Jueves 1 de Diciembre de 2005

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Bush lanza “Estrategia Nacional para la Victoria en Irak”
• Murtha reitera pedido de retirada
• Pelosi: Los demócratas apoyan a Murtha
• La Corte Suprema de California rechaza el pedido de Tookie Williams de reabrir su caso
• Alito trató de anular la decisión Roe vs. Wade
• Informe: Más de 300 vuelos de la CIA a aeropuertos europeos
• La EPA disuelve panel y detiene análisis de polvo
• Peres abandona el Partido Laborista para apoyar a Sharon
• Líderes etíopes de la oposición inician huelga de hambre

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Iraqi-American Member of Muslim Peacemaker Team Speaks Out for Four Kidnapped Colleagues

  
  

  As a group of influential Sunni scholars in Iraq calls for the release of four kidnapped aid workers of the Christian Peacemakers Team, we go to Najaf to speak with Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi American who is a member of the Muslim Peacemaker Team that was founded in conjunction with the CPT. [includes rush transcript]

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• Is the U.S. Training Iraqi Death Squads to Fight the Insurgency?

  
  

  In what the White House billed as a major policy address, President Bush outlined the administration’s Iraq war strategy. Bush again linked a withdrawal of U.S. troops to improvements in the capability of Iraqi security forces. We speak with independent journalist Arun Gupta about the presence Iraqi death squads and the U.S. training of Iraqi security forces. [includes rush transcript]

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• Rep. Jose Serrano: One of Three Congressmembers to Vote for Immediate U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Iraq, One of Two to Accept Venezuelan President Chavez’ Offer of Cheap Oil to Poor U.S. Communities

  
  

  We speak with Rep. Jose Serrano (D–NY), one of only three Congressmembers out of more than 400 who voted for an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. He’s also one of the two to take up an offer by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for cheap oil here in the United States. [includes rush transcript]

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• 50th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

  
  

  Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was arrested December 1st, 1955, for violating segregation laws when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. The move sparked a one-year boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. We hear some of the voices of people who were outside Parks’ memorial in Washington DC last month. [includes rush transcript]

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