Archive - May 17, 2005

Headlines (5:12)
More than 12-thousand landless farmers are to hold a mass protest in Brazil’s capital against what they are calling the government’s slow rate of reform. Natalia Viana reports from Sao Paulo.

Low voter turn out may still generate an historic election in the Los Angeles mayor’s race.  Soul Rebel Radio's Oriel Maria Siu reports from KPFK.

The Nicaraguan president has signed an agreement with the former banana workers adversely affected by a pesticide that was outlawed in the 1960’s in the US. Nan McCurdy has more from Managua, Nicaragua.