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Banamex Sues to Censor Narco.News: Tonight on WBAI Radio

by RTN (rtn [at] reclaimthe.net)
Tonight at 1.30 am EST Narco News Editor Alberto Giordano will talk about the efforts of Banamex (Bank of Mexico) to censor the website Narco.News by means of a libel lawsuit.
Join the discussion by calling 212.209.2900 or joining in online at http://reclaimthe.net/forum.
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March 21, 2001
Spread the Word on this Immediate History

Narco News on 99.5 FM New York City tonight will be simulcast worldwide on the internet at http://www.2600.com/ - 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

\"I\'m comin\' over to your house baby, even though it\'s late at night...\"

- a blues song

To our friends in New York City;
To our subscribers in 25 countries;
To the national and international press;
To the narco-lobbyists, spies and corrupt officials;
To defenders of free speech everywhere:


I am thousands of miles from my hometown of New York, but I am listening to New York radio, courtesy of the Internet. The blues singer says she\'s coming over to your house late tonight.

I am in another land, far from the Big Apple where I was born, facing an April 9th deadline for Narco News and I to respond to an expensive and frivilous lawsuit by the 389th richest man on earth and his Mexican bank: they want to silence Narco News, and they want to silence me.

The (now almost 600) subscribers to The Narco News Bulletin, and our 25,000 readers a day - all of you - know that we must make some serious decisions in the next 19 days and nights. That\'s because April 9th is our deadline to respond, or not, to the Banamex/Akin Gump lawsuit to shut down Narco News.

Today, we received an invitation from Miss Joan Moossy of the \"Let \'Em Talk\" program on 99.5 FM WBAI New York City to discuss the drug war in our Am

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