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Monday, December 01, 2008
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Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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“A View From the South”
Evo Morales knows about “change you can believe in.” He also knows what happens when a powerful elite is forced to make changes it doesn’t want.
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“President Obama Can Redeem the White House”
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
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Amy Goodman on CNN Newsroom, November 10, 2008
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Anjali Kamat’s New Column: “Change We Can Believe In?”
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat writes, “To all those for whom America has represented generations of racial injustice, the election of America’s first Black president marks the beginning of a new era…But unless the inspired millions who brought him to power continue to believe their demands matter and insist on holding him accountable each step of the way, it will be Obama’s corporate and hawkish friends who determine the domestic and foreign policies of the coming administration and our collective future.”
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“Organizer in Chief”
You could almost hear the world’s collective sigh of relief. This year’s U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
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Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, “My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that’s my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it’s curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far.”
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“Election Protection”
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system’s integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
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Nigerian Woman Faces Stoning For Committing Adultery
Amina Lawal, a 32-year old woman from Northern Nigeria’s Katsina province was sentenced to death on March 22 last year. She was told she would be buried up to her neck in sand and stoned to death after bearing a child outside wedlock.
The sentence was pronounced by a Sharia court at Bakori in Katsina.
Lawyers have argued that Amina be freed but state officials have insisted that she go through the judicial appeals process
The man named as the father of her baby girl reportedly denied having sex with her and the charges against him were discontinued. Amina’s appeal has been postponed multiple times since last August when a court upheld her death sentence.
On Wednesday August 27 this Islamic court of appeal announced that it would issue its judgement on September 25, 2003. The judges also re-affirmed that if convicted Amina should not be stoned until she has weaned her baby Wasila in January 2004. As Amina who has now postponed death for a year waits for a judgement–we are joined by two people who have worked with the case.
- Amina Wadud, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University-author of ‘Quran and the Woman: Re-reading the Sacred Text from a Womans Perspective’ (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is a Feminist Islamic scholar of Gender and an expert on Quranic Law.
- Stephane Mikala, Nigeria Researcher at Amnesty International in London. He has been working with the Amina Lawal case-he was present at her hearing at a Shariah court in Katsuna province of Northern Nigeria in March this year. It was there that he got a chance to spend some time with Amina.
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