Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday October 21st, 2009.

Don Bechler, organizer for Single Payer Now, speaks at the anti-war rally on the need for a single payer health care system instead of adaptations of the current high-cost, low yield system. He rightfully compares U.S. health care and war policy as two sides of the same coin. It was really encouraging to hear two labor speakers and others also call for single payer. For more information and to get involved locally in the growing movement, which Bechler reports has almost doubled in size in the past year, go to singlepayernow.net (5:16)

Hear 45 minutes of audio from the anti-war demonstation at U.N. Plaza before and after the march on Market Street. Moderator Jeff Mackler reported from the podium that his was a unified action with 5 major anti-war organizations. The action drew with a modest and spirited turnout. Speakers called for an end to the wars in Iraq, Afganistan, and Palestine, bring the troops home, and to use these resources for unmet human needs here in the U.S. Speakers bring topics including organized labor; oil industry influence on Middle East policy; the need for single payer health care; and free the Cuban 5. Jeff Mackler and Chris Banks moderate from the stage.

While Oscar Grants killer roams the streets free on bail, Alex is denied justice. FREE ALEX SANCHEZ!

An analysis of the UN climate talks in Bangkok with Saleemul Huq - a veteran who has been to “practically all of them”. 30 mins.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday October 20th 2009.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday October 19th 2009.

On Saturday evening at Semora Spraoi RAG were screened two abortion rights documentaries, 'The Coat Hanger Project' and 'Abortion Democracy : Poland/South Africa'. The makers of both documentaries were present so the screenings were introduced by them and there was a wide ranging discussion after the films had been show. The audio of the introductions can be listened to below.

Minister Keith Muhammad attended all four days of Johannes Mehserle's change of venue motion and in this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant reports on events as they took place inside of the courtroom. Oscar Grant's uncle Cephus Johnson says that no matter where Mehserle's trial is held he believes that justice will be achieved in the end. Jack Bryson, father of two of Oscar Grant's friends who were on the BART platform when Oscar was killed, recalled a beating one of his son's friends recently received from the Hayward police, who have been harassing Oscar Grant's friends since January 1st.

In 2007 Blackwater hires launched a massacre in the heart of Baghdad, turning a crossroads of traffic into a bucket of blood. The incident fueled anti- U.S. insurgency and splashed egg on the face of US puppet and Iraqi Prime Minister, Nur al-Malid, who demanded that the company be expelled from Iraq. They're still there. Any lost contracts? Nope. Indeed, the Obama administration just announced new contracts with Blackwater (under its new corporate name, XE)

All photos © Michael Gallagher 2009

Venezuelanalysis News Summary: (Audio- 10mins, 24secs) Government Builds Genetics Research Center and Special Classrooms for Venezuela's Disabled - Venezuela Elected to UNESCO Executive Council - Venezuela Moves Up Four Positions in U.N. Human Development Ranking -Venezuela and U.K. Sign Anti-Drug Trafficking Agreement - Venezuela and Ecuador Advance Bilateral Cooperation - Venezuela Nationalizes Hilton Hotel - Urban Land Committees Demand Law Reform - Venezuela Grants Land to Indigenous Communities On Indigenous Resistance Day -Venezuelan Yukpa Indigenous Community Attacked - Venezuelan Poll: Chavez Enjoys High Approval Rating - Venezuelan Economic Measures Prioritize National Production - Venezuela Re-Stocks Subsidized Food Markets Amid Continued Inflation

Sinêad Ahern of Choice Ireland and Dr. Geraldine Moane of UCD made the case for a woman's right to choose at a recent debate in Dublin.

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 10th to the 16th, 2009

This afternoon notts police contacted an individual asking for a meeting to "have a chat".

Attached is a recording of a covert recording made with the PR company (Finsbury PR) that have successfully ensured the British company, Vedanta Resources, can go ahead and mine bauxite in the lands of the Dongria Kondh tribe.

Please pass this recording on, and ensure that the activities of PR companies are exposed.

On today's show... * County Executive Onorato's Gubernatorial Announcement is Marred by Protest * National protests denounce 8 years of occupation in Afghanistan * We investigate who is responsible for the pollution that killed Dunkard Creek. * A special archival Word on the Street segment on Columbus Day in Pittsburgh * And more in our local and global headlines

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday October 12, 2009

Yesterday Europe blocked the protection of natural forests at the Bangkok Climate Talks. Is the Prince of Wales Rainforest Project (PRP) Emergency Package a viable alternative solution for forests? We speak to Tony Juniper, special advisor to PRP and former director of Friends of the Earth.