ACTIVISM

  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Democracy Now! Airs Excerpts from the The Panama Deception an Academy Award-Winning Documentary Which Tells the Story of the December 1989 U.S. Invasion of Panama. The documentary uncovers the hidden reasons for this internationally condemned attack and provides a devastating critique of the mainstream media and its complicity with the official government line.…

  • Democracy Now! June 16, 2003

    Iranian Student Protests Continue as the UN s Nuclear Agency Calls on Iran to Allow Inspections. While President Bush praises the anti-government student protests in Tehran, demonstrators are critical of the U.S., the U.S.-backed monarchists as well as the current Iranian government; Cindy Corrie Speaks at Evergreen State College Commencement to the Classmates of her…

  • Democracy Now! June 11, 2003

    As Attacks on US Soldiers Continue in Iraq We Talk to Robert Fisk who Just Returned from Fallujah. Britain Independent s chief foreign correspondent discusses the growing revolt among Iraqis, the so-called road map to peace in the Middle East and on his meeting with Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Rantissi; Shock Radio/TV Host Michael Savage…

  • Democracy Now! June 13, 2003

    Senate Finance Committee OKs Senior Prescription Drug Bill. Senior groups say the bill aids pharmaceutical industry without adequately covering seniors; Is Depleted Uranium Creating a New Nuclear Danger in Iraq? A debate on DU between Nuclear Policy Research Institute President Helen Caldicott, radiation physicist Geoffrey Sea and Dr. Thomas Fasy; Former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner…

  • Democracy Now! June 23, 2003

    Protesting the War on Women and the War on Terror. As President Bush and Karl Rove launch the largest political fundraising campaign in history, women s rights advocates join forces with the peace movement to protest today s fundraiser in NYC; USDA opens $3 million dollar biotech conference in Sacramento; agriculture ministers from over 100…

  • Democracy Now! June 11, 2003

    Hour 1: US Occupation Forces Draw up New Rules for Press Censorship of Iraqi Media. Officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to stifle intemperate speech, but Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein are protesting the decision; The U.S. and U.N. Refuse to Provide Protection for Witnesses of…

  • Democracy Now! June 3, 2003

    Over the Chants of Protesters The FCC Votes to Unleash the Largest Wave of Media Consolidation in U.S. History; Nurse Emily Lyons, victim of a 1998 abortion clinic bombing, speaks about the capture of Eric Rudolph. I lost my left eye, damaged my right eye, broke the right side of my face, first, second and…

  • Democracy Now! June 2, 2003

    Democracy Now! Goes Live to the FCC Vote on Rules Governing Media Consolidation. FCC members prepare the way for the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history; The whole thing reeks of conflict of interest. To begin the catalog of corruption here, you would have to do a 24-hour marathon. Robert McChesney, author of…

  • Democracy Now! April 9, 2003

    Looting breaks out near Baghdad as the presence of the Iraqi government diminishes: We talk to AFP reporter Ezzadin Said in the Palestine Hotel; 80 dissidents arrested in Cuba in most widespread political crackdown since the 1960s: A debate between the Cuban embassy and the wife of a jailed journalist. Hour 2: CIA reports INC…

  • Democracy Now! June 5, 2003

    Hour 1: The Weather Underground: A Look Back at the Antiwar Activists Who Met Violence with Violence. A conversation with Weather Underground co-founder Mark Rudd on why he went underground for 7 years and has since renounced violence. A new documentary which tells the story of the militant antiwar group holds its premiere run in…