Pacifica's Peace Watch
Thursday, Oct. 31st, 2002
Today's Stories:
UN Slowing Down US War on Iraq
GOP Hawks Held Accountable
Voices in the Wilderness Tour
Hidden Wars, excerpt
The Fire This Time: "No News Is Good News"
Michael Albert Critiques "The Left''
Baltimore Poets Take Stand Against War
A Sikh's Response To War?
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Story: UN Slowing Down US War on Iraq
The U.S. demand for speedy U.N. action on Iraq has run into
opposition from Russia, France and China, who want Washington
to change a draft resolution and eliminate any license for
the United States to attack Baghdad on its own.
Tape:
- Micheal Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional
Rights-CCR interviewed by Verna Avery-Brown.
Story: GOP Hawks Held Accountable
Reporter Jackson Allers of Pacifica station KPFT in Houston,
has been exploring the question of whether the anti-war effort
is being taken seriously by our congressional officials who
voted to abdicate their congressional war power to President
Bush. Focusing on a series of town hall meetings organized
by 7th US congressional district representative, John Culberson,
KPFT news gives this on-the-ground perspective from TC Rogers
Elementary School in Houston Texas.
Tape: Town Hall Meeting, TC Rogers Elementary School
Story: Voices in the Wilderness Tour
Peace Activists who have defied the U.S. sanctions law and
traveled to Iraq to carry food and medicine to the Iraqi people
are traveling the U.S. in a Mirror of Truth Tour. Ceylon Mooney
was taking a faith based peace movements course in college,
when he was introduced to Voices in the Wilderness. He’s
conducting the Mirror of Truth Tour and calling on Americans
to bear some accountability for the proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction. We asked Ceylon, if Americans take his
advice and look into the mirror what will they see.
Tape: Ceylon Mooney, with the Mirror of Truth Bus tour interviewed
by Verna Avery-Brown.
Story: Hidden Wars, excerpt
Yesterday on Peace Watch we listened to a musical history
lesson about the events leading up to the Gulf War. Today
we continue with a documentary by filmmakers Audrey Brohy
and Gerard Ungerman, entitled: ‘Hidden Wars of Desert
Storm.’ We pick up with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
on August 2nd 1990.
Tape: Hidden Wars (http://www.hiddenwars.com/)
Story: The Fire This Time: "No News Is Good
News"
Over the past few weeks, we've interviewed poets and musicians
who've offered their creative responses to a war with Iraq.
Today, we've selected a segment from the 2-cd set "The
Fire This Time" (http://www.firethistime.org/) portraying
a time when sanctions and war violations had taken a visible
toll on Iraqi civilians. This track is called: 'No News is
Good News.'
Tape: The Fire This Time CD 1, Track 11: "No news is
Good News"
Story: Michael Albert Critiques "The Left''
While the movement against the war in Iraq appears to be
growing, to some, there remains a risk of another anti-war
movement becoming ineffective and stagnate. Michael Albert,
the editor of ‘Z’ magazine offered his critique
of ‘the left’ at Simmons College in Boston, MA
during a conference organized by the American Friends Service
Committee.
Tape: Michael Albert at Simmons College, Friday Oct. 11,
2002
Story: Baltimore Poets Take Stand Against War
As the US elections are coming up and the current administration
is running around the country cheering on publicly its war
supporters, poets take a stand. Ryme Katkhouda, Pacifica's
Peace Watch reporter from WPFW has more...
Tape: Allan Barrysh, Poet, Activist and a member of WPFW
local Advisory Board from Baltimore.
Story: A Sikh's Response To War?
In tonight’s ongoing series on Spiritual responses
to the war, we spoke with Mangit Singh, chair of SMART
Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Task Force in Germantown, Maryland.
Tape: Mangit Singh, Chair of SMART-Sikh Mediawatch and Resource
Task Force interviewed by Verna Avery-Brown.
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