{"id":1281,"date":"2007-03-09T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2007-03-09T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T21:49:07","slug":"weekly-digest-030907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/03\/09\/weekly-digest-030907\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Digest – 03\/09\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weekly edition<\/a> is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. <\/em><\/p>\n

Audio Stream<\/a> | Podcast<\/a> | Mp3 Download<\/a><\/p>\n

This week on Uprising:<\/p>\n

* US Responsibility for Gender Violence in Iraq
\n* Empire Notes on the Walter Reed Scandal
\n* Argentine Torture Survivor Speaks Out
\n* Black Agenda Report on the need for a “Black Moveon”
\n* Independent Media in Oaxaca<\/p>\n

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US Responsibility for Gender Violence in Iraq<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"HouzanGUEST: Yifat Susskind, Communications Director at MADRE<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, a new report on gender based violence in Iraq was released during the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Released just before International Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day and the soon-to-be fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the report highlights the often overlooked systematic campaign of violence against Iraqi women. It is called “Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and is published by MADRE, an international women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s human rights organization. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d carefully documents the use of violence by reactionary fundamentalists against particularly those women who are considered problematic in a theocratic state – such as professionals, artists and lesbians. The U.S. government, contrary to its own rhetoric, is blamed for failing to protect Iraqi women and even enabling the very militias carrying out the violence against them through its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Salvador Option\u00e2\u20ac\u009d policies. <\/p>\n

Download the report here: http:\/\/www.madre.org\/articles\/me\/iraqreport.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Empire Notes on the Walter Reed Scandal<\/strong><\/p>\n

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/a>Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commentary is on The Walter Reed Scandal and Socialized Medicine. <\/p>\n

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Argentine Torture Survivor Speaks Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"PatriciaGUEST: Patricia Isasa, torture survivor from Argentina<\/em><\/p>\n

We return now to the story of Patricia Isasa, Argentine torture survivor whom we have featured on Uprising before. Patricia is the lead witness in a trial which will begin this year, to bring 9 human rights violators in Argentine to justice for torture, complicity, or even genocide. Patricia has been kidnapped several times, beginning when she was only 16 years old and has survived various forms of torture. Patricia Isasa spoken out about her experiences despite continuous death threats. Today she is protected under the Argentine Witness Protection Program with an extremely high-level of security. Last year the Argentine Supreme Court struck down amnesty laws that protected former military officers who served during the dictatorship. As a result, former police chief Miguel Etchecolatz was recently convicted in a landmark trial. One of the key witnesses in that trial went missing last September, hours before he was to give his final testimony. <\/p>\n

Music by Jose Luis Arrozco.<\/p>\n

Black Agenda Report on the need for a “Black Moveon”<\/strong><\/p>\n

GUEST: Bruce Dixon, sitting in for Glen Ford, is the Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This week’s commentary is about the need for a “Black Moveon.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n

Independent Media in Oaxaca<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"APPO,GUESTS: Shannon Young, Headlines editor for Free Speech Radio News, Vladmir Flores, FSRN Correspondent and works with Mal de Ojo TV, an independent media collective <\/em><\/p>\n

Tens of thousands marched in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on March 8th to mark International Women’s Day. They included members of the Oaxaca Peoples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Popular Assembly or APPO, the Coordination of the Women of Oaxaca (COMO), and indigenous women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s organizations. The marchers were defiant of the repressive policies of Governor Ulises Ruiz. Earlier this week, victims of repression in Oaxaca publicly denounced ongoing injustices committed by local government authorities. The pronouncements were made during hearings of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States. Human rights advocates also testified on arbitrary detentions in Oaxaca. They say that persecution continues to occur, especially against leaders and members of APPO and that such crimes go unpunished. The popular rebellion in Oaxaca began nearly a year ago last May when teachers went on strike to demand higher salaries and better working conditions. Over the next several months, the movement grew to demand the ouster of Governor Ulises Ruiz. On October 27th, Indymedia journalist, Brad Will was shot and killed in Oaxaca while filming a violent face-off. The group, Friends of Brad Will are now demanding from members of the US Congress that there be justice and accountability in Will’s murder, and an end to the impunity of human rights violations in Oaxaca. <\/p>\n

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d — Henry Anatole Grunwald <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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