Category: 2001

July 23, 2001

Download MP3 INDY MEDIA CENTER RAIDED BY ITALIAN POLICE Patrick Beckett reports from Genoa on the police raid of the Independent Media Center there and the activist headquarters across the street. Journalists were lined...

July 20, 2001

Download MP3 G8 CONVENES IN GENOA AMID CHAOS, CRACKDOWN Patrick Beckett reports from Genoa, Italy, where the Group of Eight meeting of world leaders has been met by tens of thousands of protesters.  By early...

July 19, 2001

Download MP3 ACTIVISTS PRESS FOR STRICTER GREENHOUSE RULES Charles Michael Ray reports from Bonn, Germany, where thousands of activists are pressuring delegates to the World Climate Convention to adopt a treaty even tougher on...

July 18, 2001

Download MP3   KYOTO PROTOCOL IN THE BALANCE Charles Michael Ray reports from the World Climate Convention in Bonn, Germany, where delegates say the outcome this meeting following up on the Kyoto Protocol remains...

July 17, 2001

Download MP3 THE DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION POLICY Robin Urevich reports from Los Angeles on the response of immigrants and immigrants rights activists to the competing proposals to overhaul U.S. immigration policy.  The Presidents of both...

July 16, 2001

Download MP3 RUSSIA & CHINA GET FRIENDLY Phil Ittner reports from Moscow on today’s signing of a strategic friendship pact between Russia and China.  Both say the treaty of friendship and cooperation is not a...

July 13, 2001

Download MP3 NOTORIOUS LOUIMA CASE COMES TO A CLOSE Geoff Brady reports on the $8.75 million settlement in the civil rights case brought by Abner Louima.  The settlement closes one of the most notorious examples...

July 12, 2001

Download MP3 NAVY DROPS PLANS TO BOMB TEXAS Robert Knight reports that the Navy has scrapped its plan to moving its bombing range from the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques to Padre Island in...

July 11, 2001

Download MP3 LOUIMA SUIT YIELDS NINE MILLION DOLLARS, BUT FEW REFORMS Geoff Brady reports from New York on the 9 million dollar settlement reached in the civil rights lawsuit filed by Haitian immigrant Abner...

July 10, 2001

Download MP3   SHOULD THE SALVATION ARMY BE ALLOWED TO DISCRIMINATE Ellen Ratner reports from Washington on a front page story in today’s Washington Post on the Salvation Army which states the Bush administration...