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Today's lead stories:
Calls for Philippine President to Step Down
Ethnic Communities Fear Targeting by London Authorities
Congress Paves Way for Energy Bill
Sunnis Return to Negotiate on Iraqi Draft Constitution
Launch of Latin America's TeleSUR
FSRN Headlines
Egyptian police are now searching for six Pakistanis in connection
with Saturday’s bombing of the Sharm Al Sheikh resort
in the Sinai peninsula. The explosion killed 88 people, including
17 foreigners. Paul Schemm reports from Cairo.
The leaders of two of the AFL-CIO's largest unions, the Teamsters
and the Service Employees, have officially announced that
they are leaving the labor federation. Other unions that have
joined the dissident "Change to Win" Coalition may
follow suit later this week during the AFL's 50th anniversary
convention in Chicago. Chris Geovanis reports.
Tea workers in India are close to reaching a compromise in
a massive tea strike. They have agreed on their most pertinent
issue - a pay raise. Binu Alex has more from Ahmedebad.
Police in Indian Administered Kashmir detained at least 20
protesters on Monday as hundreds of angry demonstrations took
place for the second day against the killing of three innocent
teenagers on Saturday night by the Indian troops. Shahnawaz
Khan has more from Srinagar Kashmir.
Kofi Annan announced that he will visit the destroyed villages
in Zimbabwe. He says Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe invited
him to visit. The invitation comes after a U.N. report found
that the demolition project violated international law, a
report Mugabe dismisses. More than 700,000 people have lost
their homes in the destruction of slums, know as Operation
Murambatsvina, or Operation Drive Out Rubbish.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is listed in the leadership
directory of the conservative legal association, the Federalist
Society. In 1997 to 1998, he is listed as a member of the
steering committee. He has declined to comment and the White
House denies his affiliation. Alfred Roth, President of the
Institute for Democracy Studies in New York says that the
Senate should investigate his role duing his nomination process.
(Audio Clip of Roth)
The Federalist Society was created in 1983 in opposition
to the left leaning teachings in law schools. They have opposed
issues such as affirmative action and the basic principles
of habeas corpus.
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Calls for Philippine President to Step Down
(2:52)
About 20,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Manila
today, demanding the immediate removal of Philippine President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo- the latest in a wave of demonstrations
against her for the past few weeks. In a nearly one-hour long
speech, Arroyo called for an overhaul of the country's political
system to ease a crisis sparked by vote-rigging allegations
against her. Meanwhile, in Congress, formal impeachment proceedings
against Arroyo may take longer than expected, as the opposition
fell short of the votes needed in the House to impeach her.
In Manila, Girlie Linao reports.
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Ethnic Communities Fear Targeting by London Authorities
(2:52)
London police are defending their "shoot to kill"
policy following Friday's fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian
man on London's transit network. The killing has raised concerns
about police procedures in the hunt for suspected suicide
bombers, and increased fears that ethnic communities may become
the target of police intimidation or harassment. FSRN's Helen
Kelly reports.
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Congress Paves Way for Energy Bill (3:45)
On Capitol Hill, Senate and House negotiators agreed to
strip the controversial MTBE liability protection out of the
Energy Bill, thus clearing the way for a full Congressional
vote on a bill to transform the nation's energy policy, that
has been continually blocked for the past 5 years. In previous
years, the energy bill was blocked, in part, to the MTBE provision
that would shield manufacturers of the gasoline additive from
lawsuits, as MTBE has contaminated fresh water reserves throughout
the country. The Energy Bill would still spur the construction
of new nuclear power plants and further deregulate the energy
industry while offering the industry billions of dollars in
subsidies. Today, Native American activists went to Capitol
Hill to urge Senate Democrats to block the bill once again,
saying that their reservations are being targeted to dump
the radio active waste from the nuclear power plants.
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Sunnis Return to Negotiate on Iraqi Draft Constitution
(3:47)
15 Sunni members of Iraq's constitution committee said today
that they will return to the bargaining table to finish their
work on the draft constitution. Sunnis pulled out of negotiations
last week due to security concerns, after one of their members
was assassinated. David Enders interviews Humam Hamoudi, the
head of Iraq's constitution committee.
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Launch of Latin America's TeleSUR (4:01)
This weekend saw the launch of a historic television collaboration
in the Americas. The new network, TeleSUR, has been in the
works for six years and is a collaboration of several Caribbean,
Central and South American nations; Venezuela, Argentina,
Cuba and Uruguay, put up the money to fund what is touted
to be the al-Jazeera of the south. The US government, meanwhile,
has sought permission from Congress to jam TeleSUR's signals
with propaganda-style programming. However, in TeleSUR's main
hub, Caracas, US threats were brushed off as celebrations
of this new network took place yesterday. Pacifica´s
Deepa Fernandes and Christopher Sprinkle were there and bring
us this montage of TELESUR.
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