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is Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary!
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with audio clips from our 10th Anniversary CD,
"News & Views The Corporate Media Exclude"
The CD features:
- Physicist Michio Kaku on whose way of life was preserved in the Persian Gulf War
- MIT professor and U.S. foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky , on what the demise of the Soviet Union means to the rest of the world
- Z Magazine editor Michael Albert on the new coalition that organized anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle
- Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader on his exclusion from the 2000 presidential debate
Between The Lines Archive
For The Week Ending May 4, 2001
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM
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This week we present Between The Lines' summary of under-reported news stories and:
Breaking the Barricades: The Battle Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Quebec City
Produced by Scott Harris.
- Behind a 2.4-mile long concrete and wire fence, leaders from every nation in the hemisphere, except for Cuba gathered in Quebec City for the Summit of the Americas April 20-22 to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The FTAA, an economic treaty modeled after the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, would extend many of the same regulations found in NAFTA to the nations of North, South and Central America.
While the heads of state met with their corporate allies to move toward implementation of the FTAA by 2005, activists outside this 400-year-old walled city staged militant protests condemning the secrecy of the negotiations and the erosion of democracy they claim is the result of surrendering government power to transnational corporations. Between The Lines' Scott Harris has this special report.
Related links:
- On-location interview with Hassan Yussuff, of Common Frontiers and vice chair of the Canadian Labor Congress on the coalition of groups opposed to the FTAA at People's Summit held in Quebec City April 19, 2001 (MP3 file)
- 11 a.m. On-location press conference with Jaggi Singh and other members of the Anticapitalist Convergence (CLAC) on the protests planned for the day April 20, 2001. A few hours later, Singh was beaten by undercover police dressed as protesters during his arrest. (in MP3)
- Interview with Greg Duffell of CKLN Radio in Toronto who reports on the constraints placed on journalists located inside the Summit of the Americas media center from covering the Quebec City protests on Friday 4/20/01. (in MP3)
- "Not One or Two, But Hundreds of Protests," Naomi Klein, Globe and Mail, www.Alternet.org April 24, 2001
- "Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Quebec welcomes the corporate state," Hank Hoffman, New Haven Advocate, April 26, 2001
- "Gas Not Only Cause for Tears at Trade Summit," Anna Manzo, New Haven Register, April 25, 2001
- Corporate Security State Protects Wealthy Elite from Citizen Dissent
- Vice chair of the Council of Canadians says transnational corporations have become the new dictators
Produced by Scott Harris.
- The week preceding the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City more than 2,000 delegates from around the hemisphere gathered at the People's Summit held in a large tent at Quebec's old port. There, they articulated an alternative vision to corporate-led globalization, the target of a growing global social justice movement in Quebec City and elsewhere. Labor leaders, environmentalists, human rights and indigenous rights activists were among the participants.
In the final session of the People's Summit, April 21st, French farmer Jose Bove, well-known for his 1999 bulldozing of a McDonald's restaurant in France, spoke to an overflow crowd. Also speaking was Council of Canadians vice chair Tony Clarke who strongly condemned the development of the "corporate security state."
Tony Clarke is author of "Global Showdown" Contact the Council by calling (613) 233-3773 or visit their Web site at: www.canadians.org
Related speech:
- Jose Bove, activist farmer who shot to international fame after demolishing a McDonald's in France, speaking at the People's Summit of the Americas, April 21, 2001. Bove was originally denied entry to Canada for this summit. (in MP3)
- Corporate Security State Protects Wealthy Elite from Citizen Dissent Between The Lines Q&A, full transcript of Tony Clarke's speech at the People's Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. April 21, 2001
- Mother of Murder Victim Resists Calls for Vengeance and Works to Abolish Death Penalty
Interview by Scott Harris.
- Newspaper editor and award-winning syndicated columnist Antoinette Bosco's world was turned upside down when in 1993 she received a phone call informing her that her son and daughter-in-law had been shot to death in their Montana home. When the 18-year-old murderer was eventually arrested, Antoinette, a devout Catholic and life-long opponent of capital punishment, was faced with a justice system where rage and vengeance were an integral response to violence.
Working through the shock and grief of the senseless murder, Antoinette sought the kinship of families also dealing with violence and loss. Surprising to some, she also sought out the friendship of parents of executed murderers. Eventually coming to terms with her personal tragedy, Antoinette Bosco became a tireless campaigner to end the death penalty and reform the nation's flawed criminal justice system.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Antoinette Bosco, author of "Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty," who discusses the ultimate personal test of her life-long opposition to the death sentence and her activism in the national movement to abolish capital punishment.
Antoinette Bosco is author of "Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty," published by Orbis Books. Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation can be contacted by calling (617) 868-0007 or by visiting their Web site: www.mvfr.org.
- This week's summary of under-reported news
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- South Korea alarmed by Taiwanese plan to bury nuclear waste in North Korea just 56 miles north of Seoul. (World Press Review, May 2001)
- Bush administration seeking development of oil, coal, shale, oil and natural gas reserves in Rocky Mountains. (In These Times, April 30, 2001)
- Progressives and African American activists wonder if the Rev. Al Sharpton is up to the task of filling the role of the nation's leading civil rights leader. (The Nation, April 16, 2001)
Credits:
Senior news editor/writer: Bob Nixon
Program narration: Denise Manzari
News reader: Elaine Osowski
Distribution: Anna Manzo, Harry Minot, Jeff Yates
Web editor/producer: Anna Manzo
Executive producer: Scott Harris
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Between The Lines' 10th Anniversary CD
April 17-22, 2001 FTAA Summit Protest Resources
Stop the FTAA Web site, www.stopftaa.org, Excellent activist resource on what the FTAA is, and what's happening where in the U.S. and Canada
"Labor, Environmental and Human Rights Groups Organizing to Oppose April Americas Free Trade Treaty Summit in Quebec City" Between The Lines interview with Alliance for Responsible Trade's Karen Hansen Kuhn, Feb. 26, 2001
"Quebec City Crackdown," www.AlterNet.org, by Darryl LeRoux, Feb. 20, 2001
People's Summit of the Americas II, Grassroots coalition Schedule of Events for people's forums, teach-ins, rallies, mass demonstration. (www.sommetdespeuples.org)
Quebec Independent Media Center quebec.indymedia.org
ZNet's Global Economic Crisis resource site Excellent source for understanding global economics and trade issues and particularly in preparation for ongoing demonstrations about economic justice
Between The Lines/WPKN Report on Pacifica Radio Network-WBAI, N.Y. Crisis
Jan. 8, 2001 Interviews with Utrice Leid, Leslie Cagan, and Bernard White
Foreign Reports on the U.S. Election Cover-Up
"Silence Of The Lambs: The Election Story Never Told" www.mediachannel.org, Whistleblowers Section, by Greg Palast, March 1, 2001
Post Inauguration and Electoral Reform Resources
"Making Every Vote Count", The Nation Magazine, Special Section
"Hailing the Thief," The Nation Special Web Exclusive Report, by Ben Ehrenreich
Between The Lines/WPKN 'Profiles Bush Cabinet Nominees' Archive:
"John Ashcroft Sought White Supremacist Political Support"
Interior Department Nominee Gale Norton at Odds with Public Support for Protecting the Environment
"Attorney General Nominee's Career Marked by Opposition to Reproductive Rights and Civil Rights Law"
"From Vietnam to Florida's Disenfranchisement of Black Voters: Unheroic Moments in Secretary of State Nominee Colin Powell's Career"
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