Category: 2000

Download Audio US Military Once Again Helps Indonesia The US military has quietly resumed cooperation with the Indonesian military after cutting off ties last year during the violent repression in East Timor. American officials...

Download Audio IMPORTANT TECHNICAL NOTICE: This week’s story about pharmaceuticals in Buenos Aires does not contain voice over translations. Stations wishing to provide such translations may wish to use the following script for help...

Download Audio General Strike in South Africa South Africa’s powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions, which helped topple apartheid, are now turning their attention to global trade. About half of the country’s workers...

Download Audio Argentinean Workers Go on Strike Organized labor in Argentina began a national strike today to protest new laws that, activists say, are anti-worker. The strike is the latest in a string of...

Download Audio Latinos and the Labor Movement Some eight thousand janitors in Los Angeles – mostly immigrants – ended a three-week-long strike. They won hefty pay increases and massive public support. Robin Urevich looks...

Download Audio Jailed Mexican Environmentalist Wins Prestigious Award A jailed Mexican farmer who led anti-logging protests won the prestigious Goldman environmental prize earlier this month. Although Rodolfo Montiel is gaining an international profile, other...

Download Audio The world-wide campaign to fight globalization takes the struggle to Washington D.C. Robin Urevich and Alison Hawkes report from the nation’s capital. Refugees from Kosova, once met with open arms by various...

Download Audio Paris Police Beat Pregnant Arab Woman In a scene reminiscent of the 1991 LAPD beating of black motorist Rodney King, a French policeman is captured on video beating a pregnant Arab woman....

Download Audio WBAI Reporter Beaten and Arrested at Dorismund Funeral The funeral for 26-year-old Patrick Dorismund, the latest unarmed black man shot dead by New York City Police, turned violent last weekend as police...

Download Audio   Wall Street goes to India Leaders of some of America’s biggest corporations headed to India with President Clinton this week. The delegation was met with Protests, and Clinton was burned in...