LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• 300.000 personas protestan contra la guerra en Washington D.C.
• 30 personas mueren en una serie de ataques en Irak
• Fuerzas estadounidenses enfrentadas a militares chiitas
• Asesinan a periodista Iraquí
• Gobierno saudita advierte que Irak desestabilizará Medio Oriente.
• Soldados de Estado Unidos admiten que el ejército golpeó y torturó a iraquíes
• Prisioneros "abandonados para que murieran" en celdas durante huracán Katrina
• FBI mata de un balazo a nacionalista puertorriqueño
• Senador Bill Frist investigado por realizar transacciones bursátiles con información confidencial
• Israel reanuda bombardeos a Gaza y detiene a 200 personas
• Nuevo estudio advierte acerca de la imagen de Estados Unidos en el exterior
• Periodista libanesa sobrevive intento de asesinato

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Military Families Join Hundreds of Thousands of Anti-War Protesters Rallying in Washington

  
  

  The anti-war rally and march on Saturday drew hundreds of military families and veterans. We hear two speakers: Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq last year, and Anne Roesler, from Military Families Speak Out. [includes rush transcript]

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• Actor Jessica Lange Speaks Out at Anti-War Protest in DC

  
  

  Jessica Lange speaks before the crowd of protesters gathered to demonstrate against the war in Iraq in the nation’s capital. [includes rush transcript]

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• Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Calls For Impeachment of President Bush

  
  

  Clark, who launched the website votetoimpeach.org, accused President Bush of high crimes for misleading the nation over the war and for helping to overthrow Jean Bertrand-Aristide, the democratically-elected president of Haiti. [includes rush transcript]

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• Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) on the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina

  
  

  Cynthia McKinney opened the pre-march rally critiquing President Bush for his response to Hurricane Katrina and for the ongoing occupation of Iraq. [includes rush transcript]

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• Palestinian-American Poet Suheir Hammad: "Of Refuge and Language"

  
  

  Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad reads her new poem on Hurricane Katrina: "Evacuated as if criminal // Rescued by neighbors // Shot by soldiers // Adamant they belong // The rest of the world can now see // What I have seen // Do not look away // The rest of the world lives here too // In America" [includes rush transcript]

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• Louisiana Native at Anti-War Protest: "Do Not Allow the Rebuilding of Lives in the Gulf Coast to Be Another Profit" For Halliburton

  
  

  Colette Pichon Battle speaks at the massive anti-war protest in D.C. Battle is from Slidell, Louisiana and makes the connection between the response to Hurricane Katrina and the reconstruction process, and the war in Iraq. [includes rush transcript]

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• NBA Player Etan Thomas Slams Bush Administration, Outlines Impact on Poor

  
  

  NBA player Etan Thomas of the Washington Wizards speaks at the rally on the dire impact of the current administration’s policies on the poor, from health care to the death penalty to the war in Iraq and more. [includes rush transcript]

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• FBI Assassinates Puerto Rican Nationalist Leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios

  
  

  For the past four decades Filiberto Ojeda Rios had been a leading figure in the fight for Puerto Rican independence and against U.S. colonial rule. He was wanted by the FBI for his role in a 1983 bank heist. [includes rush transcript]

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• Dozens of Peace Activists Arrested During Protest at Pentagon

  
  

  We get a breaking report from peace activist Frida Berrigan who is at the Pentagon, where she has just been arrested along with roughly 40 others while demonstrating. [includes rush transcript]

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