Pacifica's Peace Watch
Tues. Dec. 10, 2002
Today's Stories:
Iraq Update
U.S. Takes Iraq’s UN Report
Nobel Peace Prize….Jimmy Carter
International Human Rights Day: Worldwide Actions
Recruiters for Peace Rally
Physicians for Social Responsibilities Press Conference
Rania Masri Speech
Daryl Cherney
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Story: Iraq Update
Confronted with an 11,807-page declaration that Iraq is
not in possession of weapons of mass destruction, the Bush
administration is trying to decide whether to use armed force
against Iraq soon or allow United Nations inspections to continue
their work for another two or three months.
Some analysts warn that the inspections were nothing more
than a "shell game" orchestrated by Saddam Hussein,
who has made a long habit of frustrating U.N. weapons inspectors.
Critics of U.S. policy say that if the White House had intelligence
showing Iraq was engaged in banned weapons programs, it would
have made the specifics public long ago in a bid to build
international support.
Critics and supporters of U.S. policy agreed that Hussein's
cooperation with U.N. inspectors is making it harder for the
United States to build international support for a possible
invasion of Iraq. The lack of broad support could affect the
timing of a possible war and determine whether the United
States goes in at the head of a broad coalition like the one
gathered for the 1991 Persian Gulf war, or with a much smaller
"coalition of the willing."
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Story: U.S. Takes Iraq’s UN Report
Frances Boyle, professor of international law at the University
of Illinois, College of Law, Champagne, says the U.S. is jeopardizing
the process by confiscating the report.
Tape: Frances Boyle, professor of international law at the
University of Illinois, College of Law, Champagne, IL
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Story: Nobel Peace Prize….Jimmy Carter
Former US president Jimmy Carter has warned of the potentially
"catastrophic consequences" of a pre-emptive US
war on Iraq. The comments came in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
speech in Oslo. Mr. Carter did not mention either country
by name, but said: "For powerful countries to adopt a
principle of preventative war may well set an example that
can have catastrophic consequences." The Bush administration
has changed US defense doctrine since the 11 September attacks
to one of taking pre-emptive action before threats materialize.
Tape: Jimmy Carter
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Story: International Human Rights Day: Worldwide
Actions
It has been over half a century since the United Nations
adopted the universal declaration of human rights on December
10, 1948. Today thousands of people from across the country
have chosen to observe international human rights day by calling
for peace and protesting against a possible war in Iraq. More
than a hundred communities in more than fifteen states are
rallying, holding teach-ins, sit-ins and die-ins from North
Carolina to Alaska… to say peace and human rights go
hand in hand.
Tape: UN, NY, DC, Holland, MI, Louisiana, Oakland, CA, Jamaica
Plain, MA, Mahwah, NJ
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Story: Recruiters for Peace Rally
At the DC morning rally recruit for peace, justice and liberation,
not war, four people were arrested this during nonviolent
anti-war demonstrations at two military recruiting stations
in DC.
Tape: by Ryme Katkhouda, Peace Watch producer from WPFW,
Pacifica's station in Washington DC
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Story: Physicians for Social Responsibilities Press
Conference
International physicians' groups are warning that a war
on Iraq could kill nearly four million people. In Oakland,
California yesterday physicians for social responsibility
and the international physicians for the prevention of nuclear
war presented a report estimating the medical consequences
of a U.S.-led war on Iraq. Depending on the scenario, projected
death tolls range from forty-eight thousand to nearly four
million (in the scenario with thermonuclear weapons).
Tape: Press Conference report from Peach Watch correspondent
Ed Rippy,
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Story: Rania Masri Speech
Despite potentially damaging effects of war with Iraq, there
are those who support it. Human rights activist and environmental
scientist Rania Masri spoke with journalist Jeff Blankfort
of Pacifica affiliate KZYX about reasons for US and Israeli
support of the war, and resulting misconceptions.
Tape: Rania Masri, report by Jeff Blankfort of Pacifica
affiliate KZYX
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Story: Daryl Cherney
In our ongoing series of people taking creative responses
to war, we spoke to political activist, and songwriter, Daryl
Cherney. He is best known, not for his music but his environmental
activism and for surviving a 1990 car bombing with fellow
Earth First member Judy Bari. Cherney offers his very unique
perspective of the war against terrorism and Iraq and his
insights into the possible economic and environmental impact
it will have.
Tape: Daryl Cherney, environmentalist, political activist
and songwriter.
Credits
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