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For the Month of March, 2000

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This week we present Between The Lines' summary of under-reported news stories and:

Is Big Oil cashing on OPEC production cuts?
Interview by Scott Harris.

Wenonah Hauter, executive director with Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, examines the role of big oil companies in recent increases in the price of gasoline.

To learn how you can act locally on this issue, contact Public Citizen by calling (202) 546-4996 or visit their Web site at: www.citizen.org

U.S. grassroots support for indigenous peoples in Chiapas
Interview by Melinda Tuhus.

Tom Hansen, coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network, discusses the current political and military situation in Mexico's embattled Chiapas state.

To learn how you can act locally on this issue, contact Mexico Solidarity Network at (773) 583-7728 or visit their Web site at: www.mexicosolidarity.org

Chicago's Tribune Company joins in megamedia merger mania
Interview by Scott Harris.

Jeff Chester, executive director with the Center for Media Education, takes a critical look at the Tribune Company's takeover of Time Mirror, the latest in a string of media mergers. Tribune Company will control 11 daily newspapers, 19 magazines and 22 major television stations, becoming the third largest newspaper chain after Gannett and Knight Ridder.

To learn how you can act locally on this issue, contact the Center for Media Education at (203)331-7833 or visit their Web site at: www.cme.org

This week's summary of under-reported news
Compiled from alternative media sources by Bob Nixon

• World Press Review, March 2000: Standard of living falling under Afghanistan's Taliban regime as opposition warlords receive aid from Russia and Turkey.
  
• Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 29, 2000: U.S. Forest Service putting heavy growth restrictions on major ski resorts.
  
• In These Times, March 20, 2000: Black activists critical of Rev. Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Project and new perspectives toward free market capitalism.