From the Trenches 9-27-04 in four parts

By Anonymous (not verified) , 1 January, 2005
Author
Rita Sand

From the Trenches 9-27-04 in four parts, 32kbps mono
Part 1: 13:35min Indymedia news
Part 2: 12:57 min RNC protests
Part 3: 19:03 min Lawrence Witner, "The Power of Protest"
Part 4: 14:48min Institute of Medicine hearing 8-23-04

Part 1 -- Intro and News Stories: Lisa Smith on Affordable Housing, Tina Hernandez-Lasquety on the Immigrants Rights Rally 9-25-04, and Rita Sand on Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge submitting to a deposition on his participation in police torture. Also, friend and colleague of May Molina Ortiz, Annabelle Perez of Families of the Wrongly Convicted speaks out about the toxicology report on Molina's death.

Part 2 -- Story on the RNC protests in August as reported by New York City's Indymedia Center broadcast and we talk with two Chicagoans arrested at the protests.

See also http://nyc.indymedia.org/mod/search/dosearch/index.php?dosearch=1&searc…

Part 3 -- Mitchell Szczepanczyk speaks with Professor Lawrence Wittner of SUNY Albany about his article, The Power of Protest, in the July/August issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

See also http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=6237
. . . and http://www.albany.edu/history/wittner/

Part 4 -- Rita Sand reports on a report on the Institute of Medicine hearing on 8-23-04 to review access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink Database.

See also
http://www.iom.edu/subpage.asp?id=21757
. . . and http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=22482

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