Big Rigs; Northern Ireland; Police Surveillance
|(14 Minutes) Big Rigs Debate on trucking industry and need for opening more highways. Debate is part of of a massive $175 billion transoportation bill making its way though Congress. GUEST: Michael Scippa, exec. dir. of Citizens for Responsible and Safe Highways. GUEST: Warren Hoemann, VP for policy of the California Trucking Assoc. GUEST: Quentin Lewton, a truck driver. (19 Minutes) Northern Ireland Background on Northern Ireland political history. Extended interview with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. GUEST: Gerry Adams (17 Minutes) Police Surveillance Comeback of police departments spying and harassing political activists. GUEST: Mitzi Watz, journalist in Portland, OR., author of BOOK: POLICING ACTIVISTS: THINK GLOBAL, SPY LOCAL. GUEST: Frank Wilkinson, exec. dir. of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation
Democracy Now! August 12, 1997
PRA Archive #:
PZ0287.386
Date Recorded On:
August 12, 1997
Date Broadcast On:
August 12, 1997
Item Duration:
59:00
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Station: Pacifica National Programming
Program: Democracy Now! August 12, 1997
Series: DEMOCRACY NOW!
Keywords: ADAMS, GERRY, CALIFORNIA TRUCKING ASSOCIATION, CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AND SAFE HIGHWAYS, CONSTITUTION, Economics., GENERAL HISTORY, HOEMANN, WARREN, INDUSTRY AND LABOR, Ireland, LAW, LAW & LEGISLATION, LEWTON, QUENTIN, NATIONAL COMMITTEE AGAINST REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION, POLICE, POLITICAL PARTIES (INTL), Political science., SCIPPA, MICHAEL, SINN FEIN., SURVEILLANCE OF CITIZENS BY GOVERNMENT, TRANSPORTATION, TRUCKS & TRUCKING INDUSTRY, WATZ, MITZI, Wilkinson, Frank.
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