Monthly Archive: May 2002

Download MP3 Carter Calls for an End to Cuban Embargo (5:06) Speaking in Spanish in a live, uncensored broadcast, Jimmy Carter appealed for America to drop its embargo, and for the Cuba government to...

Download MP3 Carter Goes to Cuba Tonight, Former President Jimmy Carter will deliver a historic address live on Cuban television. Yesterday Carter, visited a biotechnology center at the invitation of the government.  His planned visit...

Download MP3 Peace Rally in Israel (4:10) In the biggest rally inside Israel  during nearly 20 months of Palestinian-Israeli violence close to 100,000 Israelis crowded Tel Aviv’s central square Saturday night challenging their government’s occupation...

Download MP3 38 Day Seige at the Church of the Nativity Over (3:30) The 13 Palestinians on Israel’s most-wanted list were flown to Cyprus, the first stop in an exile that will take them...

Download MP3 Is the Stand-off Over at the Church of the Nativity? (3:21) The European Union has agreed to a sponsor a deal aimed at ending the standoff at the Church of the Nativity...

Download MP3 More Bombings in the Middle East Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Free Speech Radio News Correspondent Awad Duades in Ramallah. House Votes for Nuclear Waste Dump Site at Yucca Mountain The House...

Download MP3 Negotiations Stall in Bethlehem (3:28) The U.N. General Assembly scheduled an emergency session today as a draft resolution introduced by Sudan on behalf of the Arab Group of nations and by South...

Download MP3 Aung San Suu Kyi Free The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been released from nearly 20 months of house arrest by the military junta who has power in Burma....

Download MP3 Still No UN Mission to Jenin The UN Security Council remains deadlocked today over Israel’s rejection of a fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp, as Palestinians reject a U.S.-backed proposal for...

Download MP3 International Activists Inside the Church of the Nativity (1:43) This evening, a group of 24 international peace activists rushed past Israeli Defense Force roadblocks and entered Bethlehem’s Manger Square. 13 activists were...