Monthly Archive: August 2002

August 30, 2002

Download Audio Marches Planned in Johannesburg This Weekend  (3:13) As thousands of environmentalist activists prepare to march in Johannesburg this weekend to demand action to save the planet, negotiators at the UN Earth Summit are...

August 29, 2002

Download MP3 Environmental Groups Sue US Government The United States has received much criticism at the UN Earth Summit underway in Johannesburg. Today US Congressman Dennis Kucinich lay into the Bush Administration for their...

August 28, 2002

Download MP3 UN Earth Summit Underway in Johannesburg (4:49) Environmentalists expressed outrage yesterday as the United States, Saudi Arabia and other nations at the UN summit for Sustainable Development worked to water down promises...

August 27, 2002

Download MP3 Saudis Meet with Bush about Iraq   (4:13) The Associated Press is reporting that there were more air strikes today by US and British warplanes in the no-fly zones over Iraq. The US-European...

August 26, 2002

Download MP3 CA Farm Workers March for Just Negotiations (3:36) In 1966 Cesar Chavez and the newly founded United Farm Workers marched 150 miles from a small farming town in California to the state?s...

August 23, 2002

Download MP3 Secret Court: FBI Lied  (3:04) Civil Libertarians’ worst fears were confirmed late yesterday when the country’s most secretive court issued its first-ever public opinion. The top secret “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court” says the...

August 22, 2002

Download MP3 Bush’s Bright Idea for Wildfires (2:46) President Bush is expected to propose making it easier for the timber industry to thin national forests. An administration official says the president will announce the...

August 21, 2002

Download MP3 Cynthia McKinney Loses Re-Election Bid  (3:46) Georgia voters have sent two of their most outspoken elected officials packing by wide margins, as Representatives Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr lost re-election bids by wide...

August 20, 2002

Download MP3 Partial Israeli Pullout – Palestinians Skeptical  (4:30) Early this morning the Israeli Defense Forces commenced a small-scale withdrawal from Bethlehem to the outskirts of the city where they now maintain a heavily reinforced...

August 19, 2002

Download MP3 15,000 March in DC to Demand Reparations (4:25) This past Saturday over 15,000 people rallied on the steps of the Capitol in Washington DC in the first ever Millions For Reparations March....