-S-Dollars in exchange for what the
workers thought would be a guaranteed job and a visa to work
in the United States. On Sunday morning, the group, that had
advertised their fraudulent services through radio and television
ads, took off with the worker’s money and passports,
leaving them behind. Mexican migrant laborers continue to
cross the border in search of work despite the obstacles that
they face in the journey. About 300 migrants die crossing
the border each year – most of them from severe dehydration.
This year alone, over 200 migrants have died so far.
Meanwhile, in Arizona, just south of Tucson, 2 humanitarian
aid workers were arrested this past weekend by Border Patrol
for medically assisting 3 migrants they found crossing the
US/Mexico border near Tucson, Arizona. Members of the group
NO More Deaths say they were performing a legal medical evacuation
of ill migrants. The Border Patrol says the volunteers committed
federal crimes, but are now offering the aid workers a plea
deal. Human rights activists say the plea deal is an indication
that the Border Patrol acted inappropriately. Amanda Shauger
has this story from Tucson.
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MOAZZAM BEGG INTERVIEW PART TWO (1:12)
As we hear more each day about routine torture practices
employed at Guantanamo Bay, we bring you the voice of someone
who has lived through it: former detainee Moazzam Begg whose
voice has only been heard once before in the United States.
Begg was kidnapped and detained in Pakistan in 2001 and was
imprisoned without charge or trial. He spent three years as
a prisoner, first at Bagram Air Base and then at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba In the second part of an exclusive interview from
Wake Up Call, WBAI's morning program in New York City, Begg
tells Deepa Fernandes and Pratap Chatterjee the murder he
witnessed at Bagram in Afghanistan. (AUDIO) That was the voice
of Moazzam Begg who was released in January of this year after
three years as a prisoner at Bagram prison in Afghanistan
and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If you want to hear more of this
exclusive interview conducted by Deepa Fernandes and Pratap
Chatterjee for WBAI New York's Wake Up Call, you can visit
their website at www.wakeupcallradio.org
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CAFTA PROTEST (2:20)
A year after signing the implementing legislation of a U.S.
free trade agreement with Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the White
House sent CAFTA to Congress and it passed in the US Senate
54-45 on June 30th. For CAFTA to be enacted or defeated, it
must now be voted on in the House between July 12 and 29th.
And workers, legislators, environmental, and labor groups
from both the United States and Latin America are mobilizing
in opposition during this countdown. Ryme Katkhouda of WBIX
has more from Washington DC.
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