Lunes 22 de Agosto de 2005

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Estados Unidos planea mantener 100.000 soldados en Irak hasta 2009
• Aumentan protestas contra la guerra en Crawford, Texas
• Manifestaciones previstas para la visita de Bush a Utah
• Cadena televisiva de Utah se niega a transmitir anuncio de Sheehan
• Estados Unidos apoya papel de la ley islámica en nueva constitución iraquí
• Kurdos critican que Estados Unidos apoye un Estado islamista
• Mujeres iraquíes temen Constitución "fascista, nacionalista e islamista"
• 2005: El año con más bajas estadounidenses en Afganistán
• Fuerzas israelíes casi completaron evacuación de colonos de Gaza
• Colono israelí pide asesinato de Ariel Sharon
• Amnistía critica demoliciones de casas en Zimbabwe
• Cuatro mil trabajadores de Northwest Airlines en huelga
• Sindicatos lanzan campaña internacional para organizar a empleados de Wal-Mart
• Policía utiliza pistolas Taser contra manifestantes contra la guerra en Pittsburgh
• Equipos de SWAT allanan fiesta en Utah. 60 personas fueron arrestadas
• Peruano muere en Texas tras ser rociado con gas pimienta
• Cenizas de Hunter S. Thompson fueron lanzadas al cielo

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Cindy’s Crawford: Camp Casey Continues to Grow Despite Sheehan’s Absence

  
  

  Hundreds of supporters converged on Camp Casey outside Bush’s Crawford estate this weekend. Although Cindy Sheehan had to leave temporarily to care for her ailing mother, other military families delivered a letter to the gates of the presidential property. [includes rush transcript]

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• Pro-Bush Demonstrators Mount "I Give a Sheet" Campaign

  
  

  Bush supporters also made their way to Crawford this weekend. About fifty people delivered sheets with messages of support written on them, a local business-owner started a pro-Bush camp, motorcyclists rode past Crawford to show support for the president, and mainstream media commentators continued to attack Cindy Sheehan. [includes rush transcript]

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• "If Bush Is Right, Martin Luther King Jr. Was Wrong"–Activist Rev. Peter Johnson Speaks at Camp Casey

  
  

  We play a speech by longtime activist and former SCLC staffer, the Rev. Peter Johnson who says, "War is not the answer. Only love can conquer hate. If Bush is right, then Marvin [Gaye] was wrong. If Bush is right, then Mohandas Gandhi was wrong. If Bush is right, Henry David Thoreau was wrong. If Bush is right, Martin Luther King Jr. was wrong. If Bush is right, Jesus of Nazareth was wrong." [includes rush transcript]

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• Mother of First Soldier from Georgia Killed in Iraq Also Demands to Speak with Bush

  
  

  We speak with Patricia Roberts, her son Jamaal Addison was killed in Iraq in 2003. He was the first soldier from Georgia killed in Iraq. She says, "[Bush] goes about choosing which parents he talks to because I don’t know why I haven’t gotten the opportunity to talk to him." [includes rush transcript]

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• Former Homeless Veteran Describes How Horrors of War Continues to Plague Soldiers at Home

  
  

  We hear a speech by former homeless veteran Ed Boyd. He says, "When the parade ends, and the military person takes off that uniform, and the horrors of war are still deep within them, and they can’t get help because the Veterans Administration has got a $2 billion shortfall, they enter into a world of real terror, drug abuse, alcoholism, violence." [includes rush transcript]

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• Military Wife Speaks Out on Eve of Husband’s Deployment

  
  

  Tammara Rosenleaf came from Montana to join other military families at Camp Casey. Her husband is about to be deployed to Iraq. [includes rush transcript]

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• Brother of First Pennsylvania National Guardsman Killed in Combat in 60 years Speaks at Camp Casey

  
  

  We hear from Dante Zappala, whose brother, Sherwood Baker, was killed in Iraq in 2004. He was the first member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard to die in combat since 1945. [includes rush transcript]

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• Mother of Soldier Serving in Iraq Calls Continued U.S. Troop Presence a "Moral Sin"

  
  

  We hear a speech by Andrea Hackett speaking at Camp Casey. Her daughter just returned from serving in Iraq. She says, "Let’s make this a huge movement so that [Bush] has to either answer or go back to the White House and hide. We’ll meet him there on September 24th, though." [includes rush transcript]

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