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Today's lead stories:
Concern Over Katrina Reconstruction Bids
Hurricane Rita Raised Questions About Emergency Preparedness
Dozens Hospitalized and At Least 7 Dead from Bird Flu in Indonesia
Violence Erupts in Gaza as Likkud Party Attempts to Outs Ariel
Sharon
A Look at Arab-American Contributions to the Anti-War Movement
The March in Hyde Park
Thousands Gather in San Francisco
FSRN Headlines
The IRA has rid itself of all weapons international monitors
say. 2 months after they said they would do so. [AUDIO CUT:]
The IRA has used it's weapons to fight the British rule in
Northern Ireland. But many are skeptical of the IRA's move.
They say the real test will if and how they confront diplomatic
relations in the political process in the coming months.
In a high profile trial against several people accused of
participating in the September 11th attacks in New York, the
Spanish Hight Court sentenced 18 people to prison who are
accused of association with Al Qaeda. Maria Carrion reports:
Soldiers deployed to protect a Chevron oil installation in
Nigeria’s Niger Delta region have attacked local villagers.
Human rights groups have in the past accused Chevron of using
the military to intimidate local people. Sam Olukoya reports
from Lagos.
University students, unions and nationalists formed protests
as anger is felt in Puerto Rico over the killing of Puerto
Rican nationalist Filiberto Ojedo Rios who was gunned down
on Saturday by the FBI. The FBI said they were trying to arrest
him for a 1983 bank robbery in Connecticut for which he was
convicted in absentia in 1992 and wanted by federal officials
ever since. Jorge Farinacci was a friend of Ojedo Rios.
[AUDIO CUT:] Ojedo Rios was leader of Puerto Rico's Boricua
Popular Army, who sought independence from the US. His funeral
will be held tomorrow, 100,000 people are expected to attend.
A leader of one of South Africa's trade union's called President
Mgebe a 'denialist' of that country's HIV/AIDS problem. Na'eem
Jeenah has more from Johannesburg.
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Concern Over Katrina Reconstruction Bids
(3:10)
Citing government records, the New York Times, is reporting
that more than 80% of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to clean
up after Hurricane Katrina were awarded without bidding or
with limited competition, leading auditors and government
officials to be weary of possible fraud in Hurricane Katrina
contracts. Testimony over private contract fraud, healthcare
for Katrina survivors, and ways of paying for Hurricane Katrina
emergency and reconstruction relief projects will be some
of the issues Capitol Hill will have to contend with. FSRN's
Selina Musuta has more
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Hurricane Rita Raised Questions About Emergency Preparedness
(4:10)
Hurricane Rita, once a category five storm headed straight
for Houston, turned into the biggest non-news story of the
week when it weakened to a category three and landed in a
less populated area 100 miles from Houston. But the emergency
response in places it did hit raises questions about whether
the lessons of Hurricane Katrina have been learned. When FSRN's
Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Dolores M. Bernal toured the hard-hit
refinery city of Port Arthur, Texas, emergency supplies were
slow to arrive, there was no way for people who had weathered
the storm to leave town, and no way for those who had evacuated
to get back in.
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Dozens Hospitalized and At Least 7 Dead from Bird
Flu in Indonesia (2:07)
In Indonesia, over 30 people are hospitalized in intensive
care, and so far, at least 6 have died from Bird Flu. The
country announced "an extraordinary situation" on
the virus last week. The Bird Flu killed 65 people last year,
and the World Health Organization says the virus has now reached
it's third step as an epidemic, spreading from birds to human
being. The last step, which normally occurs in about three
months, would be a pandemic, where the virus would be spread
among human beings, and could affect 100 million lives of
South East Asia. With Eric Klein reading, FSRN's Meggy Margiyono
has more from Jakarta.
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Violence Erupts in Gaza as Likkud Party Attempts
to Outs Ariel Sharon (2:51)
Just two weeks after Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza,
violence has resumed. Palestinian militants fired a barrage
of rockets from Gaza into Israel over the weekend and Israel
carried out a series of air strikes, killing six militants.
Israeli troops also arrested some 300 Palestinians in a sweep
in the West Bank. The escalation comes as Israel's Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon faces a challenge inside his own party - where
opponents of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza are seeking to
hold early primaries so that they can oust Sharon as leader.
Irris Makler has more.
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A Look at Arab-American Contributions to the Anti-War
Movement (2:37)
Hundreds of thousand of protestors converged on the US National
Mall in Washington DC for a weekend of rallies and events,
protesting the Bush administration, war and corporate-led
budgetary priorities. They strategized, chanted, sang and
- of the first time since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings,
marched past the White House. Dozens of people, including
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq,
were arrested today in a protest outside the White House for
refusing to move after sitting down outside the White House
sidewalk. DC Radio Co-op's Ryme Katkhouda looks at the role
of Arab Americans in the anti-war movement.
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The March in Hyde Park (2:16)
Thousand of people throughout Britain also participated
in Saturday's demonstrations all across. Naomi Fowler was
at the demonstration in Hyde Park, and brings us this report.
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Thousands Gather in San Francisco (1:32)
Tens of thousands of people marched in San Francisco on
Saturday. Eric Klein spoke with a representative from a large
and lively contingent there on the street. [AUDIO CUT] That
was Joshua Castro of BAYAN - a Philippines-based peace and
justice movement. He spoke with FSRN'S Eric Klein at this
weekend's anti-war march in San Francisco.
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