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Today's Stories:
On the Ground in Baghdad with Dr. James
Jenning
NY Students Walk-Out
Media Coverage Analysis
Spin Doctors in the House
Harry Belafonte
Acie Byrd commentary
Anti- War Sentiment and Music in Louisiana
Interview with Brother Blue
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Story: On the
Ground in Baghdad with Dr. James Jenning
Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says the question of unannounced
checks on sites like Saddam's palaces, an issue that helped
derail inspections in the 1990s, ``is settled by the resolution.
It wasn't even discussed.'' Blix made his comments after departing
Baghdad at the end of a two-day visit inaugurating a new U.N.
oversight program, four years after the last inspections.
Dr. James Jennings, President of Conscience International,
is a humanitarian aid organization that’s been working
in Iraq since 1991. We spoke with him this morning from Baghdad
where he says, Inspector Hans Blix brought the Iraqi people
some welcomed news.
Guest: Dr. James Jennings, President of the humanitarian
aid organization Conscience International and longtime professor
of Middle East and Islamic studies.
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Story: NY Students Walk-Out
Students at colleges across New York, put down their books
and hit the streets instead today, protesting the impending
war with Iraq. Maya, a 21-year old student at New School University
says over a thousand high school and college students have
taken to the streets chanting ‘no war in Iraq’
and ‘not in our
names’.
Guest: Maya, student at New School University
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Story: Media Coverage Analysis
When we look back four years later, after the withdrawal
of the weapons inspectors from Iraq, it’s disturbing
to see how the major media outlets have engaged in a somewhat
revisionist spirit or collective amnesia regarding exactly
why the inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq.
Guest: Seth Ackerman of FAIR,
a media watchdog group based in New York
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Story: Spin Doctors in the House
In recent years, the US government has come to rely heavily
on private public relations corporations to rally public support
for various military endeavors. One of the most prominent
PR companies today is the Rendon Group, who recently hired
an Iraqi American student to record spoofed speeches of Saddam
Hussein for propaganda broadcasts throughout Iraq.
Guest: Ian Urbina, whose article entitled "This War
Brought to you by the Rendon Group" appeared in a recent
edition of The Village Voice.
Music Break
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Story: Harry Belafonte
The famous voice of singer and actor Harry Bellafonte resonated
loud and clear today on Capitol Hill at the 19th annual Robert
F. Kennedy award ceremony honoring Haitian Mademoiselle Loune
Viaud for her advocacy and development work on health issues
in rural Haiti. In the same way he has historically raised
his voice against intolerance and injustice at the side of
Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the civil rights movement,
Belafonte spoke today about the dire poverty resulting from
the Bush Administration’s policies at home and abroad.
Tape: Harry Belafonte
WPFW’s producer for Peace Watch, Ryme Katkhouda was
on Capitol Hill today and questioned the longtime civil rights
activists further about those policies and a comment he made
about Secretary of State Powell.
Tape: From Ryme Katkhouda, Pacifica’s Peace Watch
correspondent for WPFW with help from intern Marcus Tyler
Brown.
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Story: Acie Byrd commentary
A commentary from WPFW
programmer Acie Byrd.
Tape: Acie Byrd
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Story: Anti- War Sentiment and Music in Louisiana
The anti-war sentiment is spreading rapidly throughout out
the country, students in the streets of New York City, activists
blasting Bush’s policies on the Hill and women conducting
a hunger fast in front of the White House. And in Opelousas
Louisiana another possible outlet for antiwar voices: a new
low power FM radio station, KOCZ powered onto the airways
from the Zydeco community in Opelousas.
Tape: from WPFW’s Ryme Katkhouda,
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Story: Interview with Brother Blue
On a somewhat lighter note, we sat down today with street
poet, storyteller, Brother
Blue, aka Hugh Morgan Hill, PHD. Brother Blue has been
performing in prisons, street corners and for international
fairs for well over three decades, and has the distinction
of being the official storyteller for two cities, Cambridge
and Boston, MA.
Guest: Brother Blue
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