Shows featuring Faleh Abood Umara

Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as "Robbery"
As the Iraqi Cabinet approves part of a controversial oil law, we speak with Faleh Abood Umara, the general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions and a founding member of the oil workers union in Iraq. He calls on Iraqi lawmakers to reject the legislation. We also speak with Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union and the first woman to head a national union...
July 06, 2007 | Story
Discussion about the Aryan Brotherhood in prisons and the death penalty.
Discussion about the Aryan Brotherhood and the death penalty in regards to the riot in April 1993 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility when nine prisoners and one guard were killed. Five individuals have been sentenced to death for the killings that occurred during the riots, while some claim that those convicted, both members of the Aryan Brotherhood and members of the Nation of Islam are...
May 16, 1997 | Story

Columns

A Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

The Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has entered its fourth week. Henry Siegman, a venerable dean of American Jewish thought and president of the U.S./Middle East Project, sat down for an interview with the Democracy Now! news hour. An ordained rabbi, Siegman is the former executive director of the American Jewish Congress and former executive head of the Synagogue Council of America, two of the major, mainstream Jewish organizations in the United States. He says the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories must end.

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