Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt; Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor; Shopping with Conscience Labor Campaign

Program Title:
Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt; Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor; Shopping with Conscience Labor Campaign
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PRA Archive #: 
PZ0342.039
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--Iraqi Official Escapes Assassination Attempt Unidentified gunmen hurled hand grenades at an official representing Saddam Hussein at a religious ceremony. GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now Producer in Baghdad. --Crackdowns in Indonesia, East Timor Thousands of students have taken to the streets today in Dili, the capital of East Timor, to demand an investigation into the massacre of at least 50 people and the torture of scores more by the occupying Indonesian forces around the village of Alas. GUEST: Constancio Pinto, leader of the Timorese undergrund, and co-author with Matthew Jardine of teh BOOK: EAST TIMOR'S UNFINISHED STRUGGLE: INSIDE THE TIMORESE RESISTANCE. GUST: Carmel Budiarg, former plitical prisoner in Indonesia and head of TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign and author of BOOK: SURVIVING INDONESIA'S GULAG. --Shopping with Csnscience Labor Campaign The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year in the US. A holiday message -- from a NIKE sweatshop in El Salvador. SUEST: Charlie Kernigan, Director of the National Labor Committee. GUEST: Julia Esmeralda Pleites, former worker at teh Formsa Textiles factory in San Bartolo, El Salvador

Date Recorded on: 
November 24, 1998
Date Broadcast on: 
November 24, 1998
Item duration: 
59:00
Distributor: 
WPFW; Julie Drizin, Amy Goodman; November 24, 1998
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