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For The Week Ending May 25, 2001
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMLISTEN to this week's half-hour program of Between The Lines by clicking on one of the links below.
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Scheduled Execution Ignores U.S. Culture of Violence Interview by Scott Harris.
Timothy McVeigh, the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, had been scheduled to be executed May 16. But just days before the sentence was to be carried out in Terre Haute, Ind., the FBI revealed that it had failed to turn over more than 3,000 documents to McVeigh's attorneys during his 1996 trial. Attorney General John Ashcroft reluctantly agreed to postpone the execution until June 11. McVeigh's lawyers, now examining the newfound documents, could seek a new trial.
In the days leading up to his execution date, McVeigh has been the subject of intense media coverage. Some 2,000 jounalists were expected to descend on Terre Haute to report on the execution -- with predictable saturation coverage from broadcast and cable news channels. Family members of the victims and survivors of the blast will be allowed to watch the execution on closed circuit TV, the first death penalty sentence to be carried out by the federal government in 38 years.
But according to some critics, the media generally are reluctant to cover in any meaningful way America's culture of violence beyond the sensational episodes of school shootings and terrorist attacks. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Norman Solomon about the connections between vicious criminal acts and acceptable forms of institutional violence, such as the death penalty and military interventions abroad.
Author and syndicated columnist Norman Solomon's columns can be read on the Internet at www.fair.org.
to Battle Fast Track Bill and FTAA Interview by Scott Harris.
It's been several weeks since tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Quebec City and other towns and border crossings to voice their opposition to the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA. In Quebec, protesters had engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action at a concrete and wire fence surrounding the city center where leaders from every state in the hemisphere, except for Cuba, met to discuss the timetable for ratifying the controversial FTAA, which would include the nations of North, South, Central America and the Caribbean. Demonstrators encountered tight security along the U.S.-Canadian border and 6,000 police in Quebec who used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse them.
Although the FTAA treaty being negotiated has up to now been secret -- with only government officials and their corporate allies privy to the details -- heads of state meeting in Quebec promised to release a sanitized version of the accord after their summit concluded. FTAA, like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) before it, has been criticized for the power it surrenders to corporations leading to the erosion of democracy and national sovereignty.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Michael Dolan, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch West Coast office, who discusses the campaign launched by a broad coalition of groups to defeat legislation in Congress which would grant President Bush fast track negotiating authority, the first step required to conclude negotiations on the FTAA.
Contact Public Citizen by calling (202) 546-4996 or visit their Web site at www.tradewatch.org.
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Interview by Melinda Tuhus.
America's rivers usually don't receive much attention until they overflow their banks during flood season. But a river advocacy organization is doing their best to raise awareness about the adverse impact that energy production is having on the nation's waterways. The American Rivers organization recently released its annual list of the ten most endangered rivers in the U.S. Rivers on the list are not necessarily those in the worst condition but are the ones for which current proposals, if enacted, would create the greatest destruction.
With the Bush administration's recent announcement making energy production, rather than conservation, the centerpiece of their national energy plan, America's rivers will increasingly be targeted for siting new electricity generation projects. Dozens of major rivers are being polluted by coal-fired power plants, which currently generate more than half the country's electricity. Nuclear power plants, oil and natural gas exploration are among the other energy production technologies that continue to harm America's rivers.
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Eric Eckl, communications director with American Rivers, who explains how damming, drilling, digging and burning threaten the survival of the nation's precious waterways.
Contact American Rivers by calling (202) 347-7550 or visit their Web site at www.americanrivers.com.
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Between The Lines' 10th Anniversary CD
April 17-22, 2001 FTAA Summit Protest Resources
Between The Lines Summit of the Americas Archive
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
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"
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