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Tuesday, October 1, 2002
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400,000 Protestors Demonstrate in Britain: Labor Mp George Galloway, Filmmaker John Pilger, Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, London Mayor and Others Address Crowd
In the last few weeks, anti-Bush sentiment has been growing across the country. Last Thursday in Portland, Maine a demonstration against the war in Iraq was met with fourteen arrests and police violence. Protesters took to the streets during presidential visits to Flagstaff, Phoenix, Houston and Trenton, New Jersey. Over 3,500 people in Denver protested Bush’s visit there and last week on the same day he was met with protests in Houston, Texas.
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Dockworkers Locked Out at Thirty West Coast Ports From Seattle to San Diego
More than 10,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) were locked out late Sunday by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The lockout comes as "punishment" for what the PMA’s director Joseph Miniace is calling a slowdown by the union. The union disagrees.
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Is Venezuela On Verge of Another Attempted Coup? As a General Strike Looms, We Speak with the First Indigenous Woman Vice President of the National Assembly and An Independent Reporter
On Monday, opposition labor and business leaders in Venezuela announced they would soon organize another general strike against the government of President Hugo Chavez.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
