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Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway - Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd.

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20 No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway - Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules June 2nd No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway that s the cry today with the deadline for the FCC vote on new media regulations just days away.

Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

Hour 1: No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway - Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd.

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20 No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway - Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules June 2nd No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway that s the cry today with the deadline for the FCC vote on new media regulations just days away.

Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

Arcata City Council Criminalizes Compliance with USA Patriot Act; Supreme Court Refuses to Hear an Appeal on the Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings for Immigrants Detained after September 11th; Government Investigates Allegations of Abuse in Two Immigration facilities INTRO: Behind the INS Curtain, a report from Noah Reibel; Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two of the

9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:20: More than 100 cities and one state have adopted resolutions condemning the USA Patriot Act. But last month Arcata, California took it a step further. The Arcata City Council adopted a city ordinance that makes cooperation with the Patriot Act a crime.

Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran; A New Report Reveals that the Bush Administration had Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December; You Back the Attack, We ll Bomb Who We Want! - A collection of remixed war posters

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iran yesterday the US will aggressively put down any attempt to install a theocratic regime in Iraq.

Democracy Now! May 28, 2003

Hour 1: Having invaded Iraq, Bush and his Hawks are Now Getting Ready to go for Regime Change in Tehran; A New Report Reveals that the Bush Administration had Planned to Invade Iraq as Early as December; You Back the Attack, We ll Bomb Who We Want!

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iran yesterday the US will aggressively put down any attempt to install a theocratic regime in Iraq.

Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son; As another innocent African immigrant is gunned down by New York police, we interview Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo who was shot to death on February 4, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets

9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:58 : Democracy Now interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son. The family of Ousmane Zongo, who was gunned down by police on Thursday, was preparing yesterday for burial in his native village.

Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Calls Israeli Presence in Palestine Occupation, Stunning Lawmakers; Now, the Foreign Ministry is Weighing Lifting a Ban on the Word; Africa s World War One Fueled in Part by Western Countries and Corporations

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: Israeli Army Radio is reporting the Foreign Ministry is today weighing distributing an internal regulation that will allow Israel's official spokespeople to use the word 'occupation' for the first time. The step follows unprecedented remarks by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Democracy Now! May 26, 2003

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, Part 2: Award-Winning Director/Producer Jamie Doran Alleges a Media Cover-Up of US Complicity in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners

9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:58: Today, part two of our series on a controversial documentary film that has already been broadcast on national television in Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia and been screened by the European Parliament but it wasn t until Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! May 26, 2003

Memorial Day Special: We speak with a group of Ploughshares activists.

8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:25: Today is Memorial Day, the traditional holiday day to honor all US veterans. President Bush is marking the day today by laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, paying special tribute to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. military death toll so far in the invasion and occupation of Iraq is 161.

Democracy Now! May 23, 2003

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death broadcast for the first time ever in the US: eyewitnesses testify that US troops were complicit in the massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War

9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:20: Today, on Democracy Now!, the U.S. broadcast premiere of a documentary film called Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death. The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War.

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