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IMC Radio News - 13 May 2002 |
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by Michael Feltes
Email: mfeltes (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
14 May 2002
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IMC Radio News for 13 May 2002, with features about the People's March on Springfield, this week's Life in the Bike Lane focusing on Dump and Run, and an interview conducted by Marco of DC IMC with Alia Kates, one of the 19 peace activists detained in Milwaukee on their way to Washington, DC for the A20 actions, plus headlines. (article 3) |
 020425_-_alia_kates__a20_protestor_detained_in_milwaukee_.mp3 (2139 k) IMC Radio News for 13 May 2002, with features about the People's March on Springfield, this week's Life in the Bike Lane focusing on Dump and Run, and an interview conducted by Marco of DC IMC with Alia Kates, one of the 19 peace activists detained in Milwaukee on their way to Washington, DC for the A20 actions, plus headlines. (article 3) |
IMC Radio News for 13 May 2002, with features about the People's March on Springfield, this week's Life in the Bike Lane focusing on Dump and Run, and an interview conducted by Marco of DC IMC with Alia Kates, one of the 19 peace activists detained in Milwaukee on their way to Washington, DC for the A20 actions.
March on Springfield - 4:17, 1 MB
Life in the Bike Lane: Dump and Run - 6:15, 1.4 MB
Alia Kates - 9:07, 2.1 MB
Headlines for 13 May 2002:
The UI Alumni Association presented an Alumni Achievement Award during its commencement yesterday to Steven L. Miller, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Houston's Shell Oil Co., one of America's major oil and natural gas producers and petrochemical manufacturers. He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1967 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Shell Oil company has come under pressure from human rights groups because of their cooperation with the Nigerian government in suppressing the popular movements against Shell's exploitation of people and natural resources in the Niger Delta. Shell has horribly polluted the oil-rich land, the traditional homeland of the Ogoni people. The Ogoni have received almost no money from the billions of dollars of oil extracted there and Shell mercenaries have been implicated in the harassment and murder of anti-Shell activists.
For more information on the plight of the Ogoni people and Shell Oil's misdeeds in the region, see this month's public i, available at many locations around Champaign-Urbana, featuring an article by Al Kagan on the Ogoni struggle.
Following Illinois Gov. George Ryan's lead, Maryland Gov. Parris N. Glendening has suspended the death penalty in the state pending a study of the fairness of capital punishment.
Maryland has executed three people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The moratorium stays the execution of Wesley E. Baker, previously scheduled to be executed next week.
The study is occasioned by nationwide concerns that the penalty is disproportionately applied to black criminals whose victims are white. The study is due to be completed in September.
From Danielle Chynoweth:
Gay rights supporters from the 85% Coalition hung a banner from the gallery of the Illinois State Senate on Thursday, May 9, then stood and sang before a silent and stunned audience. "Pate stop discrimination, pass HB 101" was neatly printed on a large banner, which hung from the balcony above the Senate floor. Sixteen supporters sat silently wearing t-shirts that said "Discrimination NO!" and "HB 101 YES." May 9th was the last day the Senate could have heard HB 101, which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to the Illinois Human Rights Act. This act prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, and credit. After a 25-year campaign to pass this civil rights bill, supporters finally saw the Illinois House approve it last March. Since then, it has stalled in the Senate. Pate Phillip, President of the Senate, opposes this bill and wields great power over other Republican senators, who appear to be waiting for his sanction. A year ago, the same demonstrators who hung the banner today were arrested after disrupting a Senate Executive Committee hearing that failed to move HB 101 to the full Senate. Last year, Kimberlie Kranich, Mary Lee Sargent, Marya Burke, Lori Serb, and Meg Miner were all charged and later acquitted of criminal trespass to state supported land.
Again, for more information on the struggle to pass HB 101, see this month's public i for a story by Liam O'Donoughe on the 85% Coalition's continuting effort to ban sexual orientation discrimination. Also visit the UC IMC's newswire at http://www.ucimc.org to see video footage of the protest recorded by Bexa Glaser.
March on Springfield - 4:17, 1 MB
Life in the Bike Lane: Dump and Run - 6:15, 1.4 MB
Alia Kates - 9:07, 2.1 MB |
