August 17, 2001
Download MP3 WILL COURT CONSIDER NEW EVIDENCE IN MUMIA’S CASE? (3:54) Today in Philadelphia, almost a thousand people gathered outside the courthouse where a hearing was held to determine whether vital new evidence would...
Monthly Archive: August 2001
August 16, 2001
Download MP3 AFTER GENOA, DOCKWORKERS REFUSE ITALIAN CARGO (4:03) The ripples from the massive protests against the G8 summit Genoa and the brutal response of Italian police and security forces continue to be felt...
August 15, 2001
Download MP3 ISRAELIS TANKS SURROUND BEIT JALLAH (2:29) Undercover Israeli soldiers shot dead a member of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction on Wednesday just as Russia and the United States urged both sides to reopen...
August 14, 2001
Download MP3 WESTERN STATES SEEK TO EXPEDITE NEW POWER LINES At this weeks Western Governors Association, energy transmission was high on the agenda. The Governors want to make the creation of new power lines quicker...
August 13, 2001
Download Audio PALESTINIANS STAGE GENERAL STRIKE (4:02) Throughout the Occupied Territories, Palestinians are protesting the Israeli police takeover of the Orient House, the PLOs unofficial headquarters in East Jerusalem, with a general strike. Correspondent Raphael...
August 10, 2001
Download MP3 BUSH SPLITS THE DIFFERENCE ON STEM CELLS (2:57) Gareth Schweitzer reports from Washington, DC on President Bush’s announcement that he would allow limited federal funding for stem cell research. Researchers and patients’ rights advocates...
August 09, 2001
Download MP3 JERUSALEM SUICIDE BOMBING KILLS 13 (4:10) Host Verna-Avery Brown speaks with Free Speech Radio News correspondent Peretz Kidron about Israeli reaction to today’s suicide bombing in Jerusalem which killed thirteen Israelis. The attack,...
August 08, 2001
Download MP3 CANADA MAKES RULES FOR MEDICINAL MARIJUANA Stephen Cooperman reports from Montreal on Canada’s move to become the first country with a set of rules regulating the medicinal use of marijuana. The government was...
August 07, 2001
Download MP3 CALIFORNIA COURT: GUNMAKERS DON’T KILL PEOPLE . . . (2:30) Aaron Glantz reports from San Francisco on a major defeat for gun control advocates, as California’s Supreme Court has ruled that gun...
August 06, 2001
Download MP3 10,000 ISRAELIS MARCH FOR PEACE IN TEL AVIV (3:20) Rafael Krafft reports from Tel Aviv on warnings issued by Israel and the Palestinians which hint at continuing and escalating bloodshed. Israel published a list...
