Democracy Now! Monday, October 29, 2007

Headlines for October 29, 2007

- ElBaradei: No Evidence That Iran is Building Nuclear Weapons
- Turkey Refuses to Rule Out Invasion of Northern Iraq
- Over 100,000 March Across U.S. Cities Against Iraq War
- American Bar Association Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium
- 25,000 Landless Peasants March in India
- Report: Gap Kids Using Child Labor in India
- Georgia Court Frees Genarlow Wilson
- U.S. Soldier Blames Kidnapped Journalist for Death of Italian Agent in Iraq


FEMA Admits It Held Fake Press Conference About California Wild Fires; FEMA Staffers Posed As Journalists

On Tuesday FEMA staged a fake press conference Tuesday with agency staffers posing as news reporters. One FEMA staffer who pretended to be a journalist has since been promoted to become head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.


The Forgotten Victims of the California Wild Fires: Undocumented Migrant Workers

Andrea Guerrero of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium says law enforcement deported evacuees and checked identifications of evacuees fleeing fires.


Costa Rican Banana Growers Form Fair Trade Cooperative

Yocser Carranza Godoy. president of the worker-controlled cooperative called Coopetrabasur and the cooperative's attorney Carlos Eugenio Vargas join us in New York to discuss the banana cooperative.


University of Michigan Press To Continue Publishing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism" After Initially Dropping Book Due to Right-Wing Criticism

Last week the University of Michigan Press voted unanimously to continue distributing books from the London-based independent publishing house Pluto Press. The controversy began earlier this summer when the university press initially decided to stop distributing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine."