Archive - Aug 8, 2008

• American Indian Trust Ruling
• Hamdan Sentenced to Five-and-a-Half Years
• 8-8-88: Burma's Pro-Democratic Uprising and the Atrocities That Followed
• Remembering 8-8-88 in Berkeley
• Olympic Games Kick Off In Beijing
• Rewind with Pacifica Radio Archives: The Black Power Fist at the 1968 Olympic Games

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• Escalating Conflict in South Ossetia Fuels Fears of Regional War
• Al Sadr Announces Offer to Dissolve Militia if US Military Promises Withdrawal from Iraq
• Indigenous Leader Murdered In Guatemala Ahead of International Day of Indigenous People
• Detriot Mayor Posts Bond, Receives New Charges
• Nader Unveils Corporate Crime Fighting Proposal

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A decision was handed down on a law suit filed 12 years ago by Native Americans for unpaid money owed by the US government. The US District Judge said the US must release 455 million dollars of a trust – that's far less than the 47 billion the Native Americans requested. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

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A military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, of one count of providing material support for terrorism – and sentenced to a five-and-a-half year sentence. Hamdan was acquitted of the more serious conspiracy charge. This marks the first military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, which opened in 2002. The verdict is seen as a major blow to the Bush Administration, which argued for a stiffer sentence of 30 years to life. Ben Wizner works with the American Civil Liberties Union – he's been at GITMO and watched the entire public proceeding.

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Nearly one hundred activists gathered at Berkeley City Hall this morning to observe the 8-8-88 Anniversary of the uprising in Burma and to raise the Burmese flag. Many political exiles in the United States continue to struggle against the military junta in Burma. Africa Jones reports.

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