Pacifica's Peace Watch
Wednesday. Dec. 4, 2002
Today's Stories:
Bush Press Conference
When Bush Mispeaks
Voices in the Wilderness
Exxon Protest
True/False Quiz on the War
Code Pink
David James Duncan
Women for Peace
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Story: Bush Press Conference
Iraq says its forthcoming report detailing its weapons programs
will not include any admission that it has weapons of mass
destruction. General Mohammed Amin, the Iraqi official working
with U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq, said today in Baghdad the
report demanded by the U.N. by Sunday will be huge, with "new
elements".
But he said the report will not include so-called "prohibited
activities" - an apparent reference to weapons of mass
destruction. The developments came as U.N. monitors in Iraq
continued to search for weapons. A U.N. spokesman said the
number of inspectors and inspection sites will increase in
the days ahead.
One U.N. team headed northwest of the capital, Baghdad,
to make sure work at a demolished center for chemical weapons
had not resumed, while another team traveled south of the
capital to a facility associated with Iraq's nuclear program.
Speaking to reporters earlier today on the topic of the weapons
inspectors in Iraq and the war on terrorism, President Bush
seemed to downplay the importance of what the inspectors might
find and emphasized the importance of Saddam Hussein’s
willingness to disarm.
Tape: George W. Bush
Story: When Bush Mispeaks
In an interview earlier this week linguist Mark Crispin
Miller asserted that when Bush speaks or mis speaks, it is
not accurate to call him a moron but a sociopath; that Bush’s
misspeaks are not reflections of his lack of intelligence,
but of his sociopathic tendencies. He makes the argument that
Bush misspeaks when he attempts to express compassion or sympathy
for others. Miller affirms that is the definition of a sociopath.
Tape: Mark Crispin Miller
Story: Voices in the Wilderness
A group of Americans made up of nuns, priests, nobel peace
prize laureates, doctors and ministers have been slapped with
another $20-thousand dollar fine by the U.S. Treasury Department
for breaking the sanctions against Iraq by traveling to the
country and carrying medicine. Members of the group say they’re
hoping the government will try to prosecute them for taking
medicine and toys to sick children.
Tape: Father Simon Harak , Voices in the Wilderness
Another member of the Wilderness team is living in Cliff
Kendy, an organic market gardner from Indiana. He spoke with
us this afternoon from Bagdad where the Holy season of Ramadan
is coming to an end. The group has said it will not pay the
$20-thousand dollar fine to the U.S. Justice Department but
instead will collect that amount and use it to purchase medicine
or to repair water treatment facilities damaged from U.S.
bombings in 1989. They’re urging other Americans to
write letters to the editors and to their congressional representatives,
telling them the people of Iraq are not our enemy.
Tape: Cliff Kendy, Voices in the Wilderness.
Story: Exxon Protest
In Washington DC, peace activists gathered at EXXON-MOBILE
headquarters and performed a "Die-In." Wrapping
themselves in body bags with a grim reaper hovering over the
bodies, they laid themselves on the sidewalk in downtown Washington.
Chris Doran, an organizer with a coalition called "Pressure
Point", educated the passers-by with a megaphone. The
group then spontaneously marched to a nearby EXXON-MOBIL gas
station.
Tape: Matt Bradley from the Independent Media Center
Story: True/False Quiz on the War
At a recent Wage Peace Community Social in Houston, Texas,
Middle School teacher Rick Brennan contributed to a democratic
discussion of mass media and George W. Bush's march to war
with Iraq. He began his lesson with a true false quiz about
recent news coverage on current conflict between the United
States and Iraq. From Pacifica station KPFT in Houston, Renee
Feltz brings us the sounds of the teach-in:
Tape:
Story: Code Pink
National anti-war activists from Global Exchange, Code Pink,
students from University of Maryland, DC Statehood Greenparty
and others participated in this DC artistic demonstration
at Exxon-Mobil. This was the first performance of their coalition:
"Pressure Point-Redefining Corporate Power Through Grassroots,
Nonviolent Direct Action".
Tape: by Ryme Katkhouda, Pacifica’s Peacewatch, WPFW
and Matt Bradley from the IMC-DC
Story: David James Duncan
Author, professor David James Duncan offers a unique perspective
on the Bush administration’s domestic programs and calls
for academicians and authors to become engaged. Duncan blasts
Bush’s attack on civil liberties as “cruel and
stupid.” Duncan’s article “Serving the National
Interest as a Bush/Cheney T.I .P.S. Operative, appears this
month in the Oriononline.org magazine: Discourse and Dissent:
Thoughts on America
Tape: David James Duncan
Story: Women for Peace
Across the country, people opposed to a war with Iraq are
taking part in daily protests and vigils to spread the message
of peace. We spoke with Marisol Arriola, a domestic family
advocate and volunteer with the Women of Color Resource Center
about her organization's work and its creative actions to
educate women about the effects of war...
Tape: Marisol Arriola Women of Color Resource Center in
San Jose, CA
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