Africa
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Democracy Now! February 2, 1999
Death in the Niger Delta; Ecuadorian Rainforest Communities Sue Texaco; Noam Chomsky on the New World Order |Death in the Niger Delta At least 19 people were killed and another 10 were seriouslyinjured in the Niger Delta this weekend when Nigerian military forces opened fire on a group of protesters at a shell oil facility.…
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Democracy Now! February 10, 1999
The Africa Trade Bill: Reading the Small Print; Christopher Hitchens on Iraq; New York Rallies Against Police Brutality |The Africa Trade Bill: Reading the Small Print The Africa Trade Bill is due to be marked up this week by the House International Affairs Committee. Opponents to the bill charge that it will only imporve the…
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Democracy Now! February 11, 1999
Chevron Under Fire; Sweatshop Reports |(23 Minutes) Chevron Under Fire The recent wave of repression and violence by the Nigerian military in the Niger Delta that has left scores of villagers dead has sparked worldwide attention. So has the role of oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and the US multinational Chevron in the…
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Kwame Ture Remembered
(55 Minutes) Kwame Ture Remmebered From Freedom Rider to SNCC Chariman, Black Panther to Pan-Africanist leader. Close friends remember the life and legacy of a true revolutionary: the man formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, buried this weekend in Africa. GUEST: Cleveland Sellers, Assoc. Dir. of African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. GUEST:…
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Democracy Now! January 27, 1999
Impeachment-Studs Terkel; Multinational Monitor’s 10 Worst Corporations of 1998; Chevron and Nigeria |(14 Minutes) Impeachment – Studs Terkel GUEST: Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer-winning author talks about impeachment. (20 Minutes) Multinational Monitor’s 10 Worst Corporations of 1998 Multinational Monitor magazine reports that 1998 was a record year for corporate crime and abuse that includes death without…
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Democracy Now! October 13, 1998
Activists Plan to Sue Chevron; Africans in America |(33 Minutes) Activists Plan to Sue Chevron Lawyers for Nigerian Himan rights activists are preparing to file a lawsuit in the US afainst Chevron Corporation, alleging that the US oil giant was complicit in the deaths of two protesters who were killed on a Cheron oil barge…
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Democracy Now! September 30, 1998
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Democracy Now! October 1, 1998
All Things Censored; Nigeria; War in the Delta |(4 Minutes) All Things Censored In Pennsylvania , the regulation that bans media visits to prisoners has been dubbed the Mumia rule. Democracy Now is continuing series in support of Free Speech titled All Things Censored. GUEST: Dorothy Allison, author of BOOK: BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA. (10…