-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy ----- As always, Caveat Lector. Links at site. Om K ----- <A HREF="http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow/dn990428.html">Democr acy NOW! </A> ----- April 28, 1999 on Democracy NOW! [listen to the entire program at 14.4] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [click to hear any story] NEWS HEADLINES Story: JOHN PILGER ON YUGOSLAVIA Once again, NATO is acknowledging that one of its bombs missed its target and landed in a residential neighborhood in Southern Serbia. According to Serb authorities, yesterday's attack killed at least 17 people, destroyed 50 houses and damaged 600 others in the town of Surdulica. While NATO continues to insist that it fires only on targets that are part of President Slobodan Milosevic's Kosovo "war machine", it has so far killed civilians on at least five separate bombings. Just this past Friday, 16 employees of Serbian television and radio were killed in a NATO strike on its headquarters. A few days ago, Amy Goodman had a chance to speak with John Pilger, award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and author of Hidden Agendas. Guest: •John Pilger, award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker. Speaking with Amy Goodman from London. Story: RACIST BOMBINGS IN THE UK As the U.S. deals with the aftermath of the Columbine High School shooting in Denver Colorado, Britain is grappling with a campaign of racial violence that is targeting people of color. This past April 17, a nail bomb exploded in the crowded market section of Brixton, a multiracial community in South London. Thirty-nine people were injured, including a 23-month-old boy who had a four-inch nail embedded in his skull. The following Saturday, another bomb exploded, this time in a busy section of Brick Lane, a Bangladeshi community in London. Six people were injured in that blast. A neo-Nazi group called Combat 18 claimed responsibility for both incidents. Combat 18 was formed in the 1980s, drawing members from fascist groups such as Britain's National Front. It was linked to a plot four years ago to send letter bombs to British athletes involved in interracial relationships. Now, the government is telling Britain's Black and Asian communities to be on full alert for new attacks in what the media have called the nation's worst outbreak of racist violence since the 1970's. Community groups suspect that the recent bombings are a backlash against coverage surrounding the Stephen Lawrence case. In 1993 Lawrence, a Black man, was stabbed to death by a gang of racist white youths in London. A botched police investigation of the murder-and a failure to bring Lawrence's killers to justice-- resulted in a massive public outcry throughout the U.K. This Saturday, several civil rights groups are planning to march from Brixton to Downing Street in protest of the bombings. Guests: •Asad Rehman, Chair of the Newham Monitoring Project, a group based in East London that deals with police violence and fascist activity. Speaking from London. •Martin Lee, author of the book The Beast Reawakens, which examines the resurgence of fascism worldwide. Related link: •Black Information Link in London Story: RACIAL PROFILING IN THE US New York City has agreed to pay $2.75 million to a man who said he was beaten on his way to work by at least five police officers because they said he fit the profile of a black suspect they were seeking. Despite the large settlement with the man, 42-year-old Harold Dusenbury, the city has admitted no wrongdoing in the 1996 case. Also in New York, a Black police officer, Yvette Walton, was recently dismissed from her job for speaking out against civil rights violations in the NYPD's Street Crime Unit, whose officers fired a barrage of 41 shots against Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo last February 4. This past February 19th, Walton testified before the New York City Council wearing a hooded jacket to protect herself from retaliation from her colleagues. She was fired thirty minutes after her testimony. This comes in the aftermath of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman's admission that New Jersey's state troopers engage in the practice of "racial profiling," stopping a disproportionate number of African American and Latino motorists for no other reason than the color of their skin. Meanwhile, in California, in response to widespread complaints of vehicle stops by police officers, state Senator Kevin Murray has introduced a bill named S.B. 78, or the "California Traffic Stops Statistics Act." S.B. 78 would require the police to collect data on race and traffic stops for research and statistical purposes. Last year, then-Governor Pete Wilson vetoed AB 1264, Murray's first attempt to require data collection on racial profiling. Guests: •Yvette Walton, a New York Police Officer from the Street Crimes Unit who testified before the City Council on April 19 about racial profiling in the unit. That afternoon, she was fired by the department. •Regina Felton, Attorney for Yvette Walton. •Bilal Ali, who is a member of the Coalition Against Police Abuse, and is on the National Coordinating Committee of the Black Radical Congress. Call the Coalition Against Police Abuse: 323.733.2107. •Diop Kamau, Executive Director of the Police Complaint Center, former police sergeant from Hawthorne, California. He went undercover to document police abuse with a camera, and was stopped by a white police officer, who threw him through a plate-glass window. Call Police Complaint Center: 800.681.1874. Related link: •Police Complaint Center Catch the evening news every day, Pacifica Network News. 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