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Independent Media News Headlines, 7-8-01 |
by Paul Riismandel
paul (nospam) mediageek.org (unverified) |
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07 Jul 2001
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These are the headline news summaries as aired on Radio Free Conscience, Sunday July 8 at 10:00am. Radio Free Conscience is a biweekly public affairs program focusing on community and independent media, airing on community radio WEFT. |
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US Embargo on Cuba Not Faith-Based According to Pope John Paul II |
by AP
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07 Jul 2001
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Pope Denounces U.S. Embargo on Cuba
The Associated Press Friday, July 6, 2001; 11:55 a.m. EDT |
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The God That Sucked |
by Thomas Frank, The Baffler, via nessie via rep
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07 Jul 2001
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Despite this, many economists still think that electricity deregulation will work. A product is a product, they say, and competition always works better than state control. "I believe in that premise as a matter of religious faith," said Philip J. Romero, dean of the business school at the University of Oregon and one of the architects of California's deregulation plan. --New York Times, February 4, 2001 |
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Charleston 5: The Ghost of Denmark Vesey |
by Chris Kromm
ckromm (nospam) mindspring.com (unverified) |
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07 Jul 2001
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Chris Kromm is editor of Southern Exposure magazine, and director of the North Carolina-based Institute for Southern Studies. A version of this story appears in the July 1, 2001 issue of CounterPunch. |
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Firestone shuts Decatur plant - Corporate killers make workers pay |
by Socialist Worker
socialistworker (nospam) internationalsocialist.org (unverified) |
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07 Jul 2001
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"One of the problems during the War Zone was that we didn’t listen to the activists who came here and said you have to take over that plant and stop scabs going in," Harlan Smith, vice president of USWA Local 713, told Socialist Worker. "We had 8,000 people at these rallies. We should have taken it over--at all three of the locations. |
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White House Wants to Bury Pact Banning Tests of Nuclear Arms |
by Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger, NYT
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07 Jul 2001
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This is outright madness. The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld clique apparently WANT the world to be a more dangerous place to justify their massive, corporate-welfare spending on new weapons systems. |
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Contra Vets Return to Power: You Remember Elliott Abrams? |
by Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
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06 Jul 2001
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This is very scary, sinister stuff.
FTAA or Death Squads?
Take your pick, it's all bad. |
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The Shortwave Report 7/6/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts
outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (unverified) |
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06 Jul 2001
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. Free to rebroadcast.With times and freqs for listening at home. Netherlands, Russia, Germany, China, Spain, Cuba. |
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Tale of Two Crossings: Medical Aid for Cuba Seized by US Customs in Maine |
by Let Cuba Live
news (nospam) letcubalive.org (unverified) |
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06 Jul 2001
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Caravan of medical equipment for donation to Cuba stopped at US/Canada border on July 2. Activists respond with civil disobedience. Goods are seized. Struggle continues in Maine. |
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Non-Patients Need a Bill of Rights |
by Mark Weisbrot
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06 Jul 2001
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It was three and half years ago that Helen Hunt brought cheers from movie audiences across the country when she spat out a string of expletives with the acronym "H.M.O." nestled in the middle of it. She got the Academy Award for Best Actress ("As Good As it Gets"), and the industry's image has continued to slide downhill. |
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