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Thursday, Sept 6, 2001 - Start Audio -00:00 Dennis Bernstein: Protestant militiamen attack Holy Cross girls primary school in Belfast. w Bobby Lavery, former Sinn Fein representative, whose granddaugher is registered to attend Holy Cross school.. yesterday a pipe bomb attack near the school, near to where a group of girls was walking to school.. policemen injured.. why this is happening.. children have a right to go to school.. and through the front door.. Prostestants also blasting noisemakers at the children walking to school to scare them.. Bobby: over 200 attacks on Catholics this year alone..
-10:20 Noelle Hanrahan: w Fred Ho, musician, and author of Legacy to Liberation.. also w Donna Wilmet of Jericho Amnesty Movement, host of this weekends fundraiser for the Tear Down the Walls Conference in Cuba (about U.S. political prisoners). The Cuba conference is at the end of March, the fundraiser is this Saturday, 7PM at the Alice Arts Center, 1428 Alice Street, Oakland.. Fred Ho will give a solo baritone sax concert.. about the importance of art in prison.. Fred: about matriarchal societies.. about patriarchical capitalism.. how oppression will finally end (great discussion)
-28:00 Dennis Bernstein w Hussein Ibish of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.. Hussein Ibish: about the Israeli death squad hits, gangland style murders.. politics ala the Godfather.. Israel a gangster state, rubs out its enemies.. about the World Conference Against Racism.. U.S. objects to any critical discussion of Israel, or of its own racism or of reparations for slavery.. it\'s not an argument over language.. see article 33 in the draft declaration..
view whole draft document)




It doesn\'t single out Israel, but the U.S. nixed it.. U.S. saying to the Palestinians, you have no rights whatsoever.. because you are not Jewish.. a triumph that the world said to Israel and the U.S., \'you can go\'.. the only country that tried to blackmail the whole conference was the U.S... Dennis: the plight of the Palestinians contextualized.. about the massive Israeli propoganda machine.. Mr. Ibish: a vast network in the media.. includes the so-called \'Christian\' right.. also elements of the U.S. military industrial complex.. Israel in the last few months has spent 100 million dollars on public relations.. talking points go out from Sharon\'s office.. end up on right wing journalists desks.. you can see the machinery, reverse engineer the talking points.. how powerful the grip on the media is.. about the rightward slide of CNN
-40:00 music break..
-41:00 Noelle Hanrahan w Robert Knight on the continuing violence at WBAI.. Robert details the toxic hostile environment at WBAI.. (*a short tape of Clayton calling Robert a \'weak white woman or whatever you are\').. Robert: Clayton returned to WBAI by Utrice Leid..
-43:25 Robert: (tape/s of Clayton arguing with Robert,
tape of Clayton saying Robert was kissing that \'white bitch\'s ass\', tape of Clayton arguing w Robert and Amy)
-47:20 Robert: I have seen Clayton knock a person out cold in a fit of anger.. (Tape of Clayton\'s assault and menacing against Robert).
-50:00
Noelle: Robert detailing the violent atmosphere at WBAI.. Robert: Clayton referred to me as a \'weak white woman\'.. a homophobic and mysogonistic slur, violating Pacifica\'s own rules..
-54:00 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart


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