DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGESTNovember 6, 2007
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TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:
* Guatemala's Indigenous Countryside Drives Election Victory Over
Atrocity-Linked General *
In an upset victory, Alvaro Colom, who ran on an anti-poverty platform, beat
the hard-line retired General Otto Perez Molina with close to 53 percent of
the vote. We get reaction from Guatemalan American writer Francisco Goldman.
His new book ³The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?²
implicates the defeated Perez Molina in the 1998 murder of beloved
Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi.
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/06/1623225* Thousands Arrested in Pakistan Defying Musharraf¹s Crackdown *
Thousands of lawyers, human rights activists and journalists were
tear-gassed, beaten and arrested Monday for protesting what they describe as
nothing short of martial law. We go to Pakistan to speak with journalist
Farzana Fiaz.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/06/1623229* New PBS Documentary Gives Voice to Victims of U.S. ³Extraordinary
Rendition² *
As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote today on the nomination
of retired judge Michael Mukasey to be attorney general, a new PBS
documentary features interviews with victims of extraordinary rendition
speaking for the first time on US television. We speak to investigative
journalist Stephen Grey.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/06/1623242* Headlines for November 6, 2007 *
- Thousands Arrested in Pakistan Protest Crackdown
- Bush Promises Intel Sharing on Kurds With Turkey
- Activists Stage Waterboarding Outside Justice Dept.
- Displaced Iraqis Quadruple Since U.S. Surge
- Israel: Peace Talks at End of Month
- Record Number of Detainees in U.S. Immigration Jails
- Contractor Guilty in Bribery Trial
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COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007:
* The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Michael
Mukasey as attorney general despite his refusal to condemn
waterboarding as a form of torture. We'll play excerpts of the
confirmation vote.
* Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine," joins us to discuss
disaster capitalism, from the wildfires in California to the floods in
Mexico.
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* Read Amy Goodman's latest column *
"For Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls"
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071030_for_whom_the_bells_palsy_tolls/Consider writing your local newspaper and asking for them to carry the
column, distributed by King Features. Many papers across the US have done
so already.
If you see the column in your paper, please mail us a copy of the full page,
to:
Democracy Now!
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New York, NY 10013
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