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  • Democracy Now! March 14, 2003

    Hour 1: Will the Pentagon target journalists in Iraq? An interview with veteran BBC war correspondent Kate Adie ; Oakland police beat reporters and young people of color at otherwise peaceful rally: San Francisco Bay View journalist Ra shida Askey says police jumped her, slammed her head to the ground and beat her; San Francisco…

  • Democracy Now! March 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain will deploy troops with or without UN backing: we talk to a Conservative Party MP who opposes war and former Labour Party Chair Tony Benn; Uniting For Peace : can the UN General Assembly trump the Security Council by invoking a little-known resolution, and stop the war?;…

  • Cornel West : Speech At Mario Savio Awards Ceremony, November 15, 2001.

    Speech (keynote address) given by activist, theologian, and scholar Dr. Cornel West at the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award ceremony which took place on November 15, 2001 in the Pauley Ballroom at U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Cornel West spoke on “Progressive Politics In These Times: From Vision to Action” [ a video…

  • Democracy Now! September 18, 2001

    DEATH SQUAD DEFENDER NAMED US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN : SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN CALL FOR TOLERANCE, URGE AN END TO US PREPARATION FOR WAR. |NEWS HEADLINES DEATH SQUAD DEFENDER NAMED US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN This weekend the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 14-3 to confirm the nomination of John Negroponte to be the US…

  • Democracy Now! September 17, 2001

    PEOPLE FLEE AFGHANISTAN FEARING US ATTACK : SOUNDS OF THE STREET; ACTIVISTS MOURN THE DEAD WHILE DENOUNCING THE MARCH TO WAR AND ATTACKS ON MUSLIM AND ARAB AMERICANS : EUROPEAN NATIONS WORRY ABOUT UNITED STATE’S HEADLONG MARCH TO WAR. |NEWS HEADLINES PEOPLE FLEE AFGHANISTAN FEARING US ATTACK Officials from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement have started…

  • Democracy Now! September 7, 2001

    UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban draws to a close as delegates try to salvage a workable agreement in the face of opposition from the US and Europe over the occupied territories and slavery : Interview with a leading member African National Congress; and an Afro-Colombian woman speaks out on the racial dimensions of…

  • Democracy Now! September 5, 2001

    FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE [Replay DN! December 29, 2000] |FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE Nearly 38 years after James Meredith struggled against racism to enter the University of Mississippi, students have elected the school’s first black student body president. Nick Lott beat his white opponent by more than 100 votes. But despite this, the…

  • Democracy Now! September 6, 2001

    South Africa attempts to forge a compromise over language on Israel and Palestine at the UN World Racism Conference as fallout continues over the US withdrawal from the conference.  Well talk to Reverend Jesse Jackson and Actor and civil rights activist Danny Glover; and a speech by South African Bishop Desmond Tutu on religion, racism,…

  • Democracy Now! September 5, 2001

    AT THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS A EUROPEAN UNION APOLOGY FOR CENTURUES OF SLAVERY;  SENIOR DIPLOMATS CHARGE THAT SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS, NOT ISRAEL, IS  THE  REAL REASON FOR THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL; AND WELL LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE OF INDIAS DALIT, OR UNTOUCHABLE CASTE, FOR AN END TO WHAT THEY SAY IS SYSTEM…

  • Democracy Now! September 4, 2001

    The U.S. withdraws, sort of, from the UN World Conference Against Racism in protest of criticism over Israels treatment of the Palestinians. We go live to Durban, South Africa, with reactions from Jesse Jackson, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, and human rights groups from around the world. |9:01-9:06 HEADLINES 9:06-9:07 ONE MINUTE MUSIC BREAK…