Efforts Underway to Register Hip Hop Generation

In an effort to increase participation on election day, a number of Get out the Vote efforts are under way to increase participation among those who participate the least. Rock the Vote to get youth to register, a 24 state voter registration drive focused on unmarried women, and Respect my Vote, an effort to register young people ages 18 - 29 with out a college education are some examples.  The Respect my Vote drive is an initiative with rapper T.I. and hip hop activists.  FSRN's Karen Miller spoke with Reverend Lenox Yearwood, head of the Hip Hop Caucus. Yearwood launched Vote or Die in 2004. They speak about this year's campaign.  

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President Bush issued a broad re-organization of the nation's intelligence community.  While being briefed on the changes, lawmakers walked out, angry about being left in the dark.  And civil liberties groups reject what they see as an erosion of privacy. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell has more.

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As President Bush touts what he called progress in Iraq today, US oil companies are also making progress in Iraq getting oil – and Dennis Kucinich, and Democrat of Ohio wants to stop it. Kucinich is introducing legislation that would prevent US based oil companies from investing in petroleum resources in Iraq. Currently, US oil companies are developing technical assistance contracts there, which some say is step towards privatization, and would leave US oil companies in control and the Iraqi people shut out of the process. Karen Miller has more

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The Department of Interior announced plans yesterday to begin a process for five year leases to explore offshore oil and natural gas developments in the outer continental shelf.  The move follows the department's announced support for west coast ocean protections earlier this week.  FSRN's Christina Aanestad files this report.

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