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Today's lead stories:
EZLN Launches the Other Campaign
NRA Begins Campaign to Allow Workers to Bring Guns to Work
Thousands Rally in Hawaii Over Hawaiian Only School Ruling
Mountain Justice Summer Campaign in Tennessee
Anniversary of Voting Rights Act
Valley Free Radio on the Air After 2005 Grass Roots Radio
Conference
FSRN Headlines
The UN has confirmed that the Iran has broken the seals at
Isfahan, its largest nuclear plant. The International Atomic
Energy Agency, the global nuclear watchdogs, in a statement
said, “that Iran today started to feed uranium ore concentrate
into the first part of the process line at the uranium conversion
facility.” The statement continue to say that ``It should
be noted that the sealed parts of the process line remain
intact.'' Iran rejected an offer made by three negotiating
members of the European Union last week. Iran maintains that
their nuclear production is for peaceful purposes. The IAEA
said it has installed cameras at Isfahan tomonitor Iran's
renewed activities at the plant.
A report places blame on government officials for violence
that killed 3,000 members of the Sikh religion in India more
than 20 years ago. FSRN’s Binu Alex has more from Amehdabad.
A massive nation wide strike has halted gold mining in South
Africa. Rachel Georgia has more from Capetown.
Venezuela has severed ties with the United States’
federal Drug Enforcement Agency, which conducts anti-drug
operations in that country. Greg Wilpert has more from Caracas.
President Bush signed a massive energy bill. The bill, Bush
said will do nothing to reduce gas prices overnight, but is
good for the nation in the long run. During the signing ceremony
Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, Bush said the energy
legislation will help the country in many ways.
(Audio of Bush)
The bill provides 14.5 billion dollars in tax incentives
to corporate energy companies, including renewable energy
and building new nuclear power plants. It is the first overhaul
of the national energy plan in over a decade.
Anti-terrorism measures are targeted at low-income Americans.
Pacifica’s Verna Avery Brown has more.
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EZLN Launches the Other Campaign
The Zapatista National Liberation Army in Chiapas, celebrates
the second anniversary since the formation of the Councils
of Good Governments and the creation of the Zapatista Caracoles-
cultural centers of resistance. This year's celebration marks
the re-appearance of the Zapatista's poetic spokesman Subcomandante
Marcos, and the launching of what has been dubbed the "Other
Campaign," a plan to re-consolidate and strengthen the
anti-capitalist movement. Tim Russo brings us more from rebel
territory in Chiapas.
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NRA Begins Campaign to Allow Workers to Bring Guns
to Work
The National Rifle Association has begun a national campaign
against corporations who prohibit employees to keep guns in
their cars that are parked in the company's parking lot. The
campaign started in Oklahoma against the gas company Conoco
Phillips in response to the company's firing of a dozen employees
for bringing guns to work. Conoco Phillips has filed a lawsuit
in a federal court against a new Oklahoma law that does allow
employees to keep firearms in their cars. Mitch Jeserich has
more.
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Thousands Rally in Hawaii Over Hawaiian Only School
Ruling
An estimated 15,000 Hawaiians gathered on Saturday to rally
and march in opposition to the 9th Circuit Court ruling that
struck down the Kamehameha Schools Hawaiian only admissions
policy. The trust that supports the school comes from a Hawaiian
Princess who willed in the 1880s that her estate be used for
the purpose of educating Hawaiians. But because of this and
other rulings that are viewed by Hawaiians as racist attacks
on the few assets they have, Hawaiians are asking serious
questions about whether or not the US system is capable of
ever providing Hawaiians with justice. The timing of this
ruling also raises concerns about the Native Hawaiian Government
Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka Bill, which will
be voted on by Congress next month. In Honolulu, Anne Keala
Kelly has more.
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Mountain Justice Summer Campaign in Tennessee
Local residents in Knoxville, Tennessee, are organizing
a protest at the National Coal Company head quarters tomorrow,
challenging the company's environmentally destructive coal
mining practices. This protest will kick off the Tennessee
section of the Mountain Justice Summer campaign -a campaign
that has been organizing throughout the Appalachian Mountains
since May. Jenka Soderberg reports.
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Anniversary of Voting Rights Act
Thousands rallied in Atlanta over the weekend to mark the
40th anniversary of the voting rights act, a package of laws
created to enforce the 15th amendment to the constitution
and the right of all US citizens to vote. Many consider the
act to be the most effective civil rights law in US history,
but as FSRN's Catherine Komp reports, voter discrimination
still continues.
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Valley Free Radio on the Air After 2005 Grass Roots
Radio Conference
And, in western Massachusetts this past weekend, 400 media
activists and independent journalists converged for the Grassroots
Radio Conferenceand Barn-raising in Florence, outside of Northampton.
This year's 10th annual conference was not just the usual
variety of workshops about media democracy, but a collaboration
with Prometheus Radio Project to launch recently licensed
Low power FM station Valley Free Radio, 103.3. FSRN's Monica
Lopez was at the event and brings us this collage.
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