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Today's Stories:
Helen Caldicott
Students Walkout in Washington, DC
Students Walkout Roundtable
Poets Against the War - Dan Vera
Organization of the Islamic Conference Meeting
Code Pink Embassies
Forum with Nightline Host Ted Koppel
Author and Professor Robert Jensen on the American Anti-war
Movement
Joey Donavan, artist, performer
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Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein on Wednesday of maneuvering to divide the U.N. Security
Council and "split us into arguing factions." He
conceded that key differences remain among members on using
force. But Powell declared Saddam's efforts would fail. "No
nation has been taken in by his transparent tactics,"
he said in a speech to a foreign-policy group.
U.S. forces would hit Iraq with 10 times as many bombs in
the opening days of an air campaign as in the 1991 Gulf War
in an assault meant to "shock and awe" Iraqi defenders,
officials said Wednesday. Many more of the bombs would be
guided by lasers or satellite signals; adding to accuracy,
one official said.
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Story: Helen Caldicott
Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel peace price nominee, environmental
scientist and leading advocate for nuclear disarmament and
author of New Nuclear Danger, George Bush’s Military
Industrial Complex, offers a chilling scenario if we go to
war with Iraq. Peacewatch spoke with Caldicott today about
the impending war on Iraq, her unique proposal for stopping
the war and her recent appearance on a national news outlet.
Tape: Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel peace price nominee, environmental
scientist, leading advocate for nuclear disarmament and author
of The New Nuclear Danger, George Bush’s Military Industrial
Complex
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Story: Students Walkout in Washington, DC
On this NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION with student strikes happening
across the country, high school students in Washington, D.C.
chose a different tack. ALREADY they have participated in
multiple walkouts. Today, they concentrated on broadening
the support behind their actions…
Tape: Report from Matt Bradley
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Story: Students Walkout Roundtable
High school students are getting involved in the anti-war
movement, raising questions about how schools should discipline
students whose activism disrupts classes. Local school principals
faced that dilemma today, when some Bay Area teenagers joined
local college students in a nationwide anti-war walkout. Amanda
Crater is a student at U.C. Berkeley who along with high school
senior Ben Waxman spoke with Peacewatch about the walk-outs
planned at their schools and those scheduled for today all
around the country.
Tape: Amanda Crater and Ben Waxman
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Story: Poets Against the War - Dan Vera
Several weeks ago on Peacewatch, we spoke with poet Sam
Hamill, who declined a White House invitation to recite poetry
at a symposium hosted by Laura Bush because he wouldn’t
be allowed to share his anti-war views. Hamill’s refusal
sparked the website "Poets Against the War (dot) org,"
and a day of poetry reading across the country. We present
now Dan Vera with his poem entitled "Place Poem Washington
DC," as recited here in the nation’s capitol.
Tape: Poet Dan Vera. Thanks to Allen Bushnell for production
assistance with that piece.
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Story: Organization of the Islamic Conference Meeting
Less than a week after the 22-member Arab league summit
on Iraq, the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference
held an emergency meeting today to discuss the ways and means
to avert a war. As the US and Britain are deploying more troops
and military equipment to the region, the Summit voiced hope
that a miracle could take place to stop the war.
Tape: Oula Farawati filed this report
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Story: Code Pink Embassies
Embassy row in Washington DC was awash in bright pink wigs
and umbrellas this afternoon. About three-dozen demonstrators
from the Code Pink women's peace vigil, Global Exchange of
San Francisco, and DC's Institute for Policy Studies went
to the governments of Turkey, France, and Russia...in thanks
for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the standoff
with Iraq. The demonstrators asked the governments of Mexico
and Chile to stand up to US pressure for the next UN war vote,
which could happen as soon as next week.
Tape: Ralph Kavannah and Amy Quinn from the Institute for
Policy Studies, Medea Benjamin, Eve Libertone, and Judith
Ansarra-Gass from the women's peace group Code Pink, and the
DC Embassy staff of Chile, Russia, Turkey, and France. Thanks
to Free Speech Radio News reporter Josh Chaffin and Radha
Lewis from the DC Radio Co-op
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Story: Forum with Nightline Host Ted Koppel
The call from the global peace movement for a deeper examination
into a US-led invasion of Iraq may finally be getting a response
from mainstream media outlets. Last night, ABC News Anchor
Ted Koppel hosted a Town Hall Meeting in Washington, DC to
answer the question: Attack Iraq, "Why Now?"
Tape: Peace Watch correspondent Ingrid Drake filed this
report.
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Story: Author and Professor Robert Jensen on the
American Anti-war Movement
Robert Jensen is author of "Writing Dissent" and
an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
He spoke in Porto Allegre, Brazil in late January as part
of Z Magazine's Life After Capitalism sub-conference. Jensen
reflected on the uniqueness of the growing anti-war movement
in the US in part two of his speech.
Tape: Author and professor Robert Jensen, speaking at the
World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Thanks to Sonali
Kolhatkar from Pacifica station KPFK
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Story: Joey Donavan, artist, performer
In these scary times with the Bush administration’s
build-up for a war on Iraq, we wonder what is on the mind
of young people. Peacewatch producer from WPFW, Pacifica’s
station in Washington DC, Ryme Katkhouda presents Kam Thomas,
a young student from Howard University to interview Joey Dunagan,
a young musician passing through town.
Tape: Joe Dunagan. Thanks to Peacewatch producer from WPFW,
Pacifica’s station in Washington DC, Ryme Katkhouda
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