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Today's lead stories:
Coalition Says New Orleans Election Will Disenfranchise Black
Voters
Argentina Commemorates 30-Year Anniversary of Military Coup
Protests at Indian Embassies and Consulates for Bhopal Disaster
Survivors
Youth Continue to Protest in France Over New Labor Law
Labor Rights Activists Gather in Nicaragua
Colorado Participates in World TB Day
FSRN Headlines
Abbas Says Peace Talks are Possible
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thinks it will be possible
to hold peace talks with Israel even with the militant party
Hamas in control of the Palestinian Legislature. More from
Laila Al Hadad in Gaza.
Bolivia Calls for Return of Coastline from Chile
Bolivian President Evo Morales called today for the return
of a mineral-rich coastal territory lost to Chile in a 19th
century war, the source of a bitter grudge against the neighboring
country. Jorge Garreton reports from Santiago.
Massive Protest of Proposed Immigration Law
Protestors are flooding the streets of Phoenix. A march to
U.S. Senator John Kyl's office is aimed at protesting a congressional
proposal to make undocumented immigration a felony. In Los
Angeles, some 150 Huntington Park High School students are
marching in another protest of an immigration bill due before
congress next week.
Afghanistan Parliament Member Tours U.S.
A member of the Afghan Parliament, and survivor of numerous
assassination attempts for her outspokenness is touring the
U.S. She says the controversy over the death sentence given
to a man who converted from Islam to Christianity shows that
Islamic fundamentalism still holds sway in Afghanistan. Mitch
Jeserich reports.
ETA Ceasefire
The first permanent Ceasefire called by the militant Basque
separtist group ETA has come into effect. The truce began
at midnight local time amid cautious optimism across Spain
that it might spell the end of a 38-year campaign of terror
that has taken the lives of over 850 people. An opinion poll
released in Spain today suggested overwhelming support for
negotiations with ETA. Two previous ETA ceasefires collapsed
within months.
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Coalition Says New Orleans Election Will Disenfranchise
Black Voters (3:21)
A national coalition of groups says that New Orleans’
local elections, slated to take place at the end of April,
violate the Voting Rights Act. They say the election will
not only deliberately disenfranchise black voters, but will
set a dangerous precedent that will roll back landmark legislation
that gave each person a voice. Leigh Ann Caldwell reports
from Washington DC.
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Argentina Commemorates 30-Year Anniversary of Military
Coup (4:10)
Argentines commemorate today the 30-year anniversary of
the nation’s 1976 military coup and the brutal nightmare
of state terror that followed. Throughout the week, human
rights groups remembered the 30,000 people who were disappeared
with a series of rallies and cultural events. FSRN’s
Marie Trigona is in Buenos Aires, where people are recalling
the start of one of Argentina’s darkest chapters.
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Protests at Indian Embassies and Consulates for Bhopal
Disaster Survivors (2:08)
People are protesting at various Embassy and Consulates
of India throughout the US today, calling on the Indian government
to meet with dozens of survivors of the chemical gas leak
in 1984 that killed thousands of people in Bhopal India –
one of the worst industrial disasters ever. Darby Hickey reports
from Washington DC, where protestors marched on the Indian
embassy.
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Youth Continue to Protest in France Over New Labor
Law (4:10)
Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and professors
from all over France continue to demonstrate in Paris today
against the new employment law for the seventh week in a row.
Aimed to reduce the chronically high rate of unemployment
among the country's youth, the law, called the First Job Contract,
allows employers to fire workers under 26 of age within the
first two years of employment without any justification or
severance. Negotiations between representatives from France’s
trade unions and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin have
ended in failure today. FSRN’s Khaled Sid Mohand reports
from Paris.
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Labor Rights Activists Gather in Nicaragua (4:03)
Latin American labor rights experts met in Nicaragua this
week to examine labor rights, with the onset of free trade
agreements. Nan McCurdy has more from Nicaragua.
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Colorado Participates in World TB Day (2:38)
Today marks annual World TB Day, which provides an opportunity
for people all around the world to raise awareness about the
disease. Among infectious diseases, tuberculosis is the second
leading killer of adults in the world, particularly one the
continent of Africa, where TB has become the leading cause
of death among people with HIV. Maeve Conran reports from
Colorado on the worldwide and national threat of this disease.
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