This Week in Palestine - a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, March 11th to Thursday, March 17th, 2005.

Weekly Audio Report
Friday, March 11 – Thursday, March 17, 2005

This Week in Palestine - a service of the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC.org, for the week of Friday, March 11th to Thursday, March 17th, 2005.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, China, and Russia.

Dear Radio Friend,
            The latest Shortwave Report (March 18) is up at the website
in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (3.3MB) (29:00)

30:30 minute Audio story of Rally in front of Phoenix Museum after "Live" broadcast of Air America with Al Franken by organization to Save Social Security. Al speaks also outside to Save S.S.

Join the Arizonans United to Protect Social Security on March 16th outside the Phoenix Art Museum

Al Franken is expected to speak at the event!

The event is just one in a series of nationwide events taking place on March 16th. Come out and be part of the national effort to defend Social Security!

Expected Speakers:

This is a summary if israeli8 War Crimes in Palestine for the weeke ending 16 March 2005. 4mins (english)

PCHR
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

http://www.pchrgaza.org

Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
No. 10/2005

10- 16 Mar. 2005

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Launch More Attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

· 2 Palestinians were killed by IOF.

This 7:09 segment is about Centurion Ministries, an organization that has helped free over 30 wrongfully convicted prisoners.

interviews with organizers in Centurion Ministries

testimonies of freed prisoners

This 8-minute segment with music and interviews deals with the Supreme Court's decision to abolish the death penalty for juveniles.

interview with Toshi Kazama, photographer

interview with David Eliot, National coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

blackBox Radio

On this week's show: The Supreme Court decides to prohibit execution of juvenile offenders, Centurion Ministries exonerates wrongly convicted prisoners and a (HoustonIMC) interview with Fernando Suarez del Solar, founder of Aztec Warriors for Peace.

Listen to the show! [high quality (27MB) | lower quality (13.5MB)]

128kbps version

Your weekly wrap-up of North American police brutality, misconduct and corruption.

This week:

Ontario cop busted for grow op

Toronto cops spent over $30 million settling lawsuits

Retired Quebec cop charged with sex assault

Illinois cops suspended 30 days for shooting unarmed man who posed no threat

NY cop charged in conspiracy to defraud retirement home

Kentucky officer pleads guilty in child pornography case

West Virginia cop charged in domestic beating

Mississippi cop accused of brutality resigns

The US plans to wreck a British initiative to combat illegal logging, BBC's Newsnight reveals.

also brazil makes moves to protect people of the rainforest ( audio )

US blocks forest protection plan
By Roger Harrabin
Correspondent, BBC Newsnight

A secret US plan to wreck Tony Blair's G8 initiative combating illegal logging in the world's threatened rainforests has been revealed in a State Department memo leaked to the BBC's Newsnight.