Monthly Archive: July 2001

July 31, 2001

Download MP3 file ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE ESCALATES;  NO PEACE IN SIGHT (5:21) Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Free Speech Radio News Jerusalem correspondent Peretz Kidron on the escalating attacks in to Palestinian-controlled territory by the Israeli...

July 30, 2001

Download MP3 VIEQUES VOTES FOR IMMEDIATE HALT TO U.S. BOMBING (4:16) Shannon Novak reports on yesterday’s referendum in Vieques, where over seventy percent of the ballots cast called for the immediate end of US...

July 27, 2001

Download MP3 14 YEAR-OLD MURDERER SENTENCED TO 28 YEARS IN ADULT PRISON Mitch Perry reports from Tampa on the case of Nathan Brazill, a 14 year-old tried as an adult for shooting to death...

July 26, 2001

Download MP3 U.N. CONFERENCE ON RACISM IN PERIL Naeem Jeenah reports from South Africa on the increasing controversy surrounding  World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance scheduled next month in Durban.  The U.N....

July 25, 2001

Download MP3 IS INDUSTRY RUNNING U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY? Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Steven Weiss of the Center for Responsive Politics about Senator Joseph Lieberman’s threat to subpoena Bush Administration officials in order to...

July 24, 2001

Download MP3 INDIGENOUS INPUT AT CLIMATE TALKS Charles Michael Ray reports from Bonn, Germany, on the role a conference of indigenous delegations played in pushing for tougher greenhouse gas emissions standards than those in...

July 23, 2001

Download MP3 INDY MEDIA CENTER RAIDED BY ITALIAN POLICE Patrick Beckett reports from Genoa on the police raid of the Independent Media Center there and the activist headquarters across the street. Journalists were lined...

July 20, 2001

Download MP3 G8 CONVENES IN GENOA AMID CHAOS, CRACKDOWN Patrick Beckett reports from Genoa, Italy, where the Group of Eight meeting of world leaders has been met by tens of thousands of protesters.  By early...

July 19, 2001

Download MP3 ACTIVISTS PRESS FOR STRICTER GREENHOUSE RULES Charles Michael Ray reports from Bonn, Germany, where thousands of activists are pressuring delegates to the World Climate Convention to adopt a treaty even tougher on...

July 18, 2001

Download MP3   KYOTO PROTOCOL IN THE BALANCE Charles Michael Ray reports from the World Climate Convention in Bonn, Germany, where delegates say the outcome this meeting following up on the Kyoto Protocol remains...