Democracy Now! November 5, 1998

Post Election Roundtable; Nicaragua Aid
|(33 Minutes) Post Election Roundtable Discussion of progressive issues following yesterday’s election. GUEST: Tammy Baldwin, Congresswoman-elect from Madison, WI, and first openly gay woman to be elected to Congress. GUEST: Van Jones, Exec. Dir. of the Bay Area Police Watch, from San Francisco. GUEST: Elaine Bernard, Dir. of Harvard University’s Trade Union Program. GUEST: Alan Nairn, Human rights activist and journalist. (17 Minutes) Nicaragua Aid As President Arnoldo Aleman makes international pleas for hurricane relief for Nicaragua, non-governmental organizations charge him with holding up aid to the poor. GUEST: Myrna Cunningham, President of the University for the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. GUEST: Vivian Stromburg, Exec. Dir. of “Madre” a sisterhood organization working with women and children’s issues in the US and Central America. GUEST: Eduardo Gamez, Councilman for the city of Tipitapa and coordinator of the Upper West Side-Tipitapa Sister City project, a NY solidarity group whose aid is being held up by the Nicaraguan government. GUEST: Donna Katzen, Coordinator of the uPper West Side-Tipitapa Sister City Project. Madre-212-627-0444