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What Happened in Seattle?Selected media coverage of labor, environmental and ecojustice issues surrounding the events in Seattle, Washington concerning the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization, 29 November - 3 December 1999 .
One World-- News and Radio 
- Interview with Peter Armstrong, Director and Founder of OneWorld. [Interview with Sam Tucker, 1997 Progressive Networks.]
- Today's News from OneWorld
- Information on Downloading Radio Archives
- Index of Downloadable Radio Clips [ A large list ].
- Liquid Assets: Your water - costs and consequences Panos Institute -- Panos Media Briefing: Liquid Assets
Over the last century, human demand for water has increased at double the rate of population growth. There's still enough water for everybody, yet only a third of the world's people have access to proper water and sanitation facilities. Panos looks at the most important of our liquid assets.Monsanto Biotechnology
speaking during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh in October. Two years ago the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Auckland was overshadowed by the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other campaigners for Nigeria's Ogoni people. This is Ken Wiwa, Saro-Wiwa's son, speaking at a fringe meeting of the Edinburgh Commonwealth summit on the continuing abuses of human rights going on in Nigeria.
- 8 May 1998 --
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the evacuation from Love Canal. Love Canal first hit the headlines in 1978 as an entire community struggled with the fact that it was living on top of a toxic waste dump. Within weeks, a grassroots movement forced national decision-makers to pay heed, and the community was evacuated. Love Canal entered modern mythology as one of the most notorious environmental scandals in the world. Yet, 20 years later, homes at Love Canal have been resold and approximately 50,000 similar sites remain.
Love Canal may never gave become so widely known without the leadership of the young Niagara Falls housewife who organized her community and went on to become an international folk heroine: Lois Gibbs. In Love Canal: The Story Continues..., Gibbs gives the blow-by-blow account of how she and other Love Canal residents first became aware of health problems caused by 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals buried beneath the ground. Children playing barefoot in their backyards were discovered to have burned feet, and alarming numbers of neighbors were plagued with mysterious diseases. Faced with denial and empty reassurances from the government, Gibbs persisted, and eventually 900 families were relocated.
On Capitol hill yesterday, Congress held a hearing on the controversy.
Guest:
Lois Gibbs, is the executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. She is the recipient of over 20 prestigious awards including the Goldman Environmental Prize for North America, and an Honorary Doctorate at the State University of New York at Cortland. She is the author of Love Canal: the Story Continues... published by New Society Publishers.
- 30 September 1998 --
Democracy Now! documents for the first time Chevron's role in the killing of two Nigerian activists. The San Francisco-based oil company helped facilitate an attack by the feared Nigerian Navy and notorious Mobile Police (MOPOL). In an interview with Democracy Now!, a company spokesperson acknowledged that on May 28, 1998, the company transported Nigerian soldiers to their Parabe oil platform and barge in the Niger Delta, which dozens of community activists had occupied. The protesters were demanding that Chevron contribute more to the development of the impoverished oil region where they live.
Soon after landing in Chevron-leased helicopters, the Nigerian military shot to death two protesters, Jola Ogungbeje and Aroleka Irowaninu and wounded several others. Eleven activists were detained for three weeks.
During their imprisonment, one activist said he was hung from a ceiling fan hook for hours for refusing to sign a statement written by Federal authorities. Chevron is the third largest oil producer in Nigeria.
- Related Support Information from Pacifica Radio.
- 10 August 1998 --
Tape: Helen Caldicott, speaking at Peace Action's Annual Conference.
Yesterday in New Mexico, 300-400 demonstrators protested against resumed nuclear weapons production at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In what is believed to be the largest protest ever at the scandal-plagued nuclear lab, 66 people were detained-33 women and 33 men-for non-violent civil disobedience. The first to be arrested was actor-activist Martin Sheen.
Sheen's numerous acting credits include such movies as "Apocalypse Now" (1979), "The American President" (1995), "The War at Home" (1996) and "Spawn" (1997). In addition to his acting career, Martin Sheen--born Ramon Estevez--has been involved in anti-nuclear, environmental and animal rights activism, and has been arrested over 50 times for his participation in civil disobedience actions.
You're about to hear an interview done with Sheen yesterday during the Los Alamos protest, before he was detained by police.
Tape: Martin Sheen
Jane Tallents is with Trident Ploughshares 2000, an anti-nuclear disarmament group based in Scotland.
- Voices from the Nigerian Resistance. Democracy Now!'s page of audio-visual resources on the ongoing Nigerian struggle.
- 27 November 1998 --
In their new book The Future of American Progressivism, Harvard professors Cornel West and Roberto Unger reveal the country no longer engages in real political debate. West and Unger say progressives have failed to present a policy package to the American people. Michelle Garcia speaks with West and Unger about the dilemma and their solution.- 17 July 1998 --
Five weeks of negotiating over the constitution for an International Criminal Court end today. Verna Avery Brown interviews observers Andreas Zupach, in Rome, and Phyllis Bennis in Washington, who say the role of the U.S. in the process has been devastating.- 15 July 1998 --
An interfaith group is retracing the steps of the slave trade, and today it stopped outside the World Bank and IMF buildings in Washington, D.C. to hold a vigil. Don Rush spoke with some of the participants.- 3 June 1998 --
PNN Commentator David Helvarg is watching the fires in Mexico and taking in the silence about the cause... Global Warming, anyone?- 29 May 1998 --
Just last week, the Mexican government joined a suit pressing for migrant worker's rights in Maine. And now the Mexican government has filed suit in a case protecting migrant apple workers in Washington state. Meanwhile, US labor unions have been helping to organize Mexican workers. And much of this is being done under the auspices of NAFTA. Michelle Garcia reports.- 19 May 1998 --
In Geneva, massive protests have greeted the World Trade Organization meeting. Mark Bevis investigates just why so many people are so mad, and at whom.- 30 April 1998 --
Michelle Garcia looks at the controversy over organic food regulations. Why do so many people care what the USDA declares "organic?" The period for public comment on the USDA's proposed rules ends today.- 22 April 1998 --
On Earth Day, Los Angeles Communities for a Better Environment, an environmental justice group toured toxic hot spots in predominately Latino and African American communities. In addition, they will kicked off a three year campaign to identify toxic hazards and help people organize to fight policies that have permitted lethal chemicals to pollute the air, water and soil in communities of color. Robin Urevich reports in Los Angeles.- 17 April 1998 --
Today marks the second anniversary of a massacre in Brazil, when government troops killed 19 landless agricultural workers participating in a protest for land. Daniel Correia, a leader of the Landless Workers movement (MST) talks with Laura Flanders.
Related sites:
Time.com - "Brazil's Landless Rebels"
Reuters - "Brazil Land Violence Persists After Massacre"- 17 April 1998 --
In Mexico last weekend, American human rights observers were ejected from Chiapas. Since then, militarization in the region has caused local men to flee, leaving women and children vulnerable. Mariana Mora just returned from the region and reports for PNN from San Cristobel de Casis.
Related links:
Yahoo full coverage of Chiapas conflict- April 14, 1998 --
The Mexican government expelled twelve North Americans over Easter weekend, after they witnessed a military operation to shut down a Zapatista-controlled town in Chiapas. Verna Avery Brown talks Jeffrey Conant, one of the deportees.- 10 April 1998 --
The Mexican government would like the world to believe that the threat posed by the Zapatistas is minimal, but it keeps deploying more troops to Chiapas. Frank Contreras investigates why.- 10 April 1998 --
John Sayles is the editor, producer and director of a new film about conflict in Latin America. He talked to Mario Murillo of Our Americas about the wars most people would rather keep in the dark about.- 8 April 1998 --
Critics Review Pros and Cons of IMF
The IMF has agreed on its third plan for Indonesia and even some former critics of the plan appear to be willing to go along. Mark Bevis talks to Rep. Bernie Sanders and others about the pros and cons of the Fund. Is the world better off with or without the IMF?- 3 April 1998 --
The President's message to Africa has been that the continent should move beyond dependency on foreign aid. Was this just cover for lower aid offerings? And if trade with the U.S. is the alternative to aid, who is setting the terms? Mark Bevis investigates.- 27 March 1998 --
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was murdered 23 years ago, on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Her assassins have never been indicted. Anna Mae was an activist in the American Indian Movement. Today would have been her 53rd birthday. We have this reflection, in honor of women's history month, on Anna Mae Aquash and the questions still lingering about her brutal death.- 26 March 1998 --
South Africa is the second largest U.S. trading partner in Africa, second to Nigeria. The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union has just launched an campaign to win the release of Frank Kokori and Milton Dabibi, two Nigerian oil union leaders who've been imprisoned by the military regime since 1994 and 1996, respectively. The campaign is promoting and international boycott of Nigerian crude oil, with protests/leafleting at Philadelphia-area Sun Oil refineries. Verna Avery Brown reports.
Related links:
Free Nigeria
Shell Oil and Nigeria Site
NPR Audio News - Directory
- Selected NPR Stories for Reference.
- All Things Considered Archive
- NPR Program Search Engine
- Morning Edition Archive
- Sounds Like Science Archive
- Your Turn Discussion Forum
- InFocus - RealVideo in service of environmental information, and reform.
- Site of the Week interview archive
- Fred Krupp, Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund - 9/8/97.
- Peter Armstrong, Director of OneWorld - 8/18/97.
- Pranay Gupte, editor and publisher of the Earth Times - 8/11/97.
- Bill Meadows, president of the Wilderness Society - 7/14/97.
- Conn Nugent, managing partner of the Liberty Tree Alliance - 6/9/97.
- Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group - 4/21/97
- Jim Leape, Senior VP of the World Wildlife Fund - 4/7/97
- Vikki Spruill, Executive Director of SeaWeb - 3/3/97
- John Adams, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council - 2/3/97
- Howard Ris , of the Union of Concerned Scientists - 12/30/96
- Ed Schwartz, president of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values - 10/14/96
- Deb Callahan, President of the League of Conservation Voters - 7/15/96
- Jay Townsend, Creative Manager for Greenpeace USA - 6/3/96
- Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day - 4/15/96
- Josh Knauer of the EnviroLink Network - 3/4/96
- Robert Cox of the Sierra Club - 2/26/96
- Phil Clapp of the Environmental Information Center - 11/20/95
- Miller and Stephen Schowengerdt with, Environmental News Network - 10/30/95
- Langston James "Kimo" Goree, Content Director for Linkages - 9/18/95
- Geoff Sears, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Communications - 8/14/95
BBC -Guide to audio on World Service
Current News
BBC - Current News Summary (Video)
- World Today -- Europe
- World Today -- East Asia
- World Today -- South Asia
One Planet -- BBC Environment Program
Australian philosopher Peter Singer. On 26th May 1998 in a special edition of One Planet, BBC World Service's development and environment series, Zina Rohan talked to Australian philosopher Peter Singer.
Professor Singer has achieved a rare academic feat - fame beyond the ivory tower. Born in 1946 (the son of Viennese Jews) Singer studied post-graduate philosophy at Oxford University. His book Animal Liberation published in 1975 when Singer was only 29 became the bible the world-wide animal rights movement. Since then Professor Singer's writings have covered a vast array of topics - from the environment, to medical ethics to charity. His 20-or so books with titles such as 'Practical Ethics' and 'The Way We Should Live', focus not on dry academic minutiae, but on big, live moral debates. He believes philosophy should change the world, not just describe it. And Singer tries to practice what he preaches - he's active, for example, in green politics; he's a doer as well as a thinker.
BBC World Lectures Series
Current News - from the Environmental News Network
Contains various good sources of current news. ENN serves as a platform for the diffusion of different audio programs including Earthwatch Radio , Great Lakes Radio and the Environment Show, hosted by Peter Berle from WAMC in Albany, New York.Click here for access to Selected Programs from the Past of the WAMC "Environment Show" via ENN Multimedia.
See, for example, the Environment Show program of July 24 1998 which contains an interview with Robert Bullard , Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. The issues discussed deal with the siting of toxic facilities in or near communities of color. As Professor Bullard suggests, the first principle of the environmental justice movement is that communities should be at the table from the outset in planning the siting of toxic facilities.
See, also Environmental Justice with brief and somewhat incipid definition by EPA official on program of July 24 1998 .
Also consult a re-packaging of the same sound byte interview with "Running-Grass" at the EPA. "The Environmental Justice Movement has really researched and illustrated for the nation the fact that environmental harms and environmental benefits are distributed and experienced by people on the basis of class and race," says Running-Grass, an Environmental Justice Specialist with the Environmental Protection Agency. The response? "A movement of people of color communities -- grass roots communities -- to transform the whole notion of environmental protection and environmentalism in the country." To find out more, tune in to Earthnews Radio, or email: earth@enn.com. Story by ENN Affiliate Science Interchange
Current News - from the High Plains News Service
The High Plains News Service contains various sources of current news from the Rocky Mountain west. HPNS fills the growing void between local news, and national and international programming. HPNS is the only news and information program covering the Rocky Mountain and Northern Great Plains Region. HPNS not only covers issues important to the Western Region, but also serves as a missing link, connecting rural citizens across the nation.
Building the Network...The High Plains News Service takes a leading role in building a regional, community news network. We provide training and professional support to both novice and veteran radio reporters. HPNS producers provide stories for other radio networks, building coalitions and a growing recognition of HPNS as the news network of the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Region.
Current
Selected Items from Past High Plains Broadcasts
Archive of News - from the Great Lakes Radio Consortium
- See also, Louisiana Environmental Justice issues:
WWW.Freespeech.Org and FStv -- Free Speech T.V.
- Selected Stories from Living on Earth Archive.
- Selected Interviews from Past GreenWave Radio Programs.
Arco Forum - John F. Kennedy School of Government - Speakers Archives
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