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For The Week Ending April 18, 2003
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMThis week we present Between The Lines' summary of under-reported news stories and:
Thousands Engage in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
Interview with Gordon Clark,
With U.S. and British troops now battling for control of Baghdad and occupying many of Iraq's other major cities, the discussion in American media has largely turned to the issue of post-war occupation. Although it is uncertain how and when this illegal war might end, it is clear that much of the international community, particularly the Arab and Islamic world, is viewing the thousands of civilian casualties and widespread destruction of Iraq with horror and outrage.
Here in the U.S., tens of thousands of opponents of the Bush administration's war continue their campaign of street protests and increasingly, since the war began -- employed the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience. In major cities and towns around the U.S. police have arrested thousands of protesters who have engaged in blockades and sit-ins at various symbolic targets including federal buildings and busy intersections. Some protests have targeted major U.S. media outlets for their bias in covering the war while others have aimed their demonstrations at companies like the Carlyle Group, a Republican Party-connected investment firm and military contractor.
One of the most recent violent confrontations between law enforcement and anti-war protesters took place on April 7th, when Oakland, Calif. police shot wooden dowel bullets, sting balls and beanbag rounds at several hundred picketers outside a shipping company handling U.S. military cargo. Some 20 protesters were injured and 30 arrested in what demonstration organizers described as an unprovoked attack -- denying charges that rock throwing by their members set off police violence.
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Gordon Clark, coordinator of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, who discusses the tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience now being practiced by thousands of opponents of the U.S. war on Iraq.
Contact the Iraq Pledge of Resistance by calling (301) 608-2450 or visit their Web site at www.peacepledge.org
and Deferred Land Reform Program
Interview with Dick Clapp
In parliamentary elections the last weekend in March, Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, continued to make gains. This was against a backdrop of increasing violence and repression from the government of President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980.
Opposition groups called a strike in mid-March that crippled the nation's economy for two days. The head of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangarai, issued a list of 15 demands to the government, which included restoring freedom of the press, the disbanding of government militias and th release of political prisoners. The March 31st deadline set for meeting these demands was ignored by Mugabe and his government.
Betwee The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Dick Clapp, a long-time Southern Africa solidarity activist who struggled against apartheid regimes there during the 1970s and '80s. He provides historical background to better understand the current political crisis in Zimbabwe, including the Lancaster House agreements of 1980, which provided the framework for the country's transition from the British colony of Southern Rhodesia to an independent African nation.
For more information, contact Africa Action by calling (202) 546-7961 or visit their Web site at www.africaaction.org
Will Determine the Level of Racial Diversity on College Campuses
Interview with Angelo Anchetta,
The University of Michigan defended its admissions policy of awarding extra points to African American, Native American and Latino student applicants on the basis of the school's effort to encourage diversity in its academic environment. But, the Bush administration's Solicitor General Theodore Olson argued that the university's programs are unconstitutional because the school hadn't pursued "race neutral" alternative methods to achieve diversity. Many observers noted that questions from the justices during the hearing indicated that the Supreme Court would likely uphold the constitutionality of most elements of affirmative action. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Angelo Anchetta, director of Legal and Policy Advocacy Programs at Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, who assesses the Supreme Court case challenging affirmative action programs and the state of race relations in America. Contact the project at (617) 496-6367 or visit their Web site at www.civilrightsproject.Harvard.edu
of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon
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