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Thursday, August 1, 2002
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Hundreds of Workers March On Washington, Charging Bush with Exclusionary Relief Policies After 9/11
Hundreds of New York City low-wage workers marched on Washington yesterday. Chanting "Health care, not toxic air" in Cantonese, Spanish and English, the workers say the Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied low-income residents of lower Manhattan emergency aid for health care, rent and unemployment in the wake of September 11.
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The Barons of Bankruptcy: Survivors Who Laughed All the Way to the Bank
They are the barons of bankruptcy–a privileged group of top business people who made extraordinary personal fortunes even as their companies were heading for disaster. They made their money at the top of the market, selling shares in companies whose values rocketed in 1999 and 2000. Today their companies, many in the telecommunications sector, have crashed, destroying hundreds of billions of dollars of investor wealth and almost 100,000 jobs. Yet the executives and directors of these bankrupt companies have walked away with gross earnings of $3.3 billion, a stunning pay-off for corporate failure.
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Where Do Enron Execs Spend Their Millions? A Look at One of the Most Controversial Land Tracts in the Nation–An Enron Exec Bought It, Mexican-Americans Say It’s Their Birthright
Top executives and directors of the biggest business collapses amassed billions of dollars in salary and share sales while the stock market was still booming.
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Secret Detentions and Deportations: This Time It’s the Haitian Population— Dozens of Haitians Who Survived a Harrowing Sailboat Journey From Haiti Are Summarily Deported
On Democracy Now we’ve talked a lot about secret detentions and deportations as part of the wave of repression against Arabs and South Asians since September 11th.
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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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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]
