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...anti-junta rallies span a wider spectrum than just Thaksin's supporters. Democracy advocates took to the streets to decry the September coup. Anti-poverty campaigners who claim the junta has not adequately addressed the plight of Thailand's rural poor raised their voices, as did employees of community-radio stations banned from the airwaves by the interim government. Legal activists condemned what they believe is deteriorating judicial freedom under the military leadership. And Buddhists, who are upset their faith was not designated as the national religion in the draft of the postcoup constitution, also marched en masse. "The anti...
Zakia Zaki, 35, who ran the U.S.-funded Peace Radio in Afghanistan, was shot seven times while sleeping with her baby. Another Afghan woman, newscaster Shokiba Sanga Amaaj, 22, was murdered a week before. As violence against women in Afghanistan rises, especially targeting those who have embarked on careers, can the U.S. Congress help? It earmarked $45 million--twice the 2002 amount--for Afghan government groups and NGOs dedicated to empowering women and girls. The act came too late for Zaki: it passed June 6, the day she died...
REBEL COUNTRY musicians have not had an easy time of it (see the Dixie Chicks), but their path to acceptance was eased immeasurably by radio pioneer Laura Ellen Hopper. In 1975 Hopper co-founded the cultish, eclectic, now defunct California station KFAT, still widely revered for its rejection of the conservative country establishment and its support of quirky artists from John Prine to Jerry Jeff Walker. Those and newer stars like Iris DeMent got a bigger push at her more successful second home, KPIG, where as founder and program director she promoted and popularized the alternative country sound of Americana...
...emotional BBC radio interview, Yoko Ono reveals JOHN LENNON was headed to dinner the night he died but decided to return home, where he was shot. Ono says his last words were, "Let's go home, because I want to see [son] Sean before he goes to sleep." SCORE...
...spectrum than just Thaksin acolytes. Democracy advocates have taken to the streets to decry the use of army tanks over ballot boxes. Anti-poverty campaigners who claim the junta has not adequately addressed the plight of Thailand's rural poor have raised their voices, as have employees of community-radio stations banned from the airwaves by the junta. Legal activists, including a veteran former judge, have condemned what they believe is deteriorating judicial freedom under the military leadership. And Buddhists, who are upset that their faith was not designated as the national religion in the draft of the post-coup...