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Protesting Ehud Barak's *Generous Offer*
5:30PM tonight Tuesday Nov 19, Zellerbach Hall, UCB
Details: Jewish Voice for Peace
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction:
new NATO 'Find and Strike' force to operate outside international law.. extended wire taps approved by a U.S appeals court.. Homeland Security Act rider protects drug manufacturers from being sued for defective vaccines..
-00:48 Dennis: NATO ok's a rapid response 'Find and Strike' force, to operate outside international law, to strike at *terrorist* targets anywhere in the world it choses.. to explain, now w Richard Norton Taylor, journalist with the Guardian of London.. (his story today).. Richard: about this plan: the US will be legislator, judge and executioner.. the hawks in the White House have plans for Nato.. this force will strike anywhere in the world with or without the authority of the host nation.. the US will provide the firepower, the Europeans will provide the "soft power", ie. they will clean up the mess.. France is deeply uneasy.. Germany continues to distance itself from Bush.. but no matter.. discussion about why Washington wants political cover, and why Europe, especially Britain, seems willing to provide it.. why Britains feel they cannot say no to US demands
-12:00 Dennis: US appeals court rules Justice Department has broad new powers in wiretaps.. now w Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Jean Butterfield with the American Immigration Lawyers Association.. Jean: it's open season on the 4th Amendment.. (roundtable discussion)
-26:14 music break It's All About The Price Of Oil
-28:32 Dennis: tomorrow Congress votes on the Homeland Security Act in its entirety.. one obscure clause makes it more difficult for families whose children were harmed by routine vaccinations to be compensated.. over 25 law firms have filed a lawsuit on behalf of victims.. James Ferrell is an attorney for several plaintiffs and says this issue has no business in *homeland security* and what they're doing is trying to protect certain companies.. now w James Ferrell: they are using this as an opportunity to protect vaccine manufacturers.. about Eli Lilly.. about their product *thymerasol* (sp?) added to vaccines in the 1990's.. contained mercury.. I represent several hundred children from the 1990's.. aultism.. an enormous financial burden.. the children have been deprived, the parents have been deprived.. Dennis: this is amazingly being written into the 'Homeland Security Act' (HSA), protecting Eli Lilly.. why the rate of aultuism doubled in the 1990's.. skyrocketing rates mirror the use of thymerasol.. why we think they companies knew the risks of vaccinating children with mercury.. about the amendment to the HSA.. about the requirements for parents to file timely under the HSA.. Dennis: it will suggested that any parent who sues, will be seen as aiding or abetting terrorism.
-37:27 Dennis: now w Pam Corley, mom of a 3 year old, James, a thymerasol affected child.. Pam: when he was about a year old, he stopped developing.. Dennis: how did you learn it was mercury poisoning, related to thymerasol.. Pam: I went everywhere, nobody had an answer, said he's just retarded.. finally I went to a doctor, he said we'll do blood tests.. said he had extrememly high levels of mercury in his blood.. he was two days old when he got his first shot.. and then he got the regular sequence of vaccines.. the attorney and I looked up the lot numbers of the vaccines.. my child is permanently handicapped.. serious issue.. mercury goes to your digestive system when an adult eats it.. shocking to me that the second most toxic element known to man, goes directly into the bloodstream of children in vaccines.. Dennis: the HSA will limit your ability to seek justice from the drug companies for putting mercury in your child's vaccine.. Pam: about greed and the desire to make money.. inconceivable.. I can not possibly imagine how terrorism and my disabled child can be related.. to the president of Eli Lilly: how to explain raising a child.. I can not take him to the movies.. people stare at you.. heartbreaking.. it never happens with me and my son.. I go to the grocery store and see moms irritated that their sons demand to get items on the shelf, I wish my boy could even do that.
-47:00 music break
-49:28 Dennis: about tonight's visit to UC Berkeley by former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak.. now w Barbara Lubin of Middle East Children's Alliance.... Barbara:  Barak sparked this latest infitada.. he has a history of destroying peace.. tonight's protest begins about 5:30 at Zellerback.. Dennis: more history about Barak.. he's a racist?.. Barbara: under Barak a 90% increase in settlement building.. Barak involved in assassinations too.. a horrible background.. about Camp David.. nobody understands what that so-called offer was about.. Barak 'offered' the Palestinians 20% of their original land back.. some offer.. I'm asking people to come out.. I took heat a couple years ago for the protest against Netanyahu that was concelled.. we need to come out.. be non-violent, be peaceful.. and we have every right to protest too.. protest Ehud Barak's *Generous Offer*, 5:30PM tonight Tuesday Nov 19, Zellerbach Hall, UCB.. Details: Jewish Voice for Peace
-55:27 End today's show.. today's review by john lionheart
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Monday November 18, 2002 - Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter, hired by the Pentagon to play big brother.. Mexico's new role as US southern security guard.. Kathy Kelly's Baghdad Journal.. Updates from Gaza and the West Bank..
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Friday November 15, 2002 - interview with two American activists in Baghdad.. US military now requiring US high schools to provide students' personal contact information.. interview with the Irish author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday, about the massacre by British paratroopers, Jan 20, 1972
Thursday November 14, 2002 - Linda Evans, a former woman political prisoner and two Puerto Rican women activists talk about Vieques.. about this weekend's National Conference on Civil Rights at UC Berkeley.. the truth about military use of depleted uranium
Wednesday November 13, 2002 - It's about more than oil, the US and Britain want to redraw the entire map of the Middle East.. Israel continues to steal Palestinian Arab land.. Rainforest Action Network targets CitiGroup.
Tuesday November 12, 2002 - A troubling human rights report says 4 million people could die in a new Iraqi war; are weapons inspections an alternative to war or a prelude to war?.. 2,500 California prisoners in solitary confinement, some go on hunger strike to protest the 'lousiest' lockups in America.
Monday November 11, 2002 - Flashpoints Veterans Day Special: veterans' stories of past wars and how to resist the next one.. devoted today to those who risked their lives.. phone in show with Dennis Bernstein and Barbara Lubin..
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Friday November 8, 2002 - interview with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness in Baghdad.. Diana Buttu, PLO legal advisor.. US groups rally on Monday to demand weapons inspections at Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley.
Thursday November 7, 2002 - the world one step closer to war, new UN Resolution almost approved, interview with Dennis Halliday.. in depth look at Indonesia after the Bail bombing, interviews with Kurt Biddle and Sylvia T. Wan
Wednesday November 6, 2002 - US war machine sets up a forward fighting base in Dijbuoti.. SEC chief Harvey Pitt resigns under a cloud, about the Corporate Roques Gallery operating in the Bush Administration.. Interviews with Charles Cobb Jr. and Tyson Slocum
Tuesday November 5, 2002 - CIA roadside air-sniper missile killings in Yemen, interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Francis Boyle, Marjorie Cohn.. and John Junkerman, director of Power and Terror, a new film about Noam Chomsky
Monday November 4, 2002 - John MacArthur publisher of Harpers Magazine: how Democrat Tom Lantos leads the propaganda machine against Iraq.. hear from Lantos's opponent, Maad Abu-Ghazalah.. Greg Palast on tomorrow's rigged election in Florida
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Friday November 1, 2002 - about the US's deadly discrimination against Haitian immigrants.. interview w Leonard Peltier's daughter, Marquita.. Jewish settler violence at an all time high as Palestinian farmers try to harvest their olives
Thursday October 31, 2002 - FTAA protests start today in Ecuador.. Death row in Illinois.. Arab Film Festival starts in Berkeley, SF, and San Jose
Wednesday October 30, 2002 - Jewish settlers kidnap and torture Odnan Ahmed, a Palestinian olive picker.. interview w Tariq Ali on the US 'War On Terror' in the Middle East and Latin America.. National workers strike in Colombia
Tuesday October 29, 2002 - death toll from the storming of the Russian theater continues to rise, about the gas agent used.. implications for bio/chem warfare treaties.. arrests, violence increase against Palestinian civilians..
Monday October 28, 2002 - COMPLETE AUDIO: John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation
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Friday October 25, 2002 - Venezuelan military plots a new coup.. secret FTAA meetings in Ecuador.. Jeb Bush on the ropes in Florida?.. about tomorrow's anti-war protests in SF and DC.
Thursday October 24, 2002 - about the giant anti-war mobilizations this coming Saturday.. more from John Pilger, about his excellent new documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue.
Wednesday October 23, 2002 - John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation
Tuesday October 22, 2002 - excerpts from 'The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm' documentary, about depleted uranium.. Ramsey Clark on US as renegade state.. Vieques update
Monday October 21, 2002 - US continues to backtrack on Iraq war.. about 'Winning the War, Losing the Peace', a new documentary about the misery and poverty in post-war Afghanistan.
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Friday October 18, 2002 - more excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. conversation w Barbara Lubin back from Iraq and occupied Palestine.. Action Alert for October 26
Thursday October 17, 2002 - excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. protests planned this Friday over the ongoing medical abuses of California prisoners.
Wednesday October 16, 2002 - Robert Fisk on the Bali bombing, war on Iraq.. a new documentary on the Pinochet arrest.. interview with Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler, the producers of Unprecedented: 2000 Presidential Election
Tuesday October 15, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
Monday October 14, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
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Friday October 11, 2002 - Marwan Bishara on the perils facing the Middle East.. Starhawk leads protests at the SF Federal Building and Diane Fein$tein's office.. more excerpts from The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 2) Thursday October 10, 2002 - about a great new documentary, The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 1) Wednesday October 9, 2002 - Ramsey Clark, just back from Iraq.. Greg Palast on Hugo Chavez.. Oklahoma bombing victim, Bud Clark, speaks out on the death penalty.. 250 SF garment workers win lawsuit for unpaid wages Tuesday October 8, 2002 - The Case Against War, w Professor Stephen Zunes.. South African anti-apartheid veterans target Israel.. Bush invokes Taft Hartley against West Coast ILWU Monday October 7, 2002 - Israeli missile strike kills 14 Palestinian civilians including four children.. interviews with Netta Jorgesen in Gaza.. International Solidarity Member, Adam Shapiro.. Professor of Political Science, As'ad Abu-Khalil
* * * * * * * * * * * *Friday October 4, 2002 - interview w authors of the new book, 'Freedom'.. Oakland police scandal.. Queer prison activists.. about the 'Forum on Peace' workshop and 'Not In Our Name' demonstrations this weekend.
Thursday October 3, 2002 - Conversation with a man who spent four years on Oklahoma death row for a crime he didn't commit.. Activists ready for FTAA summit in Ecuador this coming Halloween
Wednesday October 2, 2002 - an hour with M. J. Akbar, Indian newspaperman, and author of The Shade of Swords; Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity.
Tuesday October 1, 2002 - 18 people die in Kashmir during elections.. interview w Dr. Angana Chatterji.. Norman Solomon: delegation to Iraq returns; Congressman Dennis Kucinich speech in Berkeley two weeks ago.
Monday September 30, 2002 - 350,000 march in London.. *National Security Strategy*.. rightwing *Campus Watch* website targets US academics.
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