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Thursday, Dec 12, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Leslie Kean: introduction:  East Bay rep Barbara Lee says Trent Lott should step down.. a New York man just released after serving 17 years for a crime he didn't commit.. Marin County votes a moratorium on the death penaly..
-00:47  Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: *general strike* in Venezuela enters 12th day, Chavez fires shirking oil company executives.. Iraq wants talks with Kuwait.. alternative to invasion.. more French troops to Ivory Coast.. Palestinian snipers hit two Israeli soldiers, Israeli soldiers kill 7 Palestinians.. North Korea to restart nuclear program because of US provocations.. Trent Lott's latest comment just the tip of his racist iceberg..
-04:26 Leslie Kean: now w the East Bay's US House rep, Barbara Lee.. Barbara: on Trent Lott's  repeated support for segregation.. Lott's repeated patterns (link2) (link3) of being on the wrong side of liberty and justice for all.. I'm totally disgusted.. the Republicans (and Democrats) in the Senate should ask him to step down.. Strom Thurmond's 1948 campaign stood foursquare for racial discrimination.. about the Black Caucus statement.. about Lott's 'apology'.. but this is not an isolated comment.. we have a whole history and pattern of behavior.. most people don't have an idea of the insidious nature of Jim Crow.. I vividly remember having to go to 'colored only' water fountains, and being with my father in his military uniform being turned away from restaurants, and being told, 'We don't serve n****rs'.. if Lott's past is ok, what will he do now?.. how will he organize the Senate to deal with continuing injustice?.. very important for people in California to step up to the plate.. email the president.. better yet, send faxes, letters.. flood the White House with communications.. we need to hold these people accountable.. I don't believe Lott can lead the Senate.. Leslie: Colin Powell and Condi Rice haven't responded to this?.. Barbara: they should both come out and ask him to resign.. with Nancy Polosi, we have a progressive infrastructure in Congress.. we need to register more people to vote.. we must take back the White House and Congress..
-16:54 Leslie: now with a recent commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal..  Mumia: example of Louis 14th of Spain.. the divine right of kings.. now the divine right of capital.. states are but instruments of corporate lust for gain.. we're now facing a war for oil.. the divine right of cash.. would we be going to war if Iraq was oil-free?.. the brillance of Louis has been superseeded by the boring George Bush.. Iraq will become little more than a gasoline station with a flag.. Calvin Coolidge said the business of America is business.. he presided over the start of the crash of 1929..
-20:33 music break
-21:45 Leslie: Angelo Martinez released from life in prison after 17 years..  another man confessed.. now from New York, Angelo and his attorney.. Angelo: about how I was convicted.. 1975.. only one guy said I did it, that was it.. no physical evidence.. about the violence in prison.. no one cares who you are.. Leslie: how did you keep your sanity?.. Angelo: I kept telling myself I was innocent and someday.. then I basically accepted that prison was going to be my life.. then a miracle.. Leslie: your original attorney disbarred?.. told that another man confessed to the crime, but didn't follow through.. Attorney: US attorney in a drug case, in 1979, made a mob hit man admit to 'all his crimes'.. one of those crimes was the murder of the person Angelo was convicted of.. the hit man gave the name and date, even said he knew that another man (ie Angelo) was in prison for that murder.. US attorney wrote the DA and the original attorney.. but the DA demanded a polygraph test.. the confessor *failed* the lie detector.. and nobody did anything else.. Angelo not even told about the hit man's confession until 2001.. then the DA had a guilt attack and the whole thing was checked out.. and it checked out.. in 1979 the attorney should have checked out the confession, the DA should have checked out the confession.. they have an obligation to insure no innocent person is convicted.. they didn't inform his appellate lawyer, only informed his limp trial lawyer.. the DA never gives any weight to a lie detector test.. Leslie: 13 years from the time the DA knew about the other confession, until Angelo's release.. Attorney: the Queen's DA.. suffers nothing.. no responsibility.. Leslie: Angelo, your reaction when you found out?.. Angelo: I was overwhelmed.. once I heard I has being exonerated I didn't believe it.. Leslie: what has the state, the DA done to help you recover?.. Angelo: they have have done nothing.. my attorneys are assisting me in finding employment.. the state took my life, I have nothing.. I have no money, no ID, no drivers license, no credit.. a 37 year old man.. starting over like a teenager.. I didn't get anything from the state.. if I get sick, I got no benefits.. nobody even bothered to call me from the state.. Attorney: to get anything, we have to bring a case to the NY Court.. to a judge appointed by the governor.. no jury trial.. Attorney: no money for lawyers for indigent persons.. in the last 18 months, a number of men released after serving 162 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit.. Leslie: what would you like to tell the governor?.. Angelo: we need competent attorneys to represent minorities, the poor.. and make the police conduct diligent investigations.. shouldn't be just one person can say you did it.. it's sad, they just lock you up on the word of one person.. they didn't bother to even question me.. I was arrested, put in a lineup.. falsely identified.. that was it.. they never even questioned me..
-42:13 music break Jack Johnson
-43:00 Leslie: recently Marin County, California supervisors voted for a death penalty moratorium..  now w Sister Marian Irvine, a Dominican nun who works with the Marin County Death Penalty Moratorium.. Sister Marian: we got this Marin County moratorium going.. collecting signatures.. got 96,000 signatures.. held a forum here at the college.. got Greg Wilholt to speak.. talked to the supes.. and got a unanimous approval.. Marin County houses San Quentin, but the resolution will have no effect on executions there.. now w David Atwood of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.... David: 33 executions in Texas this year so far.. but we had moratorium bills passed out of committee.. not passed though.. in El Paso, a moratorium resolution passed by county supes.. 289 total executed since death penalty restated.. Texans support the death penalty 70%.. but support for moratorium is 50%.. the problem is Texas is extremely conservative.. and education, the people don't know much about the flaws in the death penalty.. Sister Marian: about Sister Helen, author of Dead Man Walking.. about Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation.. many cities have passed moratorium resolutions..
-54:50 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:34 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Wednesday December 11, 2002 - Cross burning a protected activity?.. Narco News on Venezuelan general strike: 'revolt of the spoiled brats'.. Oil still spilling, killing.. Houston protests, memorial..
Tuesday December 10, 2002 - Right wing Venezuelan media called to task.. resistance grows to US troops in the Philippines.. about Trent Lott's support for segregationist policies.
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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