Pacifica's Peace Watch
Friday. Oct. 25, 2002
Today's Stories:
October 26 anti-war demonstrations
University of Texas students vote against
the war
Veteran student activist Tom Hayden reflects
on today’s student activism
Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
Wellstone is remembered
Pre-emptive peace strike
Speech by Saad Khaddin- American-Iraqi
Spiritual series- Rev. Dr. Carolyn Boyd
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Story: October 26 anti-war demonstrations
Tomorrow, hundreds of buses will converge on Washington,
DC from across the country for what organizers expect will
be the largest anti-war demonstration since the Vietnam era.
Ryme Katkhouda reports from Pacifica station WPFW.
Tape: Report from Ryme Katkhouda
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Story: University of Texas students vote against
the war
In addition to major anti-war rallies in Washington and
San Francisco this weekend, protests are due to take place
in dozens of cities around the country. In Nashville, Tennessee,
activists will hold an Anti-War Anti-Weapons march; in Taos,
New Mexico, marchers will gather outside the home of War Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld and in Texas, a peace march is scheduled in
San Antonio. In Austin—Bush’s hometown—students
at the University of Texas delivered the President what they’re
hoping will be an embarrassment to him politically. Forrest
Wilder is a senior at U.T. Austin. He describes a recent campus
debate around an anti-war resolution.
Tape: Interview with Forrest Wilder
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Story: Veteran student activist Tom Hayden reflects
on today’s student activism
A name synonymous with the student activist movement of
the sixties is Tom Hayden, former head of Students for a Democratic
Society and famous for his role in the Chicago 7 Trial, where
Hayden and six others were arrested and charges with starting
a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
We spoke with Hayden about today’s generation of student
activists.
Tape: Interview with Tom Hayden
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Breaking news story: Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
We learned today of the tragic and shocking news of the
death of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. He was
the only Senator up for reelection in a tight race that voted
against the Bush administration’s war resolution. Wellstone
died in a plane crash today near the Eveleth, Minnesota Municipal
Airport. His wife, daughter, three staff members and two crew
members were also reportedly killed. In Los Angeles in August
2000, on a panel discussion about the state of democracy in
America, Wellstone describes what politics meant to him
Tape: Paul Wellston speech
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Story: Wellstone is remembered
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone will be sorely missed by many
Americans, particularly those in the progressive community.
We spoke earlier this afternoon with Pacifica’s National
Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky.
Tape: Discussion between Verna Avery Brown Larry Bensky
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Story: Pre-emptive peace strike Report by Evan Davis
About 300 people gathered in Akron, Ohio yesterday to protest
the Whitehouse's plans for war against Iraq. With temperatures
hovering just above freezing in the dimming evening light,
the spirited crowd of students and youth, senior citizens,
veterans and clergy expressed a number of objections to Bush's
foreign military policy ranging from concerns over the cost
of the war to the U.S. economy to the injustice of threatening
innocent lives both in Iraq and here at home.
Tape: Report from Evan Davis
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Story: Speech by Saad Khaddin- American-Iraqi
While hundreds of thousand of US citizens are voicing their
opposition to a war on Iraq, Saad Khaddin, an Iraqi, spoke
at the labor against the war organizing conference last weekend
in New York.
Tape: Speech of Saad Khaddin, prepared by WBIX.org - Refugees
radio producers Fred Nguyen, Tom Gomez and Ryme Katkhouda
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Story: Spiritual series- Rev. Dr. Carolyn Boyd
In today’s segment on the spiritual response to the
impending war on Iraq, we speak with a minister of metaphysical
teachings, the Rev. Dr. Carolyn Boyd of the Spirit of Truth
Center of Washington, DC. Dr. Boyd says that war should be
the absolute last resort to resolving conflicts.
Tape: Rev. Dr. Carolyn Boyd of the Spirit of Truth Center
of Washington, DC.
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