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Today's lead stories:
Tom Delay Indicted; Steps Down as House Republican Leader
House Committee Discusses UN Reforms
"Intelligent Design:" Christian Conservatives Attempt
to Set Public School Curriculum
Justice Department Petitioned to Lift Gag Order Related to
USA Patriot Act
Santa Cruz Bus Drivers on Strike
Change to Win Coalition Rallies in Oakland
Worries Over Liberia's Charles Taylor Possible Funding of
Presidential Candidates
FSRN Headlines
Representative Tom DeLay has been indicted. A grand jury
charged him along with two political associates for political
conspiracy. He spoke from his office in the Capitol: [Audio
Clip:] The House Majority Leader will step down from that
post, but will retain his Texas seat. As Ellen Ratner reports,
this is not the first time Tom Delay has run into legal trouble.
Israel has continued it's attacks and search for Palestinian
militants into it's fifth day knocking out power to thousands
of residents in Gaza. Manar Jibreen reports:
Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture has resigned amidst intensifying
protests by sugar cane workers. Shannon Young reports from
Oaxaca.
India's vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy
Agency has put the government in a awkward position coming
from both its opposition as well as its left wing allies.
Binu Alex reports from Ahmedabad.
Elite French troops this morning stormed a ship occupied
by workers protesting at the planned privatization of a state-owned
ferry company. The roughly 30 trade-unionists aboard could
face up to 20 years in jail. Demonstrators showed their support
of the workers at the southern French port of Marseilles.
Tony Cross reports from Paris.
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Tom Delay Indicted; Steps Down as House Republican
Leader (2:15)
House Republican leader Tom Delay of Texas has stepped down
from his leadership position today after being indicted by
a Texas Grand Jury for conspiring to circumvent Texas election
laws. Mitch Jeserich has more.
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House Committee Discusses UN Reforms (2:53)
The House Committee on International Relations held a meeting
today on the outcome of the United Nations' high level event
held two weeks ago in connection to UN reform. The US ambassador
to the United Nations, John Bolton, discussed the US agenda
in the reform. Anastasia Gnezditskaia reports from Capitol
Hill.
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"Intelligent Design:" Christian Conservatives
Attempt to Set Public School Curriculum (3:18)
A trial is underway in a Pennsylvania Federal Court on the
debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools. A
religious theory dubbed "intelligent design" contends
that life is best explained not by evolution, but by an intelligent
force. Intelligent design disagrees with the core of evolutionary
theory, which is the scientifically-based curriculum taught
in most public schools. A public high school in Dover, Pennsylvania,
however, is apparently the first in the nation to require
students be informed about intelligent design as part of the
curriculum. Dover's policy mandates school administrators
read a statement before biology class that says evolutionary
theory is not fact, and refers students to an intelligent
design text to obtain more information. Eight families have
sued the school district, saying the policy violates the separation
between church and state and that the district's policy promotes
a Biblical view of creation. We're joined on the line by Wesley
Elsberry, with the National Center for Science Education.
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Justice Department Petitioned to Lift Gag Order Related
to USA Patriot Act (2:11)
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in August
on behalf of a Connecticut librarian organization, challenging
a provision of the USA Patriot Act that forces public and
private institutions to give information about patrons, including
borrowed materials and Internet use. Civil libertarians, members
of congress, and librarians petitioned the Justice Department
today to lift a gag order silencing citizens who have received
demands for personal records under the Patriot Act. Selina
Musuta reports from Washington, DC.
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Santa Cruz Bus Drivers on Strike (2:00)
Pickets are up at 6 locations around Santa Cruz County after
145 Metro Bus drivers, represented by United Transportation
Union Local 23, went on strike Tuesday. FSRN's Vinny Lombardo
has the details.
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Change to Win Coalition Rallies in Oakland
(2:17)
Members of the new Change to Win Coalition, made up of unions
that split from the AFL-CIO, held a rally outside an engineering
firm in downtown Oakland to coincide with a day-long founding
convention taking place in St. Louis on Tuesday. Grace Turner
reports.
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Worries Over Liberia's Charles Taylor Possible Funding
of Presidential Candidates (4:30)
As the West African nation of Liberia prepares for its first
post-civil-war presidential elections on October 11, sustained
peace is a major campaign issue. Yet, throughout the region,
the continued liberty of former Liberian president and alleged
war criminal Charles Taylor remains a cause of considerable
anxiety. Rupert Cook reports from Sierra Leone.
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