Pacifica's Peace Watch
Thursday, December 5, 2002
Today's Stories:
UN Weapons Inspection Teams
Phyllis Bennis
New School
Student Activism
Madison debate
"Get Your War On" Comic Strip
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Story: UN Weapons Inspection Teams
One week into their work…the U-N weapons inspection
team has come under verbal attack by both Washington and Baghdad.
There is rising concern that once again, the UN inspection
team may be infiltrated by CIA and British spies, collecting
intelligence to lay the ground work for an attack by the U.S.
and Britain.
According to Reuters News Service, Iraq has “already
branded UN arms experts as spies. Although the U.S. and Britain
have never admitted to any improprieties during the previous
years of inspections, Iraq Ambassador Mohammed Al Douri asserts
that there were indeed spies in the UN inspection teams when
they were withdrawn in 1998.
Tape: Ambassador Al Douri further asserts that Iraq has
not weapons of mass destruction and will continue to work
with the UN arms experts.
Tape: Ambassador Mohammed Al Douri
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Story: Phyllis Bennis
Tape: Phyliss Bennis UN analyst and a fellow at the Institute
for Policy Studies in Washington.
Tape: teaser from Jeremy Brecher
Story: Commentator Jeremy Brecher is author of A Nightmare
to Love: How the peace movement can use Bush’s almost
desperate attempts to destroy the arms inspection.
Tape: Jeremy Brecher a Connecticut based historian and author
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Story: New School
Support for a war in Iraq has emerged in unexpected quarters
in New York, in the office of the president of the recently
renamed New School University, a liberal college for social
research formed after the red scare of WWI by pacifists and
academic dissidents from Columbia University. The current
president of the New School is former Nebraska senator Robert
Kerry, whose support for US military policy and involvement
in a group advocating an invasion of Iraq have placed him
at odds with students and faculty.
Tape: Robert Knight
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Story: Student Activism
The role and responsibilities of students in the society
is crucial in these revolutionary times, says Debra Calhoun,
the Director of the American Friends Service Committee in
Akron Ohio. She shared her veteran student experience during
the Open Forum against a war on Iraq, at Ohio State University
in Columbus Ohio last month.
Tape: Debra Calhoun, Director of Africa's Initiative at
Northeast Ohio American Friends Services Committee; produced
by Ryme Katkhouda from WPFW.
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Story: Madison debate
Does the First amendment of the Constitution cover speech
in public schools? That is the question that one might ponder
after the Madison, Wisconsin Metropolitan School District
cancelled an anti-war teach-in that had been scheduled by
students for over a month. The reasons cited for the cancellation
was that there were no “pro-war” student participants
even though they had been invited. The School District’s
actions have caused quite a stir.
Tape: Chris Krok, of WTDY Radio in Madison, WI and Mathew
Rothschild, editor of Progressive Magazine
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Story: Comic Strip
Jeremy Quickley of KPFK spoke to illustrator David Reese
about his new book “Get
Your War On” and the origins and motivations of
his anti-war comic strip.
Tape: David Reese
Credits
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