March 2002 Archive
Friday, March 29, 2002
- Headlines for March 29, 2002
- Israel Launches All-Out Drive to Isolate "Enemy" Arafat
- The Army Will Incinerate Nerve Gas Weapons in a Metropolitan Area of Alabama, But Civilians Aren’t to Worry: The Government Will Buy Them Gas Masks
- An Exclusive Interview with Zacarias Moussaoui’s Mother As the Justice Department Announces It Will Seek the Death Penalty for the Accused Hijacker
Thursday, March 28, 2002
- Headlines for March 28, 2002
- Restoring the Debt: Descendents of Slaves File for Reparations From US Corporations That Profited From Slavery
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
- Headlines for March 27, 2002
- Raided: The FBI Descends On 14 North Virginia Groups Alleging Ties to So-Called Terrorists
- Arab Summit Lies in Ruins As Arafat Is Fenced in
- Breaking the Hollywood Race Barrier: Did the 74th Annual Academy Awards Really Open Anydoors?
- A Campaign Is Launched By Human Rights Organizations to Investigate the UN’s Role in Theannexation of West Papua New Guinea By Indonesia Nearly Four Decades Ago
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
- Headlines for March 26, 2002
- Breaking the Hollywood Race Barrier: Was a Door Really Opened at This Year’s Academy Awards? A Roundtable Discussion
Monday, March 25, 2002
- Headlines for March 25, 2002
- Free Trading Democracy for Profits
- "Angels of the Public Interest" Gather in Front of the Federal Communications Commission Todemand An End to Media Consolidation
Friday, March 22, 2002
- Headlines for March 22, 2002
- Stunning Depths of Government Collaboration with Enron Revealed
- The Hollywood Film "John Q" Takes On the Health Insurance Industry
- An Oscar Nominated Film, "Promises", Looks at Israel and Palestine Through the Eyes Ofchildren
Thursday, March 21, 2002
- Headlines for March 21, 2002
- Preying On Children: A Widening Scandal Over Priest Pedophilia Shakes the Foundations of Thecatholic Church
- Cheney, Iraq and International Oil
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
- Headlines for March 20, 2002
- Former Director of the CIA James Woolsey Vs. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark:Should the U.S. Invade Iraq?
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
- Headlines for March 19, 2002
- Human Rights Lawyer and Activist Jennifer Harbury Brings the Case of Her Murdered Husband Tothe Supreme Court
- On the Eve of the Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, Gunned Down By Graduates of the Former U.S. Army School of the Americas, a Debate On the School of the Americas
- As Vice President Dick Cheney Tours Arab Nations to Drum Up Support for a U.S. Attack Oniraq, the Founder of Peace Studies Talks About the Lessons of War
Monday, March 18, 2002
- Headlines for March 18, 2002
- More Than 300,000 Protest Against Eu Summit
- As Vice President Dick Cheney Tours Arab Nations to Drum Up Support for a US Attack on Iraq, We’ll Hear from the Founder of Peace Studies
Friday, March 15, 2002
- Headlines for March 15, 2002
- Milosevic Cross-Examines NATO Leader at Hague
- Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe: Demon Or Demonized?
- Ralph Nader: A Democracy Now! Interview About Fuel Efficiency, Anthrax, Afghanistan,Healthcare, and the Corporate Elite
Thursday, March 14, 2002
- Headlines for March 14, 2002
- An Italian Journalist Is Killed
- Chronic Coughs, Upper Respiratory Infections, Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Asthma Plague Residents and Students at Ground Zero
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
- Headlines for March 13, 2002
- Louima Juror Speaks Out in "Democracy Now!" Exclusive, Calls Appeals Court Ruling 'Totallyabsurd', Remains Anonymous Out of Fear of 'Unsavory Characters' in Officer Schwarz Support Committee
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
- Headlines for March 12, 2002
- Workers March Across the Country to Protest Taco Bell
- Sharon Says He Will End Arafat Blockade But Pushes Ahead with Punishing Military Campaign
- Muslim Cleric Jamil Al-Amin Is Convicted of Murder; Prosecutors Urge Jurors to Sentence Themuslim Spiritual Leader to Death
- Massive Protests Rack Argentina, Once the Darling of the International Monetary Fund
Monday, March 11, 2002
Friday, March 08, 2002
- Headlines for March 08, 2002
- More Than 30 People Die in Israel-Palestine in One of the Bloodiest Days in Recent History,But Israeli and Palestinian Women Are Working Together to End the Occupation
- Did the U.S. Really Liberate the Women of Afghanistan? Playwright and V-Day Founder Eveensler Speaks From Kabul As She Prepares for Talks with Afghan Women Leaders
- Global Women’s Strike: Voices of Women Around the World On This International Women’s Day
Thursday, March 07, 2002
- Headlines for March 07, 2002
- Entertainment Takes Over the Network News: Disney’s Stocks Rise As Ted Koppel Fights for"Nightline’s" Survival On Disney’s Abc, Threatened By a Possible Letterman Takeover
- Stopping the War On the Poor: After Hundreds Storm the Conservative Heritage Foundation, Oneof the Country’s Leading Conservatives Agrees to Walk in Poverty’s Shoes
Wednesday, March 06, 2002
- Headlines for March 06, 2002
- Hundreds of Poor People Storm the Heritage Foundation
- Warplanes Bombard the Mountains of Eastern Afghanistan in What Is Being Described Bywashington As the Biggest Offensive Yet in the War Against Afghanistan
- The U.S. Forms a Shadow Government of a Hundred, Living and Working Secretly Outsidewashington in Several Undisclosed Locations, Part II
- Voters Head to the Polls in Zimbabwe This Weekend: A Debate On the Explosive Presidentialelections in Zimbabwe
Tuesday, March 05, 2002
- Headlines for March 05, 2002
- The U.S. Forms a Shadow Government of a Hundred, Living and Working Secretly Outsidewashington in Several Undisclosed Locations
- From COINTELPRO to the Shadow Government: As Fred Hampton Jr. Is Released From 9 Years Ofprison, a Look Back at the Assassination of Fred Hampton
Monday, March 04, 2002
- Headlines for March 04, 2002
- Inside the State of Siege: Israeli Troops Raid Palestinian Refugee Camps and Palestinian Suicide Bombers and Snipers Step Up Attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank
- Arundhati Roy, Author of the God of Small Things, Faces Prison for Speaking Out Against the Privatization of Rivers, Energy, and Other Essential Resources in India
Friday, March 01, 2002
- Headlines for March 01, 2002
- Overturned: As a Federal Appeals Court Overturns the Conviction of Three Officers Charged with Brutalizing Abner Louima, Democracy Now! Looks at the Face of Police Brutality, with Iris Baez, Mother of
- As President Bush Finishes a Whirlwind Series of Meetings with Three African Leaders, We Speak with a South African Activist and Scholar About "Global Apartheid"
- The Colombian Government Declares a War Zone in a Large Part of Southern Columbia and Expands Military Special Powers After the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia Kidnap Members of Congress
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.
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
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]


