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Today's lead stories:
Demonstration in Solidarity with Haiti and South Africa
Algerians Pass Peace Plan Despite Opposition from Human Rights
Groups
Day Laborers Highlight Contributions and Call for End to Immigrant
Bashing
Top-to-Bottom Revision of Endangered Species Act Passes in
House
A Look at New Orleans Police Conduct
Group Calls to Commute Death Sentence for a Kashmiri Man
FSRN Headlines
Judith Miller Testifies in front of Grand Jury
New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail
yesterday after getting the go ahead from the Vice President's
Chief of Staff, Lewis Libby to disregard their confidentiality
agreement. Gus Caravalho reports from Washington.
Scientists Say Global Warming Causes More Intense Hurricanes
Scientists today said climate change and the destruction of
coastal wetlands could mean the same types of disasters New
Orleans saw with Hurricane Katrina. Renee Feltz has more from
Houston.
Former White House Official Under Fire
Conservative Commentator William Bennett was criticized by
the White House today for saying that one way to reduce crime
would be to abort black babies. On his talk show "Morning
in America" Bennett made the comment in conversation
with a caller about abortion.
BENNETT: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could...
if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black
baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That
would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible
thing to do, but your crime rate would go down."
White House Spokesperson Scott Maclellan said Bennett's comments
were inappropriate, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid
demanded an apology. Bennett was Education Secretary for the
Reagan administration and Director of Drug Policy for Bush
Senior.
VAWA Goes to Senate
The Violence Against Women Act was set to expire today, but
lawmakers extended the bill to 2009. Leigh Ann Caldwell has
more.
West Bank Palestinians Go to the Polls, Again
Palestininans in villages across the West Bank went to the
polls yesterday in the third stage of municipal elections.
Minar Jibreen reports.
Bolivian Protesters Call for the Extradition of Goni
In Bolivia, Police violently dispersed protestors at the US
embassy calling for the extradition of former President Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada from the United States. The first of three
protests by family members of those killed during the demonstrations
to oust the former President seeks to try Sanchez de Lozada
for genocide. October marks two years since he fled office
to the United States.
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Demonstration in Solidarity with Haiti and South
Africa (3:29)
Today marks the anniversary of the 1991 coup d'etat that
first removed Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide from
office. DC was one of 33 cities around the world to participate
in the International Day of Solidarity with Haiti. People
in that city also acted in solidarity with South Africans,
who marched through Johnannesburg's business district, demanding
23 corporations pay reparations for apartheid-era profiteering.
Ingrid Drake has more on today’s demonstrations from
DC.
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Algerians Pass Peace Plan Despite Opposition from
Human Rights Groups (3:32)
As expected, the referendum peace plan proposed by Algerian
President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika has been approved by an overwhelming
97% of Algerian voters. Supporters of the measure say the
spirit of the charter is to end a 13-year-old civil war, which
left an estimated 200,000 people dead, more than 10,000 people
disappeared and roughly 100,000 people displaced. The plan’s
critic’s point out that The Charter for Peace and National
Reconciliation proposed by the Algerian president contains
provisions aimed at exonerating both security forces and armed
groups from accountability for grave human rights abuses.
Opposition party members and human rights groups denounced
the lack of public debate on the charter, while the Association
of the Mothers of Disappeared campaign against the charter
outside of the country. Khaled Sid Mohand met them in Paris,
where he also spoke with voters at the Algerian Consulate.
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Day Laborers Highlight Contributions and Call for
End to Immigrant Bashing (2:31)
In response to what they say is an increase in immigrant
bashing plaguing the country, the National Day Laborer Organizing
Network held a news conference in Los Angeles today to highlight
day labor contributions and to call for an end to racist attacks
against workers. From KPFK, FSRN’s Leilani Albano reports.
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Top-to-Bottom Revision of Endangered Species Act
Passes in House (3:41)
The US House voted in favor of HR 3824 yesterday, a top-to-bottom
revision of the landmark Endangered Species Act, which has
been in effect since 1973. The vote on the bill, sponsored
by California Representative Richard Pombo, was approved 229-113.
The measure, which enhances private property rights, now goes
to the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water.
Subcommittee Chair Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, is critical
of the bill, and is expected to delay hearings on it until
2006. Leigh Robartes takes a look at the various provisions
in the Pombo bill that will shape the fight in the Senate.
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A Look at New Orleans Police Conduct (1:59)
New Orleans Police Department leadership was shaken this
week, as the Police Superintendent resigned suddenly, and
the new acting Superintendent announced an investigation into
office misconduct in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. From
New Orleans, Matt Toups reports.
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Group Calls to Commute Death Sentence for a Kashmiri
Man (3:09)
While India is trying hard to get Indian citizen Sarabjit
Singh back from Pakistan, where he has been sentenced to death
on accusation of being an Indian Spy, activists from the Society
of the Prevention of Detainees and Prisoners Rights, are demanding
commuting the death sentence of a Kashmiri man, Mohamad Afzal
Guru, sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in the
Indian Parliament attack in 2001. The group launched its signature
campaign from Srinagar last week demanding the death sentence
be overturned. Shahnawaz Khan has more.
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