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IMC Radio News June 6, 2005 |
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by Dave Berliner / Sandra Ahten
Email: radio (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
06 Jun 2005
Modified: 06:28:45 PM |
The IMC Radio News for June 06, 2005 is now available online at http://radio.ucimc.org
Full Program: http://radio.ucimc.org/archive/IMCRN-2005-06-06.mp3
Headlines: http://radio.ucimc.org/archive/headlines050606.mp3 |
On this week's program an organizer for http://www.impactaids.org.uk
a humanitarian organization in Scottland, talks about the difficulty fighting aids in Africa and the need to pressure the G8, WTO or African States to provide better care for those suffering from aids.
Local Urbana Champaign Activist Patrick Thompson today represented himself against the charge of Home invasion and criminal sexual abuse. This is part of an ongoing investigation that began when both Martel Miller and Patrick Thompson were charged with Evesdropping and faced up to 14 years in prison for video tapping police stops of minority community members. Thompson and Miller were part of the grassroots organization VEYA, http://www.veya.org/
and were trying to bring to light the problems of racial inequality and disparity under the law. The charges were brought against the two when Martel Miller was caught video tapping one stop of an African American Male riding his bike at night without a bike light. Both charges of evesdropping have subsaquently been dropped with the help of many community members and the new States Attorney Julia Reitz.
Massive protests in La Paz Bolivia over the nationalization of the country's natural gas resources could lead to the resignation of Bolivian President Carlos Mesa. The protests in the street are in support of the nationalization efforts. This report came to the radio.indymedia.org website from Luiz Gomez in La Paz. According to the report the president is expected to resign within 48 hours. There are estimates of over 100,000 people in the streets as of today at 11:00 am.
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/5287.php
The G8 Summit will take place from July 6th-8th 2005 in Scotland and humanitarian aid organizations from around the world are organizing to try to bring their message to the table of these powerful world leaders. Here is a report from United Nations Radio on the Aids Pandemic in Africa. Following the report is a more in-depth look at the aids pandemic in Africa. |
See also:
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2005/g8/
http://www.g8legalsupport.info/
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