POLICE
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Democracy Now! June 19, 2003
More than 300 Police Officers Take to the Streets in Benton Harbor Michigan to Control Rioting; The Rosenberg Execution 50 Years Later |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines In Benton Harbor Michigan yesterday more than 300 police officers took to the streets following two nights of riots. A state of emergency and curfew has been declared in…
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Democracy Now! May 27, 2003
Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son; As another innocent African immigrant is gunned down by New York police, we interview Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo who was shot to death on February 4, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06…
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Democracy Now! June 3, 2003
Hour 1: Justice Department Report Finds Immigrants with no Ties to Terror Suffered Pattern of Physical and Verbal Abuse in Detention Facilities. The report does not recommend bringing criminal charges; Swiss Police Cut Rope Holding British Activist Hanging From Bridge, Sending Him Falling Dozens of Feet , and Raid the Independent Media Center, Beating Journalists;…
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Democracy Now! June 3, 2003
Justice Department Report Finds Immigrants with no Ties to Terror Suffered Pattern of Physical and Verbal Abuse in Detention Facilities. The report does not recommend bringing criminal charges; Swiss Police Cut Rope Holding British Activist Hanging From Bridge, Sending Him Falling Dozens of Feet , and Raid the Independent Media Center, Beating Journalists; Leaders of…
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Democracy Now! May 19, 2003
Hour 1: The U.S. faces wave of media mergers and unprecedented consolidation if FCC relaxes media ownership rules; Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein speaks out against media ownership deregulation; Indonesian military launches a massive attack on separatist movement in Aceh. Hour 2: Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the…
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Democracy Now! May 19, 2003
Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the Bullet. It s Liberty or Death. It s Freedom for Everybody or Freedom for Nobody : Malcolm X would have been 78 years old today. |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:20: Alberta Spruill, 57, became the fifth New Yorker…
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Democracy Now! May 21, 2003
Hour 1: Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star : As FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is already moving in on DirecTV; Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times 150-Year History?; Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb…
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Democracy Now! May 21, 2003
St. Louis Police Stage a Pre-emptive Strike and Arrest 27 Activists Prior to Demonstration; New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges was booed off the stage and had his mic cut twice as he delivered a graduation speech on war and empire at Rockford College in Illinois |9:00-9:01 Billboard: 9:01-9:06: The activist community in St. Louis…
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Democracy Now! May 27, 2003
Hour 1:Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Calls Israeli Presence in Palestine Occupation, Stunning Lawmakers; Now, the Foreign Ministry is Weighing Lifting a Ban on the Word; Africa s World War One Fueled in Part by Western Countries and Corporations Hour 2: Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My…
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Democracy Now! May 8, 2003
Hour 1: Looks like news, sounds like news but paid for by drug companies: Morley Safer of 60 Minutes introduced hundreds of fake news breaks broadcast on public television; CNN s Aaron Brown and CBS Walter Cronkite may back out after a news expose revealed the scheme; Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund facing massive…