Martes 6 de Junio de 2006

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Corte Suprema decidirá sobre casos de integración racial en las escuelas
• Porcentaje de estudiantes afrodescendientes de primer año de la Universidad de California disminuyó a tan sólo 2%
• Cientos huyen de Ramadi por temor a ataque estadounidense
• Ofrecen incentivos a Irán para abandonar programa de enriquecimiento de uranio
• Informe: Miembros del Congreso y sus colaboradores realizaron 20.000 viajes gratis
• Bush promueve nuevamente prohibición del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo
• Milicias islámicas toman control de capital somalí
• Hombres armados atacaron canal de televisión a favor de Fatah en Gaza
• Estados Unidos se niega a ayudar a víctimas vietnamitas del Agente Naranja
• ONU advierte que el calentamiento global afecta los desiertos del mundo
• Abogados de José Padilla solicitan a la corte que elimine pruebas
• Se descubrió que nuevo asesor de política interna de Bush mintió acerca de su pasado
• Alcalde de Greensboro, Carolina del Norte, se niega a pedir disculpas por participación de la ciudad en Masacre de Greensboro
• Empresa privada transmitirá avisos en autobuses escolares

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Antiwar Candidates Challenge Incumbent Democrats in House and Senate Races

  
  

  The 2006 mid-term elections are just five months away. In the Senate, close to three-dozen seats are up for grabs, while all 435 seats are open in the House. Democrats hope growing public discontent with the Bush administration will help them win control of Congress from the Republicans. But some of this year’s most heated races won’t just come down to Republicans vs. Democrats–or Independents–in November. Rather, in primaries this week and continuing through the summer, some of the country’s closely-watched races will pit Democrats–against Democrats. And there’s one main issue that’s creating the fault line: the war in Iraq.

  Across the country, a handful of challengers are taking some of the leading Democratic figures to task for voting to send US troops to Iraq and refusing now to bring them home. On this issue and others like government wiretapping, these candidates say many elected Democrats have betrayed core party values and provided political cover for the Bush administration.

  We hear from four of these candidates that are shaking up races across the country: Jonathan Tasini in New York, Marcy Winograd in California, Ned Lamont in Connecticut and John Bonifaz in Massachusetts. [includes rush transcript]

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• "The United States is Terrified"–Noam Chomsky on Latin America’s Move Towards "Independence and Integration"

  
  

  Noam Chomsky–the renowned linguist and political analyst–was in New York Monday where he gave a press conference at the United Nations. Democracy Now! was there to capture Chomsky’s two-hour exchange with reporters. We play an excerpt of the press conference where Chomsky talks about the current political climate in Latin America. [includes rush transcript]

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