Human rights.

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Hour 1: No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway – Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd. Clear Channel has become the symbol of media consolidation, growing from a small-time operator of 40 stations to the nation’s largest radio station…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Part I of Democracy Now! s Special: Legendary Civil Rights Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the civil rights movement, in jails, in rallies, the sound was a way of announcing a community and anybody who walked toward you, including the police, would be walking into your sound, and they would get to you…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    U.S. chains & shackles naked detainees to the ceiling in Afghanistan: Is the U.S. using torture? ; Bush delays plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace plan: Israeli forces kill over 60 Palestinians since Feb. 15; Former FBI chief calls for the Supreme Court to halt the execution of Delma Banks in Texas: We talk to Banks mother…

  • Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights/ Dr. Edward Said

    Dr. Edward Said is known as both a scholar of modern literature and theory and an expert on international and Middle Eastern politics. Here he discusses “Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights.” Broadcast on KPFK’s Morning Show March 11 and March 12, 2003. Recorded by Ayesha Kahn, KPFK Volunteer.

  • Democracy Now! December 10, 2002

    Today on International Human Rights Day, hundreds of church leaders are marching on the United Nations to call for peace: we talk to Martin Luther King s mentor and civil rights leader, Rev. James Lawson about the role of Christian teaching and the Church in a non-violent peace movement.; Talk-back to war: people call in…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    Hour 1 :: Anti-war protesters plan for massive civil disobedience in Washington next week; Immigrant rights groups prepare for a fourth round of mass deportations of Pakistani detainees; Police in Montpelier, Vt. photograph student protesters & ask for surveillance help from the local media: Meanwhile in Minnesota, law enforcement identifies student anti-war group as possible…

  • Democracy Now! May 3, 2002

    Report on Manger Square and trapped Palestinians in Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ; Human Rights Watch Report On Communal Violence In Gujarat ; Activist COMEDIAN RENO Recounts Her Days After September 11th |9:01-9:06 Headlines: 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break MUSIC 6: BREATH OF A SPIRITUAL – Langston Hughes The Voice of Langston Hughes…

  • Democracy Now! May 6, 2002

    BURMESE AUNG SUNG SUU KYI, IS RELEASED ; CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: SIEGE NEAR AN END? ; WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT: THE PENTAGON VS. ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS ; PART 2: COMEDIAN-ACTIVIST, RENO. |NEWS HEADLINES Music: We Shall Not Be Moved – Sweet Honey in the Rock, Still The Same Me (Rounder Kids CD). NOBEL PEACE PRIZE…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2002

    Israeli troops refuse to help survivors in Jenin ; UNdescribes even worse destruction ; Was Washington behind military coup in Venezuela?; HELEN CALDICOTT today on The New Nuclear Danger. |9:01-9:20 AS ISRAELI TROOPS REFUSE TO HELP RESCUE SURVIVORS BURIED ALIVE IN JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, THE COMMISSIONER GENERAL OF THE UNS MAIN BODY IN THE OCCUPIED…

  • Democracy Now! April 19, 2002

    Massacre in Jenin Refugee Camp ; MOTHER AGAPIA, a nun outside Jerusalem and sister of George Stephanopoulos ; coalition of activists in DC; discussion with leaders A20 Mobilization. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:15 A LIVE REPORT FROM THE THIRD GROUND ZERO: A MASSACRE REVEALED AS PALESTINIANS SEARCH FOR THEIR LOVED ONES AMIDST…