PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Democracy Now! February 18, 2002
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A look at Enron and Argentina and George Bushs theft of the presidential elections of 2000 with investigative journalist Greg Palast. A Presidents Day special. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE-MINUTE MUSIC BREAK 9:07-9:20 THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY: A LOOK AT ENRON, ARGENTINA, AND GEORGE BUSHS THEFT OF THE…