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Today's Story:
Senator Byrd leads opposition
Activists Respond to the Vote
Interview with Barbara Lee
Interview with David Bonior
Creative Resistance to War
The next government in Iraq?
More Black Voices needed for Peace
Student Activism in Texas
Debate on veteran’s concerns
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Story: Senator Byrd
leads opposition
In what proved to be a futile attempt to slow the administration’s
rush towards war, US Senator Robert
Byrd of West Virginia debated strenuously on the floor
of the senate last night hoping to persuade his democractic
colleagues to oppose the resolution. His argument focused
on the constitutionality of the resolution.
Tape: Byrd
Story: With the Democrats holding a majority in the Senate,
there remained a possibility, albeit remote, that the Senate
could have defeated the Iraq war resolution. But 29 Democrats
voted in favor of war. Hillary Rodham Clinton was among them.
Tape: Clinton
Senator Joseph Biden
of Delaware argued that the resolution actually lessens the
change of war.
Tape: Biden
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Story: Activists Respond to the Vote
Some activists in the Nation’s Capital say they’re
disgusted with the outcome of this week’s vote but are
ready to keep up the fight.
Tape: Ryme Katkhouda, from Pacifica Station WPFW
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Story: Interview with Barbara Lee
Shortly after Congress voted to grant the use of force on
Thursday, we spoke with Representative Barbara
Lee. Lee, Democrat from Oakland, CA, lead the opposition
against the resolution, offering her own amendment.
Guest: Barbara Lee, Representative from California
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Story: Interview with David Bonior
We also spoke with Representative David
Bonior of Michigan for his reaction to the vote. Bonior
traveled to Iraq last month to see for himself the situation
and has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s
Iraq policy.
Guest: David Bonior, Representative from Michigan
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Story: Creative Resistance to War
Shannon, a volunteer producer at Pacifica station KPFT in
Houston caught up with Rhyzome collective member Beth during
an anti-war demonstration in Austin last weekend. They spoke
about creative resistance. Austin’s Revolutionary Anarchist
Marching Band Orgy plays in the background
Tape: KPFT sound montage
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Story: The next government in Iraq?
If the Bush administration completes its goal of regime change
in Iraq, what will replace Saddam Hussein. An article leaked
today to the New York Times outlines a detailed plan that
would install an American led military government in Iraq.
Guest: Chris Toensing, editor of the Middle
East Report
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Story: More Black Voices needed for Peace
The founder of Black
Voices for Peace, Damu
Smith is concerned that far more African Americans need
to become involved in the anti-war movement.
Guest: Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace
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Story: Student Activism in Texas
Students and an ad-hoc coalition of groups opposed to US
aggression against Iraq gathered together this week in a Rice
University campus chapel in Houston, Texas.
Tape: Report from KPFT
in Houston
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Story: Debate on veteran’s concerns
Some Gulf War veterans don’t want the nation to forget
what happened to them during the first Gulf crisis. A veterans
representative asks some tough questions of the Defense Department.
Tape: from KPFK host Jerry
Quickly and Producer Christine Blozdale
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