LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Legislador: La ofensiva en Irak está “muerta” tras atentado en el Parlamento
• CBS cancela programa de Don Imus por insultos racistas
• Oxfam: Boicot contra los palestinos está provocando crisis “devastadora”
• Periodistas se manifiestan para exigir la liberación de corresponsal secuestrado
• Líder de la oposición de Zimbabwe: 600 activistas fueron detenidos y torturados
• Jefe del Estado Mayor turco propone ataque contra kurdos iraquíes
• Primer Ministro australiano solicita prohibir ingreso de inmigrantes y refugiados VIH positivos
• Abogado: Comité Nacional Republicano perdió correos electrónicos de Rove de los últimos cuatro años
• Personal del Banco Mundial solicita renuncia de Wolfowitz
• Segunda representante femenina abandona comité hispánico
• Profesor palestino encarcelado que fue trasladado denuncia abusos
• Fiscales: Juez violó acuerdo de pena de Al-Arian
• Gobernador de Nueva Jersey herido en accidente automovilístico

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from WWII Documentary

  
  

  A coalition of Latino organizations have been criticizing PBS over a forthcoming documentary by Ken Burns on World War II because it ignores the role played by Latino soldiers in the war. The 14-hour film, "The War," includes no interviews with any Latino veterans even though over 500,000 Latinos served in the war. The documentary also includes no interviews with any Native American veterans. We speak with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas professor who has led the protests against PBS. [rush transcript included]

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• Step It Up: Thousands Gather this Weekend for Largest Ever-Rally Against Global Warming

  
  

  The group Step it Up is spearheading the National Day of Climate of Action on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering across the country in the largest-ever demonstration against global warming. Over thirteen hundred rallies, demonstrations and actions are being held in all fifty states to call on Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. We speak with Step it Up organizer Bill McKibben. [rush transcript included]

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• Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1

  
  

  General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation’s largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" We’re joined by the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric car. [rush transcript included]

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