Slain Latino Journalist Rubn Salazar, Killed 40 Years Ago in Police Attack, Remembered as Champion of Chicano Rights
Democracy Now - 31 Aug 2010
Rubn Salazar was one of the most well-known Latino journalists of the twentieth century and one of the few journalists killed while reporting in the United States. This Sunday marked the fortieth anniversary of his death. He was killed on August 29th, 1970, when he was struck in the head by a tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff’s deputy into an East Los Angeles bar as he was covering the massive National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, a massive antiwar march that drew some 30,000 people to LA’s Eastside. For forty years, speculation and controversy have swirled around what happened. We remember the life and legacy of Salazar and the Chicano Moratorium. [includes rush transcript]

Draft UN Report Accuses Rwandan Troops of Committing Genocide in the Congo
Democracy Now - 31 Aug 2010
Rwanda is facing explosive allegations from the United Nations of committing war crimes and possibly even genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A leaked report from the UN high commissioner for human rights says that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Tutsi-led Rwandan troops and their rebel allies killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group inside the Congo. [includes rush transcript]

Headlines for August 31, 2010
Democracy Now - 31 Aug 2010
Obama to Declare End to Combat Operations in Iraq, UN: Iraq Still Faces Humanitarian Crisis, Gibbs: US Is Increasing Fight Against al-Qaeda in Africa and Southeast Asia, Obama Administration Sued over Plan to Assassinate US Citizens, 19 US Troops Killed Since Saturday in Afghanistan, Anti-Mosque Rhetoric in US Reportedly Boosts Taliban Recruitment, Candlelight Vigil in Tennessee Condemns Arson at Mosque Site, Predator Drones to Begin Patrolling Texas-Mexico Border, Suspected Drug Lord Captured in Mexico, Obama Urges Senate GOP to Pass $30 Billion Jobs Bill, One in Six Americans Now Enrolled in Anti-Poverty Programs, Mice, Maggots, Manure Found at Factory Egg Farms Linked to Salmonella Outbreak, Four African Union Troops Killed in Somalia

What the wall has done
Electronic Intifada - 31 Aug 2010
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rIsrael began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed “Operation Defensive Shield.” The immense scale of the 2002 invasion—characterized by the destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, mass arrests, assassinations and massacres—ensured that the construction of the wall would commence with as little resistance as possible. Jamal Juma’ comments.