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Bush Domestic Spying Program Revealed
GUESTS: Sherman Austin, political activist targeted by the government, Nancy Talanian, Director of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee

The New York Times reported last Friday on a government program of spying on US residents. It had known the story for over a year, before the last Presidential election. The report has created a furor in the capital, with politicians in both parties saying that President Bush was wrong to authorize surveillance by the National Security Agency without permission from a special court. In response, Bush and other administration officials went on the offensive this week, angrily defending the program as essential to national security, and criticizing the New York Times for it’s reporting.

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WTO Meeting Ends in “Hong Kong Declaration”
GUEST: Benedict Southworth, Director of World Development Movement, based in Britain

Staying up all night, World Trade Organization delegates made an agreement at the 6th WTO ministerial wrapped up. The agreement is called the Hong Kong Declaration. According to this morning’s New York Times, it’s a “surprisingly broad document calling for changes in everything from European agricultural export subsidies to industrialized countries’ tariffs on exports from countries like Bangladesh and Zambia.”

Aaron Glantz of Free Speech Radio News has these trade related headlines followed by sounds of the street protests presented by FSRN’s Monica Lopez.

Eventually about 600 protestors were arrested attempting to enter the building where WTO delegates were meeting. Special thanks to Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News for WTO related coverage, which has been produced by Monica Lopez, …

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Evo Morales Looks Poised to Win Bolivia Elections
Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network, Nick Buxton, writer and activist in La Paz

On Sunday, December 18th, Bolivians go to the polls to elect a new President. History could be made as indigenous activist, Evo Morales is the leading candidate with roughly 34% of the vote. Ex-President Jorge Quiroga is his closest opponent polling at 29%. Morales will likely fail in obtaining an absolute majority. The top two candidates will then face Bolivia’s Congress, which will decide who is President. Evo Morales founded the Movement Towards Socialism or MAS in 1995 and campaigned on a platform of nationalization of …

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Evo Morales Looks Poised to Win Bolivia Elections
Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network, Nick Buxton, writer and activist in La Paz

On Sunday, December 18th, Bolivians will go to the polls to elect a new President. History could be made as indigenous activist, Evo Morales is the leading candidate with roughly 34% of the vote. Ex-President Jorge Quiroga is his closest opponent polling at 29%. Morales will likely fail in obtaining an absolute majority this Sunday. The top two candidates will then face Bolivia’s Congress, which will decide who is President. Evo Morales founded the Movement Towards Socialism or MAS in 1995 and campaigned on a platform of nationalization of hydrocarbon resources and legalization of coca. He recently said that his movement “represents a nightmare for the government of the United States.” Morales could …

I was at the supermarket yesterday, and as is the nauseating custom at this time of the year, there was Christmas music playing over the loud speakers. While I was able to tune out “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” I soon found myself nearly retching when Band Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” began playing.

I remember Bob Geldof’s paternalistic fervor 21 years ago, joined by the likes of George Michael, Boy George, Simon Le Bon and other super stars, calling attention to the famines of Ethiopia. U2′s Bono patted himself on the back for being part of the international superhit, telling the BBC: “There was a sense after a while that we were there for other people – people we may never meet or know, but we were here for them.”

I couldn’t articulate back then why the song disturbed me. But now, I cannot understand how anyone …

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Pacifica/FSRN Reports from WTO in Hong Kong
PRODUCED BY: Monica Lopez, Aaron Glantz, Ngoc Nguyen, Dante Toza of Free Speech Radio News

The Hong Kong session of the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO) ended on Thursday with a declaration urging all the WTO members to advance the Doha Round trade talks. The declaration said, “Open, free, fair and growing trade reduces poverty and brings benefits to developing countries.” The US and European Union have in principle refused to budge on giving up unfair subsidies to its agricultural sectors, thereby hurting developing nations access to markets. Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News are in Hong Kong producing daily reports from the 6th WTO Ministerial. Aaron Glantz brings us these headlines followed by a report from Dante Toza.

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Pacifica/FSRN Reports from WTO in Hong Kong
PRODUCED BY: Monica Lopez, Aaron Glantz, Ngoc Nguyen, Dante Toza

Trade Ministers at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong have failed to make any headway in the deadlock over contentious farm subsidies paid out by the US and Europe to its farmers and agribusinesses. Most of the developing world, including Brazil and India have demanded these unfair farm subsidies be abolished by 2010. Pacifica and Free Speech Radio News are in Hong Kong and today we present an excerpt of their coverage. FSRN’s Aaron Glantz has these WTO headlines, followed by an interview with Tanya van Meelis of the South African Trade Union Confederation.

Ringside Seat to a Revolution
GUEST: David Romo, author of “Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez: 1893-1923.”

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Anti-Muslim Riots in Australia
GUEST: Kuranda Seyit, Director of Forum on Australia’s Islamic Relations (FAIR)

Last Sunday a mob of about 5000 white youths, many drunk and wrapped in Australian flags, attacked people they believed to be of Middle Eastern origin, at a beach in Sydney, Australia. Hundreds of Lebanese and other Middle Eastern youths responded a day later, and now media are reporting the violence has spread to two other major cities. An emergency session of the New South Wales Parliament will give Sydney police new powers to crack down on the rioters. New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma described the riots as “the ugly face of racism,” and confirmed that white supremacists were involved. The incidents are being called the worst instance of race violence in Australia’s modern history. Tensions between youths of Arabic and …

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Race and Gender in the Orginal King Kong Film
GUEST: Gail Dines, Prof of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College in Boston

As movie fans prepare for this week’s release of Peter Jackson’s epic King Kong film, we go back about 70 years to the original film that gained a cult following. First appearing in 1933, King Kong was written for the big screen and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper. While much has been said about the ground breaking technical effects of the film, most mainstream media commentary has left out the race and gender dimensions of this influential film.

From Gang Member to Community Leader
GUEST: Mel Hayward, Program Director for Venice 2000, former gang member.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court decided against granting a stay in the scheduled execution of death row …