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Abortion rights, $1.6 Trillion Tax Cut, Utility Greed |
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by Denise Manzari & Scott Harris, Between The Li
Email: betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (unverified!)
Address: WPKN Bridgeport CT |
03 Feb 2001
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Headlines:
1)1st Bush Executive Order Will Lead to Millions of Unwanted Pregnanted and Botched Abortions
2)Bush's $1.6 Trillion Tax Cut Unfairly Benefits Top 1% of Population Without Stimulating Lagging Economy
3)Utility Greed, Not Power Shortages, Root Cause of Calif.'s Deregulation Crisis
and under-reported news summary |
BETWEEN THE LINES WEEKLY SUMMARY
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\"Between The Lines\" is a weekly radio newsmagazine which offers timely, in-depth interviews with progressive activists engaged in the fight for a more just world. This four-time Associated Press award-winning program covers political and economic topics, and provides our listeners with the information they need to know about today\'s growing social justice movement.
Below you\'ll find a summary of topics and guests covered in this week\'s program, as well as a link to this week\'s program in RealAudio on our Web site. More information on these topics is available at http://www.btlonline.org.
**Please pass along these under-reported news stories and interviews to your friends and colleagues! **
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FOR THE WEEK ENDING Feb. 9, 2001
This week we present Between The Lines\' summary of
under-reported news stories and:
(1)Bush Executive Order Defunds Family Planning Counseling Services Overseas
Interview by Denise Manzari.
Rickie Solinger is an author and historian of reproduction
and welfare politics in the U.S. She discusses how Bush\'s
policy will result in lack of access to contraception
information and an increase in millions of unintended
pregnancies and botched abortions
(2) Economist Asserts $1.6 Trillion Bush Tax Cut Will Unfairly Benefit Top 1% of Population Without Stimulating Lagging Economy
Interview by Scott Harris.
Max Sawicky, senior economist with the Economic Policy
Institute, assesses the Bush tax plan and progressive
alternatives that he asserts could more fairly strengthen
a lagging economy.
(3) Utility Greed, Not Power Shortage, Root Cause of California\'s Deregulation Disaster
Interview by Scott Harris.
Energy activist Harvey Wasserman, author of \"The Last
Energy War: The Battle Over Utility Deregulation\" takes a
critical look at California\'s electric power disaster and
the various remedies offered to repair the damage.
(4) This week\'s summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
-- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting finds that major
U.S. press outlets have blacked out the basic political
motivation of the street battles between Palestinian youth
and Israeli security forces.
-- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush oversaw a massive voter purge
operation prior to last November\'s election that prevented
thousands of African Americans from voting.
-- Chicago Police Department trying to resurrect its \"Red
Squad,\" formerly known as the Subversive Activities Unit,
which kept files on 250,000 political activists and legal
organizations during the 1960s and 70s.
For more information and to hear this program in RealAudio, visit our Web site at:
http://www.btlonline.org or in our archives
at:http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/btl020901.html
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AUDIO INFORMATION:
\"Between The Lines\" is a half-hour syndicated radio news magazine that each week features a summary of under-reported news stories and interviews with activists and journalists who offer progressive perspectives on international, national and regional political, economic and social issues. Because \"Between The Lines\" is independent of all publications, media networks or political parties, we are able to bring a diversity of voices to the airwaves generally ignored or marginalized by the major media. Check out our text archive listing topics and guests presented in previous programs: http://www.btlonline.org
Contact Scott Harris at (203)544-9863 or email: betweenthelines (at) snet.net
for more information on how to subscribe via tape/CD delivery, free MP3 download or Pacifica Radio Network satellite feed.
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