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Today's lead stories:
Investigators Try to Find Clues Surrounding West Bengal Train
Bombing
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Declares Himself New and Legitimate
President
Oaxaca’s APPO Rebuild Encampment
Department of Defense Gathered Intelligence on Antiwar Organizing
Immigrant Janitors Declare Labor Victory in the South
Texas’s 23rd District Race Still Undecided
Supreme Court to Take on Historic Cases
FSRN Headlines
ANTI-SYRIAN POLITICIAN ASSASSINATED IN LEBANON
Pierre Gemayel, a staunchly anti-Syrian politician from one
of Lebanon's most prominent Christian families was assassinated
today. Local sources say he was shot at point blank range
by a lone gunmen. His killing was the fifth assassination
of an anti-Syrian politician in the last two years. Jackson
Allers has more from Beirut.
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR GETS DAY IN COURT
A US Serviceman who went AWOL after refusing to return for
a second tour in Iraq is getting his day in court today. Before
going AWOL, army medic Augustin Aguayo applied for conscientious
objector status, but was denied.
VOTERS IN FLORIDA SUE SAYING THEY'RE VOTES WEREN'T COUNTED
Voters from Sarasota, Florida went to court today demanding
a re-vote in Florida ’s 13th congressional district.
The suit alleges that thousands of citizens were disenfranchised
in the race to replace Republican Congresswoman Katherine
Harris. Mitch Perry reports from Tampa:
COLOMBIA ARRESTS VENEZUELAN REPORTER
Colombian security officials arrested a journalist for the
progressive news channel Telesur, as he was arriving in Colombia
on a flight from Venezuela. Greg Wilpert reports from Caracas.
ROBERT ALTMAN DEAD AT 81
And finally, legendary film-maker Robert Altman has died.
He was 81 years old. A five-time Academy Award nominee for
best director, most recently for 2001's Gosford Park, Altman
finally won a lifetime achievement Oscar in 2006. Altman is
perhaps best known for the 1969 film MASH. The film was a
black comedy about a medical unit in the Korean War, but it
tapped into a groundswell of opposition to the war in Vietnam
and became a mammoth hit. It also established the director's
genius for loose-limbed narratives and multi-tracked sound
recording; a kind of controlled chaos that caught the mood
of a culture in flux. … Robert Altman, in a 1990 interview
with the BBC.
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Investigators Try to Find Clues Surrounding West
Bengal Train Bombing (2:05)
Forensic experts and police made futile attempts in the
eastern Indian state of West Bengal to find clues to yesterday's
blasts in a train compartment. Meanwhile, New Delhi stepped
up security on its rail network and along its border with
Bangladesh. FSRN’s Binu Alex has more.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Declares Himself New
and Legitimate President (reader)
More than 100,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s
main square yesterday, as former presidential candidate Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, declared himself the country’s
new and legitimate president in a symbolic ceremony. AMLO
has contested Mexico’s Federal Electoral Commission’s
decision to not order a vote-by-vote count. The commission
declared PAN candidate Felipe Calderon president, but AMLO
says he will run a parallel presidency.
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Oaxaca’s APPO Rebuild Encampment (2:40)
Members of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca,
or APPO, are rebuilding their protest encampment after men
in plainclothes set fire to it late last night. The destruction
of the encampment on the pathway of the Santo Domingo church
came after a three hour street battle yesterday afternoon
in the heart of downtown’s historic district. Shannon
Young reports from Oaxaca City.
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Department of Defense Gathered Intelligence on Antiwar
Organizing (4:15)
A newly established Defense Department monitoring operation
known as the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell has been created
to scrutinize Army soldier’s official and unofficial
blogs. The operation says it scans the internet for any information
posted by soldiers that may compromise security, and they
now mandate that soldiers register any internet postings with
their commanding officers. Meanwhile, intelligence on antiwar
planning meetings, including nonviolence trainings, organized
at libraries, churches and college campuses has been tracked
in an antiterrorist database used by the Department of Defense.
Now, the head of the program admits the intelligence should
not have been gathered to begin with, and will strictly focus
on actual terrorist threats. Host Aura Bogado speaks with
Fernando Suarez del Solar, the founder of the Guerrero Azteca
Project, who is also the subject of a new film titled “Jesus,
A Soldier without a Country”, premiering at the Rio
de Janeiro Film this week.
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Immigrant Janitors Declare Labor Victory in the South
(2:45)
After a five week strike, janitors in Houston, Texas secured
a union contract. FSRN’s Rachel Clarke chronicles what
the mostly immigrant workers, some of whom are undocumented,
are calling a labor victory in the south.
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Texas’s 23rd District Race Still Undecided
(4:00)
While a lot of attention has been focused on the Democrats
taking over Congress, several races around the country are
still undecided. One of those includes Texas' 23rd district,
which spans from San Antonio to the border with Mexico in
the southwestern part of the state. Charles Davis reports.
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Supreme Court to Take on Historic Cases
(3:45)
The U.S. Supreme Court will tackle several landmark cases
next week: for the first time in the court's history, it will
address what the federal government should do about global
warming; it will also hear arguments on whether the current
threshold for granting a patent is too low. From Washington
D.C., FSRN’s Yanmei Xie takes a look at these potentially
ground-breaking cases.
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