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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
photo/s from protest at Oakland Federal Building
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: right wing Venezuelan media called to task.. resistance grows to US troops in the Philippines.. about Trent Lott's support for segregationist policies.
-00:50  Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: today nationwide protests against Bush's plans for war.. about Trent Lott's racist endorsement of 1948 Thurmond segregationist drive.. US spirited away the Iraqi report, contrary to every principle.. White House stands behind Trent Lott.. about Lott's non-apology.. Ari Flescher ducks response.. says president Bush *accepts his apology*.. Lott is a white supremacist.. and Tom Dashle originally agreed with Lott.. now audio: sounds of a rabbi, a priest, and two ministers arrested at anti-war protest.. "we're here as human beings, flesh of each other's flesh.. the right to live in peace.. we love our country dearly, and our prayer is she will live up to her ideals".. "awaken the American people of the need to protest".. "the time has come for the religious community to be a headlight instead of a taillight".. "I want to be with the peacemakers, not the warmakers.. this war is not necessary.. I would the president would devote as much time"
-07:10 Dennis: we continue coverage of the situation in Venezuela.. the upper classes going head to head with the poor supporters of Hugo Chavez.. now w independent reporter, sociologist, Gregory Wilpert:.. last night pro-government demonstrators surrounded TV stations, protesting the one-sided coverage.. the media labeled the peaceful demonstrations 'genocide'.. Dennis: (compares Reuters and UK Independent headlines about the story).. Greg: Reuters gets its coverage from the local  media in Caracus.. the Independent is more objective.. their reporter has been to the barrios.. the Independent says Chavez faces a 'Pinochet-type opposition'.. Rueters supports the media's demonization of the lower classes.. only one station supports Chavez, a state owned station.. the other five stations.. have a grip.. sickening.. if you don't share their views, you have to be suspect of everything they say.. people just got tired of it.. children and elderly among the demonstrators, peaceful.. shows significant support for the government.. Dennis: the media gives the opposition the airwaves.. dark-skinned and lighter skinned, rich and poor.. Greg: the vast majority of the poor support Chavez.. he was democratically elected and should be able to serve out his term according to the constitution.. the interests of US government and Chavez opposition coincide.. now the US playing down its opposition to Chavez.. the US doesn't want turmoil in Venezuela at the same time as war in Iraq.. about the Venezuelan oil company executives.. a large bureacratic overhang.. Chavez is trying to trim the bureacracy, that's why they went on strike.. Dennis: not a grassroots strike?.. Greg: No.. the union presented as spokesperson for the strike.. but the workers want to work.. the Chamber of Commerce funding the strike.. paying the workers to strike.. the stores are closing because management is closing the stores, not because workers not showing up.. I don't believe a coup will happen because of international repercussions, and because Chavez has cultivated the military.. doubtful he will resign, either.. but so many dirty tricks in this country.. like last Friday's shooting, maybe organized by extreme elements in the opposition.. last Friday a gunman opened fire on an opposition rally.. caught.. at first they said.. a crude video surfaced.. showing a pro-Chavez major with this guy.. but the government said they had proof that the gunman flew in from overseas just a couple hours before the shooting.. a film interview with family and neighbors at the man's house, a big oppostion poster in his room.. now both videos gone from the media, from the internet.. suspicious that they are completely suppressing this.. maybe dirty tricks on both sides.. who benefited from this attack?.. not the government for sure.. Dennis: a textbook case of agent provacatour.. curious though that the wire services didn't waste a moment blaming Chavez.. Otto Reich quoted on NPR today saying 'rage on the street' fueling all this..
-25:12 music break
-25:40 Dennis: the US global war of terror made its way into the Philippines.. about human rights violations committed by US forces recently.. now w Maria Enriques.. of KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People Rights in the Philippines)..  Maria: on Jan 31 of this year.. US troops allowed to participate in actions against the *Abu Sayyaf*... US troops involved in a shooting.. raided a man's house.. immediately a soldier shot him.. another date,  four farmers killed.. fleeing from a firefight.. caught, separated from the women.. the women heard gunshots.. one a 12 year old boy shot.. also a bombing of a fishing boat, two men killed, and a boy.. a US spyplace fingered the boat.. we hold the US troops responsible for all these violations.. training, advising Philippine elements.. US troops did not pull out, after July 31..  Dennis: absolutely illegal for US troops to be fighting on the front lines.. Maria: on Nov 20, 2002, an agreement signed.. gives virtual basing rights to US troops.. we kicked them out in 1991.. now they are back.. endless military 'exercises' permitted.. President Arroyo says even 50 years is 'temporary'.. this has never been explained to the people.. Dennis: have you come under attack?.. Marie: yes, six of our workers killed, the military calling us communists.. 167 political killings in the country.. our offices raided, files carted away.. we are being attacked viciously by the government.. Dennis: Event: come meet Maria, at SF State University, Ceasar Chavez Center, 1600 Holloway Ave; 7-9PM tonight.. more info 415-431-1918
-38:45 Dennis: about Trent Lott's supportive remarks about Strom Thurmond's 1948 drive for segregation.. a firestorm of criticism from the African American community.. now w Ron Daniels of the Center for Constitutional Rights.. Ron: the ugly underbelly..  racism driven underground.. Lott blurted out what he really feels.. says Thurmond's election in 1948 'would have solved all these problems we've been having'.. Thurmond would have kept us on the plantation.. we've been seeing a lot of this in the Bush administration.. Norton, Ashcroft.. Lott.. confederate sympathizers.. about Mississippi.. a reservoir of hatred.. manifesting in Bush's administration.. as bad as Trent Lott, the democrats capitulating to the nomination of Dennis Share (Thurmond's final judicial nominee).. in some ways more insulting.. this judge will sit on the bench.. Dennis: when I visited Mississippi in 1985, a recent shootout in Jackson.. opened fire on the black people.. they went to this guy's house.. notes for a race war.. major Klan demonstrations, and Lott in the middle of this.. Ron: he was on record praising the White Citizens Council (link2) .. about the mentality of someone like Trent Lott.. keeping large numbers of people, including white people in poverty.. crazy.. how to overcome this kind of racial divide.. Lott in colusion with the energy kingpins.. his family living quite comfortably.. poor whites in Mississippi can't look past race to their own interest.
-57:00 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Monday December 9, 2002 - Civil rights activists call for Trent Lott's resignation over Strom Thurmond slur.. popular elected Haitian and Venezuelan presidents may be forced out of office by US commercial interests..
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Friday December 6, 2002 - Leslie Kean interview with attorneys trying to represent prisoners held incommunicado at Guatanamo Bay.. Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness fined $20,000 for aiding Iraqis.. Gulf War cleanup expert Major Doug Rocke speaks out about the hellish uses and dangers of depleted uranium.
Thursday December 5, 2002 - Dennis Bernstein interview with distinguished Israeli parlimentarian and peace activist, Uri Avneri.. South Koreans protest US military court verdict absolving two GIs of negligent homicide for crushing two teen age girls under a military vehicle
Wednesday December 4, 2002 - Israeli soldiers kill an 95-year-old Palestinian woman for riding in a cab on a 'Jews Only' road.. Turkey, Israel, and the US hawks.. an HIV positive woman activist, US nurse Joy Lee Sadler, on a hunger strike in an Indonesian jail
Tuesday December 3, 2002 - huge oil slick hits the coast of Spain.. report from protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.. Kathy Kelly's Iraqi Journal.. Sierra Club threatening its Glen Canyon (Southern Utah) chapter for speaking out against Bush's war plans
Monday December 2, 2002 - Africa suffers under Terror, the US War on Terror.. interview with ex-CIA agent, Phillip Agee living in Cuba.. the second wave of a massive oil spill threatens the coast of Spain
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Friday November 29, 2002 - excerpts from a recent speech by award winning British journalist, Robert Fisk, on happenings Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and Palestine
Thursday November 28, 2002 - THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: about the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by American Indian tribes, and excerpts from a recent documentary, 'Alcatraz is not an Island'
Wednesday November 27, 2002 - Israeli forces invade Dheisheh with tanks and attack dogs.. Allegra Pacheco on the arrest of her husband in Bethlehem.. Peter Cornbluh about Henry Kissinger's appointment to head Bush's 9/11 inquiry.. Interview with Henry (or is it an imposter?) in his own words.
Tuesday November 26, 2002 - Israeli soldiers open fire on a crowd of children.. US right wingers try to destabilize Haiti.. interview with Nat Hentoff about our disappearing civil liberties.
Monday November 25, 2002 - Israeli soldiers assassinate a UN worker, and harrass others.. why the media attack on the Saudis now?.. E.U. lawsuit accuses R.J. Reynolds of money laundering for drug cartels and Saddam Hussein
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Friday November 22, 2002 - interview with award winning London Independent journalist, Robert Fisk, in studio.. live report from Kevin Pina in Haiti, about the protests today in support of president Aristide.
Thursday November 21, 2002 - a dangerous renaissance of nuclear power around the world.. interview with a new Palestinian film maker, director of Crossing Calandia.. peace activist Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center..
Wednesday November 20, 2002 - Largest oil spill in history off the coast of Spain, Greenpeace says we tried to warn them.. drug-running Colombian general's US visa yanked en route to Israel.. Interview with Alexander Cockburn of Counterpoint, about lefty Christopher Hitchens and his bomb Iraq policy..
Tuesday November 19, 2002 - 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..
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 Evens, 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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