{"article":{"id":7385,"heading":"Flashpoints Radio, June 13, 2001: Why 1000's of Europeans are protesting GWBush","author":"Jaguar Johnny","created":"2001-06-15 01:31:36","modified":"2013-11-10 23:37:39","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:37:39","article":"



Wednesday, June 13, 2001 - http:\/\/www.flashpoints.net\/realaudio\/fp20010613.ram<\/a>\">Start Audio<\/big><\/font><\/strong> http:\/\/www.Flashpoints.net\/AudioSecrets.html<\/a>\">http:\/\/www.Flashpoints.net\/images0613indymedia\/a.gif\" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=25 WIDTH=52 ALT=\"for audio FAQ, click here\">
-<\/font>00:00<\/font>(joined in progress)<\/i><\/small><\/font> Yuh Sun: 10,000's of Europeans gather in Sweden to protest G.W.Bush's visit. Gregory Pellas of http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/<\/a>\">London Observer<\/i> newspaper explains the basis of cultural and policy clashes with foreign leaders. Prof. Margerie Cohen of http:\/\/www.jeffersonlaw.edu\/<\/a>\">Thomas Jefferson School of Law<\/i> expands: Kyoto agreement, death penalty, missile defence, Cuban blockade, sanctions against Iraq, human rights violations. Pellas: Israel's possible nuclear blowup. \"... We're getting back to the image of the Ugly American<\/i>.

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-<\/font>08:00<\/font> Celia Alario w\/ Mike Dolan of http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/<\/a>\">Public Citizen's http:\/\/www.tradewatch.org<\/a>\">Trade Watch. Congress starts processing G.W.Bush fast track<\/i> authority, would surrender constitutional responsibility to administer foreign commerce after due public discussion. Fast track<\/i> is legislative laxative, taking public participation in trade issues away from U.S. citizens. FTAA means expanding the flawed and failed NAFTA throughout the hemisphere. Mo info: 415-934-1142
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Celia Alario w\/ Katherine Spiller of http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/default.asp<\/a>\">Feminist Majority<\/i>

and http:\/\/www.whrc-access.org\/leadership.html<\/a>\">Jennifer Parker director of http:\/\/www.whrc-access.org\/index.html<\/a>\">Access<\/i>. Lawful abortion providers being intimidated and put out of business by violent \"pro-life\" bombings and arsons. Concern about Bush's probably nominee of an anti-abortion justice to the Supreme Court. The public is against making abortion illegal.


http:\/\/www.globalexchange.org\/colombia\/action060401.html<\/a>\">http:\/\/www.Flashpoints.net\/images\/kimi.jpg\" align=right BORDER=1 HEIGHT=92 WIDTH=86 ALT=\"Kimi Pernia Domico photo\">-<\/font>30:50<\/font> Indigenous environmental activist Kimi Pernia Domico, a spokesperson for the Embera people following the construction of Urrá dam, still missing after abduction last week by armed gunmen. W\/ Sandra Alvarez of http:\/\/www.globalexchange.org\/colombia\/background.html<\/a>\">Global Exchange<\/i> reports on demonstrations today in Colombia, in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Rampant environmental devastation and militarization a result of U.S. drug policy in the Andes, Kimi's abduction one more result.


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