Human rights.

  • Reverend Lucius Walker

    Speech given by Reverend Lucius Walker, founder of the Pastors for Peace Project, on 6.18.98 in San Diego, CA. He talks about the blockade against Cuba, sanctions in Iraq and what he sees as the underlying reason for these policy decisions – namely America’s bid to dominate the world. Walker is the exec. dir. of…

  • Democracy Now! October 14, 1998

    Kosovo; Hate Crimes; IMF With Walden Belo |(14 Minutes) Kosovo As NATO authorizes air strikes on Serbian targets, Radical British Parliamentarian Tony Benn blasts the US and Britain as violators of international law. GUEST: Tony Benn, is a Labor Pary Member of Parliament in Britain and has just written a letter to several former heads…

  • Democracy Now! September 11, 1998

    Clinton Issues; Anniversary of Chile Coup; Unocal |(33 Minutes) Clinton Issues Lawyers familiar with Kenneth Starr’s report to Congress investigating the president say the report contains evidence that Clinton committed perjery, obsructed justice, tampered with witnesses and abused the power of his office. GUEST: Jamie Raskin, is a prof. of Constitutional Law at American University.…

  • Democracy Now! October 6, 1998

    Amnesty Report on US Human Rights Abuses |(50 Minutes) Amnesty Report on US Human Rights Torture, electoshock, and chain-gangs. Sadaam Hussein’s Iraq? No, the United States of America. While the US boasts of being the freest, most democratic country in teh world, the Secretary General of Amnesty International paints a picture of the other America,…

  • Democracy Now! September 17, 1997

    Nigeria Advocacy Day; Northern Ireland Peace Talks |(33 Minutes) Nigeria Advocacy Day Focus on Nigeria and the fight against the government of General Soni Abacha. This week in Washington, Nigerian democracy activists lobbied Congressmembers. Today, NY city council is holding hearings on a bid to rename the street where the Nigerian consulate is located after…

  • Democracy Now! September 23, 1997

    Smithsonian Controversy; Nike and Human Rights Abuses; Korea |(14 Minutes) Smithsonian Controversy 46 members of Congress last wek wrote to teh Smithsonian Institution in support of an exhibition on sweatshops at the National Museum of American History. The show is called Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dialogue on American Sweatshops 1820- to…

  • Democracy Now! September 17, 1998

    Bankruptcy Act; Debate on the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act / Human Rights Informantion Act; Iran/Afghanistan Conflict |(14 Miutes) Bankruptcy Act A debate on the consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act, backed by corporate giants Mastercard and Visa. If passed, it will make it more difficult to declare fresh-start bankruptcy. GUEST: Phil Corwin, partner at Federal Legislation…

  • Democracy Now! August 15, 1997

    NY Torture; India/Pakistan Independence; US Policy and Albania |(9 Minutes) NY Torture Update on NY police department after allegations by Abner Louima that officers beat and sodomized him. GUEST: Abner Louima, alleged victim of beating. GUEST: Dr. Jean Claude Compas, personal physician of Abner Louima. GUEST: Mrs. Vincent, worships at same church as Louima (24…

  • Democracy Now! September 2, 1997

    Landmines; Music Business |(14 Minutes) Landmines Story on delegation in Oslo, Norway to begin talks on a treaty for a global ban on anti-personnel land mines. GUEST: Mary Wareham, coordinator of the US Campaign to Ban Landmines. GUEST: Noel Stott, from South African campaign to ban landmines. (38 Minutes) Music Business Discussion on the state…