Wednesday, December 1, 2004

• UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: "The World is Facing an Apocalypse and the Int’l Community Response is Abysmal"

  
  
  

  Today is World AIDS Day, an annual campaign dedicated to reaffirming the commitment to fight HIV/AIDS and to remembering the 20 million people who have died from the disease. We speak with Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. [includes rush transcript]

• Homeland Security Gives "The Perception of Security, Not the Reality of It"

  
  
  

  Tom Ridge announced his resignation Tuesday after nearly two years as the nation’s first Homeland Security secretary. We speak with investigative journalist Matthew Brzezinski, author of Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security — An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State.[includes rush transcript]

• Freed Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste: U.S., France, Canada "Were All Behind the Coup"

  
  
  

  Haitian priest Gerard Jean-Juste was released yesterday after serving seven weeks in prison. His case was eventually dismissed after an international outcry over his arrest. He joins us on the phone from Port-au-Prince. [includes rush transcript]

• Award-Winning Novelist Edwidge Danticat Blasts "Discriminatory and Brutal" U.S. Asylum Policy in Death of Uncle

  
  
  

  We speak with award-winning Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat about the death of her uncle in a South Florida detention facility. Father Joseph Dantica died in U.S. custody after he fled Haiti to seek political asylum in the U.S. [includes rush transcript}