August 11, 2000
Download Audio CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE D.N.C. Organizers of the upcoming Democratic National Convention protests in Los Angeles will ask a federal judge to guarantee their free speech rights against police raids and surveillance....
Category: 2000
July 28, 2000
Download Audio Police, Protesters Clash in Minneapolis over Genetically Modified Animals The movement against the engineering and patenting of life continues to have a worldwide impact. Under pressure from bioengineering opponents, the Health Ministers...
July 21, 2000
Download Audio Is the IMF at the Root of Pipeline Spills That Kill Hundreds of Nigerian People? Loans from the International Monetary Fund – or IMF – to developing countries often come with conditions...
July 14, 2000
Download Audio DOE: Plutonium Went into the Air, But That’s Okay The Department of Energy this week announced that radioactive plutonium was released into the air from last month’s fire on the Hanford nuclear...
July 7, 2000
Download Audio Right Wing PAN Wins Mexican Election, Pledges to Fight Corruption Mexico’s president-elect Vicente Fox has announced his plans for sweeping reforms at the federal level. In Baja California where his party has...
June 30, 2000
Download Audio Another Forest Fire Burns Nuclear Waste Hundreds of firefighters are battling a wildfire on the Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington state, where flames have forced the evacuation of thousands of people....
June 23, 2000
Download Audio Bush Refuses to Stop Execution of Possibly Innocent Man Gary Graham, also known as Shaka Sankofa appears headed for the death chamber. Graham’s defenders point to the incompetence of his court appointed...
June 15, 2000
Download Audio 20,000 UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS RALLY FOR AMNESTY THE AFL-CIO KICKED OFF A CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS THIS WEEK. A CROWD OF CLOSE TO TWENTY THOUSAND JAMMED THE L.A. COLISEUM AS THE LABOR...
June 9, 2000
Download Audio TANKERS SPILLS 50,000 GALLONS OF OIL INTO BOSTON HARBOR A TUGBOAT STRUCK AND RUPTURED A TANKER, DUMPING AN ESTIMATED FIFTY THOUSAND GALLONS OF HEATING OIL INTO BOSTON HARBOR. DAVID GOODMAN HAS THIS...
June 2, 2000
Download Audio 50 Thousand March Against IMF in Argentina The International Monetary Fund was the target of another protest demonstration this week, as about 50 thousand Argentines turned out in Buenos Aires to denounce...
