Pacifica’s Peace Watch
Friday October 18, 2002
Today's Stories:
United Nations update
Journalist Jeremy Scahill reports from
Baghdad
Veterans protest in front of White
House
Jennifer Harbury speech
Helen Caldicott interview
Commentary by radio host Terry Kester
Spoken word response to war from “Thirteen
of Nazareth”
The audio of today's show is posted at http://www.radio4all.net/
Story: United Nations update
In an effort to end a five-week impasse among the permanent
members of the council, the United States, supported by Britain,
dropped a demand that a resolution explicitly authorize military
force against Iraq. UN analyst Susan Wood says no formal resolution
has been presented so the exact wording is not known.
Tape: Susan Wood
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Story: Journalist Jeremy Scahill reports from Baghdad
As the US plots regime change in Iraq, the people of Iraq
have declared Saddam Hussein the winner of the presidential
election Wednesday with 100 percent of the votes in. Jeremy
Scahill is a freelance reporter in Iraq. We spoke with him
earlier today from his location in Baghdad.
Tape: interview with Jeremy Scahill
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Story: Veterans protest in front of White House
A coalition of
veterans from World War II, the Korean War and the Gulf
War picketed the White House this week. They came to urge
the President to work with the United Nations and not wage
unilateral war, and to speak of their personal memories of
the horrors of war as reasons to mandate that peace prevails.
Tape: report from WPFW’s Ryme Khathouda.
MUSIC BREAK
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Story: Jennifer Harbury speech
International human rights activist and immigration attorney
Jennifer
Harbury spoke in Austin this week at a school of the Americas
Watch event where she described the implications of what it
means for the United States to consider “regime change,”
given the long history of overthrowing governments in Latin
America.
Tape: Jennifer Harbury speech from KPFT
radio in Houston
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Story: Helen Caldicott interview
One of the Bush administration’s main justification
for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq is the claim that Iraq is
building nuclear weapons. But some in the peace movement are
more concerned about the US using nuclear weapons than Iraq.
Recently, WPKN “Between the Lines” producer Melinda
Tuhus spoke with Dr.
Helen Caldicott. Caldicott is a renowned anti-nuclear
activist, the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility
and a Noble Peace Prize nominee. She spoke of the possible
use of nuclear weapons by the US in an attack on Iraq.
Tape: Dr. Helen Caldicott
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Story: Commentary by radio host Terry Kester
In this era when the President and many prominent politicians
are calling for war with Iraq, radio host Terry Kester from
WPFW here in Washington, DC reminds us to give peace a chance…
Tape: Terry Kester commentary
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Story: Spoken word response to war from “Thirteen
of Nazareth”
Artists, writers and poets are among the most sensitive
in our society, and it’s critical times like these that
leave impressions upon the soul. The 9-11 attack on the World
Trade Centers and the Pentagon, and words of aggression from
the Oval Office against Iraq inspired this work from a young‘spoken-word’
artist named ‘13
of Nazareth’…
Tape: ‘13 of Nazareth’ performing live in the
studios of Pacifica’s WPFW.
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