BRAZIL

  • Democracy Now! October 28, 2002

    Lula Wins!: Worker s Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins in a landslide to become Brazil s first working class leader; Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002: Less than two weeks before election day, the populist Democrat from Minnesota dies with seven others in a plane crash; Iraq Journal: US activists take to the streets…

  • Democracy Now! October 4, 2002

    U.S. Preemptive Strike & Assassination Plans from Cuba to Iraq: JFK s legal counsel Ted Sorensen debates Cuba historian Jane Franklin; Will Lula win? The barons of international finance hold their breath as Brazilians go to the polls |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:09 Excerpt from a new documentary film called…

  • Democracy Now! October 7, 2002

    Lula Takes Big Lead in Brazil: Leftist candidate from the Workers Party narrowly misses 50 percent vote forcing presidential run-off; Not In Our Name: More than 20,000 gather in New York s Central Park. We hear from Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), director Mira Nair, actor Tim Robbins, hip-hop poet Saul Williams and Afghan-American Shokriea Yaghi,…

  • Democracy Now! January 3, 2003

    We go to the Iraqi-Turkish border for a report on a Halliburton-run military base: how Dick Cheney s former company is making millions on the war on terror ; Venezuela & Brazil, an axis of good? Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez gains support from Lula, Brazil s new president; The Stealth Crusade : an investigative report…

  • Democracy Now! August 9, 2002

    ACTIVISTS DISRUPT CHENEY S SPEECH ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY/IMF ANNOUNCES IT WILL LEND BRAZIL $30 BILLION |The International Monetary Fund Will Lend Brazil $30 Billion: as Treasury Secretary Paul O Neill ends his Latin America tour, the IMF will lend debt-laden Brazil more than it has ever provided any other country. The Bush Administration s Plans…

  • Democracy Now! January 25, 2002

    THE LAW OF THE FIST: NEW YORK POLICE VOW TO CRUSH PROTESTS AGAINST THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ; BRAZIL GEARS UP FOR THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM GUEST: MAIZA MENDOZA ; SINGING TO BREAK THE SILENCE: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGER-SONGWRITER-ACTIVIST, DAR WILLIAMS. Host: Amy Goodman. |That was Philadelphia, at the Republican National Convention, this is New…

  • Democracy Now! August 28, 2001

    BRAZILIAN PHOTOJOURNALIST SEBASTIAO SALGADO AND URUGUAYAN WRITER EDUARDO GALEANO ON THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND POLITICS [Replay of DN! May 28, 2001] |Today, we continue our series on Art and Revolution with two giants of literature and politics, Sabastiao Salgado and Eduardo Galeano. Perhaps more than any other living photographer, Sabastiao Salgado’s images of the…

  • This Way Out: The International Gay & Lesbian Radio Magazine: No. 496

    (10:30 Minutes) Newswrap: International and local stories including updates on Bill Clinton – first U.S. president to attend a lesbigay civil rights event; sexual assault trial of former Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana; Brazil; Belgium; South Korea; Israel’s High Court; “Ellen”; “In & Out”. (4:15 Minutes) County judge in Portland, Ore has ruled a city ordinance…