Category: 2001

August 06, 2001

Download MP3 10,000 ISRAELIS MARCH FOR PEACE IN TEL AVIV  (3:20) Rafael Krafft reports from Tel Aviv on warnings issued by Israel and the Palestinians which hint at continuing and escalating bloodshed.  Israel published a list...

August 03, 2001

Download MP3 WHO’LL GET STUCK WITH BUSH’S BILL OF RIGHTS? (3:39) Host Verna-Brown with Dr. Quentin Young of Physicians for a National Health Program about the Bush-backed Patients’ Bill of Rights which passed out...

August 02, 2001

Download MP3 HOUSE PASSES BUSH ENERGY PLAN, OK’S ARCTIC OIL DRILLING (2:04) Tera Donner reports from Washington, DC on the U.S. House of Representatives middle-of-the-night vote to allow oil and gas drilling in the...

August 01, 2001

Download MP3 file HOUSE DEBATES BUSH ENERGY PLAN (3:54) Kata Mester reports on today’s beginning of the House debate on President George W. Bush’s energy Plan.  Among its provisions, the plan would give more than...

July 31, 2001

Download MP3 file ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE ESCALATES;  NO PEACE IN SIGHT (5:21) Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Free Speech Radio News Jerusalem correspondent Peretz Kidron on the escalating attacks in to Palestinian-controlled territory by the Israeli...

July 30, 2001

Download MP3 VIEQUES VOTES FOR IMMEDIATE HALT TO U.S. BOMBING (4:16) Shannon Novak reports on yesterday’s referendum in Vieques, where over seventy percent of the ballots cast called for the immediate end of US...

July 27, 2001

Download MP3 14 YEAR-OLD MURDERER SENTENCED TO 28 YEARS IN ADULT PRISON Mitch Perry reports from Tampa on the case of Nathan Brazill, a 14 year-old tried as an adult for shooting to death...

July 26, 2001

Download MP3 U.N. CONFERENCE ON RACISM IN PERIL Naeem Jeenah reports from South Africa on the increasing controversy surrounding  World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance scheduled next month in Durban.  The U.N....

July 25, 2001

Download MP3 IS INDUSTRY RUNNING U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY? Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Steven Weiss of the Center for Responsive Politics about Senator Joseph Lieberman’s threat to subpoena Bush Administration officials in order to...

July 24, 2001

Download MP3 INDIGENOUS INPUT AT CLIMATE TALKS Charles Michael Ray reports from Bonn, Germany, on the role a conference of indigenous delegations played in pushing for tougher greenhouse gas emissions standards than those in...