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In this evening's edition of Subversity, Christian Sweeney, a UCB history graduate student worker and union spokesman, talks about what the contract means. A ratification vote will take place within a few weeks. The show airs from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County.
We then bring you today's newscast from Free Speech Radio. It features:
General Strike in South Africa
South Africa's powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions,
which
helped topple apartheid, are
now turning their attention to global trade. About half of the
country's workers walked off the job this
week to protest U.S. Congress's passage of the Africa Growth and
Opportunity Act, along with South
African government policies. Patrick Bond reports from Johannasberg.
Diamonds and Sierra Leone
Renewed fighting in Sierra Leone this week as nine UN
peacekeepers
were wounded, three critically,
after a friendly fire incident in which government troops mistook
them for rebels in captured UN
uniforms. The incident coincided with reports from civilians that
rebels, holding 500 hostages, were
advancing on the capital, Freetown. Military officials say that
government and UN troops have held the
rebels back with the help of British paratroopers. The rebel
Revolutionary United Front, notorious for
forcing children to fight and hacking off the limbs of civilians,
hold the country's valuable diamond fields.
Max Pringle spoke with Ian Smiley, an analyst with the Canadian group
Partnership for Africa. He says
the diamond trade has played a major role in the nine year civil war.
Who is Vicente Fox?
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party has maintained a seven
decades long grip on power, largely
through electoral fraud and corruption. Enter Vicente Fox, an upstart
candidate and former governor of
the state of Guanajuato. Stumping for votes around Mexico, Fox has
managed to make a big dent in
the PRI's lead. Free Speech Radio's Kent Patterson has more on this
unlikely political spoiler.
California Prison Teachers Don't Teach
In March, California voters overwhelmingly passed Prop. 21, the
get-tough juvenile justice measure
which allows children as young as fourteen to be tried as adults. In
the coming years, the measure will
likely put thousands of kids behind bars. Most of these young felons
will go to California youth authority
prisons, where instances of brutality are common. Aaron Glantz
reports from Sacramento.
Lawyers for World Bank/IMF Protesters Ready Police Brutality Suit
While the police department seemed more restrained on the streets
of
Washington than in Seattle,
officials behind the scenes cracked down on IMF/World Bank activists.
Demonstrators jailed during last
month's protests say they were physically and psychologically abused
by law enforcement. They also
say they were intimidated and deceived by judges and court appointed
attorneys. Laawyers for the
defendents are gearing up for a class action suit. Alison Hawkes
reports.
Forbidden Love in Kosovo
They're both from Kosovo; she' s Serb, he's an Albanian. She
risked
her life during the last year's
bombing to help her albanian boyfriend and family. He'll never forget
that she's estranged from her family
for choosing to be with him. They've stuck it out all these years,
but the lingering resentment in Kosovo
is costing them dearly. Sputnik Kilambi reports from Prishtina on a
Balkan love story....
Credits
Free Speech Radio News is a production of Pacifica Reporters Against
Censorship. Over 40 freelance reporters in 14 states and four
continents are boycotting the Pacifica Network News for censoring
legitimate news stories. These reporters are risking their
livelihoods.
For more info. on the Free Speech Radio News, check out: http://www.savepacifica.net/strike/news
dan Daniel C. Tsang Host, Subversity, now Fridays, 5-6 p.m. KUCI, 88.9 FM selected shows available as RealAudio files URL: go.fast.to/sv E-mail: subversity@kuci.org Subversity, KUCI, PO Box 4362, Irvine CA 92616