"Unwelcome Guests at a Coronation"
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Protests at the Presidential Inauguration of George W. Bush

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Doris "Granny D" Haddock, activist who, at the age of 90, walked 3,200 miles across the country to build grassroots support for campaign finance reform, speaking at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park, Washington, D.C. Granny D celebrated her 95th birthday over the weekend.

Aidan Delgado, U.S. Army Reserve soldier, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park, in Washington, D.C.

The Raging Grannies, acapella singing group at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C.

Interview with investigative journalist and former National Security Agency analyst Wayne Madsen, at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2005, on journalist Seymour Hersh's New Yorker magazine report that the Bush administration is planning airstrikes against Iran.

David Cobb, 2004 Green Party presidential candidate at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcom X Park in Washington, D.C. In Ohio, Cobb and Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik demanded a recount of the vote and worked to investigate and expose voter suppression, voter fraud , flaws in election machinery and other irregularities that many progressives feel changed the outcome of the presidential election.

Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the human rights group Global Exchange and the women's peace group Code Pink -- two organizations that have been actively involved in organizing the U.S. antiwar movement, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C. Benjamin has traveled several times to Iraq and in January 2005, she organized a delegation of families of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq and victims of the 9-11 attacks to bring $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the survivors of the American attack on Fallujah.

Stan Goff, an author and former soldier in the U.S. Army's Special Operations force who has served in Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C. He is a founding member of the Bring Them Home Now campaign and member of Military Families Speak Out.

Brian Becker, co-director of the International Action Center and national coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, speaks to thousands of anti-Bush protesters assembled near Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue and 4th Street, moments before President Bush's motorcade traveled down the traditional parade route for the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2005. The crowd can be heard booing and chanting as his limousine and police escorts sped by.

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For The Week Ending Jan. 28, 2005

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM New Palestinian Leader Confronts Familiar Obstacles in Restarting Peace Talks For story text and audio, Click here! Right-wing Talk Show Host Armstrong Williams Implicated in Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda Campaign For story text and audio, Click here! Faith-based Group Calls for Grassroots Resistance to Iraq War For story text and audio, Click here! Underreported News Summary from Around the World For full summary and audio, Click here! LISTEN to this week's half-hour program of Between The Lines by clicking on one of the links below. MP3 files available until Feb. 1, 2005. RealAudio for streaming (Dialup or fast connections. Instant playback. Needs RealPlayer 7 or 8) Get RealPlayer here! Consumer-quality MP3 for dialup or fast connection (Links to www.radio4all.net) download. Needs QuickTime Player or your favorite MP3 player. For broadcast/Webcast quality MP3 file formats, click here! This week we present Between The Lines' summary of under-reported news stories and: New Palestinian Leader Confronts Familiar Obstacles in Restarting Peace Talks Interview with Ali Abunimah, writer and activist, conducted by Scott Harris After the Jan. 9 election of Mahmoud Abbas to succeed the late Yasir Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority, there was renewed hope among many Western observers for a revival of the long stalled Middle East peace talks. But shortly after Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, was sworn into office, those hopes were dashed. An attack by Palestinian militants on a Gaza checkpoint, killing six Israeli civilians on Jan. 13 prompted Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon to suspend all contacts with Abbas and his government. In the face of Israeli threats to stage a large retaliatory raid into northern Gaza to stop rocket and mortar attacks there against Israelis, Abbas has ordered his security force to crack down on armed Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. While Abbas has publicly characterized assaults against Israel as "counterproductive," many Palestinians frustrated with decades of occupation support the militant fighters and their strikes, which include suicide bombings. The renewed tension comes as Sharon's government prepares to dismantle Israeli settlements in Gaza this summer. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with writer and activist Ali Abunimah, who assesses the chances for peace following the election of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian Authority president. Writer and activist Ali Abunimah is a founder of the Electronic Intifada website www.electronicintifada.net Right-wing Talk Show Host Armstrong Williams Implicated in Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda Campaign Interview with Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, conducted by Scott Harris While much of the media was focused on the CBS television network's internal investigation into its "60 Minutes" program's mishandling of a pre-election story on President Bush's National Guard service, another more disturbing scandal emerged involving right-wing commentator Armstrong Williams. Williams, who writes a column and hosts radio and TV talk shows, accepted $240,000 from the Education Department to promote the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act legislation, then pending before Congress. As part of the Education Department's million-dollar contract with the Ketchum Public Relations firm, Williams was obligated to endorse the president's education policy and interview Secretary of Education Rod Paige on his TV show, broadcast nationally, and carried on 51 stations owned by the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group. Federal regulations prohibit broadcast journalists from accepting funds in exchange for promoting certain points of view without fully disclosing sponsorship information to its audience. After receiving some 18,000 letters urging the Federal Communications Commission to take action against Williams, FCC Chair Michael Powell launched an investigation into Armstrong Williams' conduct. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Josh Silver, executive director of the group Free Press, who looks at the Armstrong Williams scandal and the wider problem of media consolidation. Contact Free Press toll free at 1-866-666-1533 or visit their website at www.freepress.net Related links: "Under public pressure, Powell launches investigation into 'Payola Pundit,'" www.freepress.net, Jan. 14, 2005 FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: www.fair.org Media Channel: www.mediachannel.org "FCC: Public Be Damned," by John Nichols and Robert McChesney, online atwww.thenation.com. Also see the pair's new book, "Our Media, Not Theirs," published by Seven Stories Press. Robert McChesney is also author of the book "Rich Media, Poor Democracy": at www.robertmcchesney.com Faith-based Group Calls for Grassroots Resistance to Iraq War Call to Resist, sponsored by Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice, produced by Melinda Tuhus On Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, a faith-based group in Connecticut, Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice, commemorated Dr. King's call for an end to the war in Vietnam. Members of the group read the names of all the U.S. service members killed thus far in the Iraq war, alternating with the names of some of the Iraqi civilians who have died, numbering an estimated 100,000 . Then the group issued a call to resist the current war, based on a statement written by author and activist Jeremy Brecher. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus was there and filed this report. Visit the group's website at www.reclaimingthepropheticvoice.com This week's summary of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has granted more than 300 million acres of public lands to ranchers for grazing their cattle, in a deal heavily subsidized by American taxpayers. Eco-activists call cattle ranching one of the most destructive uses of the fragile environment of the American west, with widespread damange to water quality, soil erosion and threats to endangered and threatened species. 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