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Today's lead stories:
Peru's New Prime Minister
Immigrant Rights Groups Outraged at New Deportation Techniques
Contamination of Native Corn in Mexico
Groups Meet in Chiapas for the Other Campaign
Alarming Report on Witness Abuse
A Community Battles with Gentrification in Washington DC
FSRN Headlines
The first forced evacuations amidst escalating tensions between
Israeli police and settlers have begun as the deadline of
midnight tonight to clear Gaza settlements approaches. Meanwhile,
Israeli officials closed off Palestinian villages adjacent
to the settlements for security purposes. Laila El-Haddad
has more from Gaza.
Family members lined up today to identify the bodies of 31
inmates killed in riots that erupted across 5 prisons in Guatemala.
Jill Replogle reports.
Some residents near President Bush's ranch have asked the
city council to ban gatherings and protests because of over
crowdedness due to the numbers of people who have joined Cindy
Sheehan. And as Katie Heimes report, a resident has destroyed
the crosses representing fallen soldiers.
A vote today could cut services at a hospital in LA that
serves many low income residents. The residents say the services
are valuable but many complain of shoddy hospital care. Christine
Blowsdale has more from KPFK in LA.
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Peru's New Prime Minister
Peru has a Prime Minister. Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, who's
the country's former Finance Minister and an ex-World Bank
and International Monetary Fund official has replaced Carlos
Ferrero. Ferrero reigned last week when President Alejandro
Toledo appointed a new foreign minister who is a proponent
of expanding land for coca cultivation in Peru. As mandated
by law, Toledo's entire cabinet resigned after Ferrera left
his post, and in about one week, Toledo's public support dropped
from 16-to-8-percent - the lowest of his tenure. Joining us
to talk about the latest developments in Peru is Larry Birns,
Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
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Immigrant Rights Groups Outraged at New Deportation
Techniques
Immigrant rights activists are alarmed at recent tactics
by immigration authorities in the arrest of undocumented immigrants
across the country. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency, also known as ICE, conducted a fake OSHA meeting last
month about workplace hazards in order to detain about 50
undocumented workers in North Carolina. And, in raiding a
poultry plant in Arkansas, that lead to the arrest 119 undocumented
workers, ICE left over 30 worker's children stranded in a
day car center. Immigrant rights activists say it's urgent
that Congress pass some type of immigration reform this fall
that includes provisions to address the dire situation that
most undocumented immigrants live in under in the United States.
Mitch Jeserich reports.
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Contamination of Native Corn in Mexico
An article published recently in The Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, has received a significant amount
of international press attention in the past week. The journal's
article tells of an apparent absence of detectable genetically-modified
material in native corn in an area where genetic contamination
had previously been found. In Oaxaca, Shannon Young gathered
local reaction to the study.
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Groups Meet in Chiapas for the Other Campaign
In Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberation Army held
the second and perhaps most important in a series of meetings
in rebel territory. Representatives from 51 different indigenous
organizations and nations from around Mexico converged in
rebel territory to discuss, criticize and make proposals regarding
the Zapatista's Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle.
Subcomandante Marcos was present with astute ears and facilitating
the meeting. He announced that the Zapatistas will send a
delegation to make contact and work with popular organizations,
indigenous groups and others throughout Mexico as a part of
what's called the "Other Campaign". Luz Ruiz and
Tim Russo have more from Chiapas.
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Alarming Report on Witness Abuse
Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union
recently published a report called 'Witness to Abuse",
which claims that the Bush administration has misused a law
to detain scores of Muslim men living in the United States
without charge on baseless accusations of terrorist links
since the September 11 attacks. Administration officials defended
the detentions by pointing out that judges approved material
witness warrants. The report details how the Justice Department
relied on false, flimsy or irrelevant evidence to secure arrest
warrants for the men and to persuade courts that they were
flight risks who had to be incarcerated. It also documents
the long-term effects of the Justice Department's material
witness policy on witnesses and their families. Danuta Szafraniec
reports from New York.
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A Community Battles with Gentrification in Washington
DC
The US Census recently released data showing the number
of people of color has grown in suburbs, while the population
of affluent people of European descent has increased in the
inner cities. The Census notes these trends of gentrification
are even more dramatic in Metropolitan Washington, DC. Ingrid
Drake from the DC Radio Co-op reports on how demographic changes
are impacting how communities identify and solve their problems.
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