Flashpoints Jan16, 2003: talk w/ISM Nablus ambulance rider; Sister Helen Prejean

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Thursday, Jan 16, 2003 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: interview with Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, on Governor Ryan's clearing of death row.. more bloodshed on the West Bank, report from an international ambulance worker in bloody, bloody Nablus..
-00:57 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: South Korea says it is preparing for a worse case scenario.. in Africa, Ivory Coast peace talks enter second day.. cannabalism alledged in Congo.. UN inspectors examine 11 empty chemical warheads in southern Iraq.. Hans Blix says Iraq had imported banned items, but discouraged any 'smoking gun' speculation by January 27.. Charles Wall will become the second US General to visit Tel Aviv.. Israeli astronaut.. Hugo Chazez asks for help from Kofi Annon.
-04:16 Dennis: violent occupation of Palestine continues.. a whole village demolished.. now w International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Anne Gwynn in Nablus.. Anne: Nablus under 292 straight days of strict shoot to kill military curfew (Jaggi Shing report) (ISM report) (CCMEP photos) (AlJazeerah photos).. people arrested with no charge, as many as fifteen at a time.. I heard tanks today, looked out to see four enormous tanks, accompanied by an enormous bulldozer and jeeps.. then I heard more coming right down the side street.. into the residential center.. in the city center of a 3,000 year old city.. Dennis: you're a 65 year old grandmother, why are you there?.. Anne: an American woman, married to a Palestinian man, the wife deported to Switzerland, not allowed to stay with him.. Dennis: we're hearing reports of the closing of universities, home demolitions.. Anne: I have been priviledged to go out in the ambulances.. the only international to be allowed to do so.. the Israelis have killed 20 ambulance drivers, and destroyed 85 ambulances.. people attacked by huge bullets, actually blow a child's head off.. one driver told me he picked up a young child shot straight in the head.. nothing left.. I looked at the stones the kids throw, little stones, nothing could hurt a soldier.. the soldiers respond with large *shoot to kill* bullets.. a young man shot in the heart, not an accident.. another man fighting for his life, shot in the groin, massive bloodloss, because when the ambulance gets to a checkpoint, it always has to wait.. another driver picked up a child that had been killed, looked normal, but its brains blown out of its head.. none of the ambulance drivers can sleep, all have horrendous nightmares..
-13:17 music break
-14:54 Dennis: Sister Helen Prejean is maybe the most high profile opponent of the death penalty, author of Dead Man Walking.. about her response to Illinois Governor Ryan's clearing of death row.. now w Sister Helen Prejean: (no review would do justice to this segment, please listen yourself)..

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003 - Start Audio

about the case of Gary Graham (link2), aka Shaka Sankofa.. now w Excerpts: from a documentary, Deadly Ambition, made about Graham's case.. about the late night murder of an alledged drug dealer, Bobby Lambert.. convicted on the testimony of just one eyewitness.. two other eyewitnesses say the killer was definitely not Gary Graham.. one saw him from just two feet away.. gave witness to the police, but were never called to court.. and police knew that the gun found on Gary Graham was not the murder weapon.. was never mentioned in court.. convicted after only a day and a half in court.. his attorney made no arguments.. that was his only appearance ever..