Human rights.

  • Democracy Now! April 17, 2002

    Marwan Barghouti, is captured by the Israeli military; portions of a rare interview with him. Occupied Territories ;the war in Afghanistan rages on ; Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch, Paying for the Talibans Crimes; : Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan. interview with an Afghan man bombed…

  • Democracy Now! February 25, 2002

    The Forbidden Truth: an explosive new book published in France that has revealed extraordinary details about Bush, oil and Washington’s secret negotiations with the Taliban : the Angolan government has displayed the dead body of CIA-sponsored, Reagan-backed rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, who received millions of dollars from Washington in covert aid |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES STORY: COLOMBIAN…

  • Democracy Now! February 26, 2002

    An hour with activist-comedian DICK GREGORY, live from our firehouse studio. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BREAK 9:07-9:20 DICK GREGORY LIVE FROM DEMOCRACY NOW! He was jailed and beaten by Birmingham police for parading without a permit in 1963. He took a bullet in the knee while trying to calm a crowd during the Watts…

  • Democracy Now! February 27, 2002

    Crackdown on civil liberties continues with more than a thousand Arab and south-Asian nationals detained indefinitely without trial, charge, or legal rights : look at one of the disappeared: A Muslim religious leader who has been held in solitary confinement for more than two months : should the government play matchmaker? A day after Bush…

  • Democracy Now! February 28, 2002

    AUDIO TOUR THROUGH 50 YEARS OF PACIFICA HISTORY : Bush administration to spend millions on new computer systems to keep tabs on foreign students and visitors : a history of intelligence and security culture in the activist community from the co-author of the Cointelpro papers. [Network Tranmitter Fund Drive Day] |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES STORY: ISRAELI KNESSET…

  • Democracy Now! March 4, 2002

    Writer, ARUNDHATI ROY, author of The God of Small Things. She faces prison for speaking out against the privatization of rivers and essential resources in India : report on seige in Palestine by Israeli forces. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BREAK 9:07-9:20 INSIDE THE STATE OF SIEGE: ISRAELI TROOPS RAID PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS AND PALESTINIAN…

  • Democracy Now! March 1, 2002

    A federal appeals court overturns the conviction of three officers charged with brutalizing Haitian immigrant Abner Louima : police brutality, with Iris Baez, mother of a victim of police brutality : President Bush finishes meetings with three African leaders : interview with a South African activist and scholar about apartheid : Colombian government declares a…

  • Democracy Now! March 5, 2002

    COG : acronym for Continuity of Government–a shadow government secretly outside Washington : Secret programs past and present: a look at COINTELPRO : FRED HAMPTON JR., whose father Fred Hampton was assassinated by the Chicago police in 1969. Fred Hampton Jr was just released from prison after serving 9 years for what he says are…

  • Democracy Now! March 6, 2002

    Welfare Reform : Big Military Offensive in Afghanistan : U.S. shadow government of a hundred, living and working secretly outside Washington : a debate on the explosive presidential elections in Zimbabwe. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES STORY: HUNDREDS OF POOR PEOPLE STORM THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION Hundreds of people from across the country stormed the headquarters of the ultra-conservative…

  • Democracy Now! March 7, 2002

    Hundreds of poor people storm the headquarters of the Heritage Foundation and demand that one of the countrys leading conservatives take a walk in povertys shoes. Disneys stocks rise as Ted Koppel fights for Nightlines survival on Disneys ABC, threatened by a possible Letterman takeover. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BREAK 9:07-9:20 ENTERTAINMENT TAKES OVER…