Archive - Sep 12, 2008

• Hurricane Ike Looms Near Texas
• Voices Before Hurricane Ike
• FBI's New Rules on Spying
• Election Supervisors Unclear on Voting Rights Laws for Felons
• Pakistan Update
• "Items off the Table"  Commentary By Mumia Abu-Jamal

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• Venezuela Expels US Ambassador, Recalls Diplomat from Washington
• 14 Bolivian Campesinos Massacred in Opposition-Dominated Province
• Zimbabwean Factions Agree to Power-Sharing Deal
• Ohio Secretary of State Calls for Measures to Avoid Repeat of 2004 Election Irregularities
• Congressional Representatives Want More Aid for Haiti After Ike

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The Coast Guard has begin the rescue of a few dozen people from the Texas coast this morning – and warns that nearly 40,000 people may need to be rescued after Hurricane Ike makes landfall today. Although residents in south Texas have been encouraged to evacuate immediately, many are planning on riding the storm out despite the warnings. FSRN speaks with Jeff Masters, Director of Meteorology at The Weather Underground, and Jim Blackburn, environmental lawyer and professor of civil engineering at Rice University.

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No water, no bread, no gas at the pump, and no cash at the ATM. That's what residents in Houston who haven't heeded the call to evacuate are left to contend with just hours before Hurricane Ike makes landfall. Although batteries and other essential supplies are starting to run low, our correspondent Rachel Clark says folks in the area are generally calm, hunkering down for the massive storm – she caught up with Kato Spates, Olivia Yang and Robin Lewis at a Houston supermarket.

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New guidelines for the FBI which will soon be released by the Justice Department will make it easier for agents to conduct physical surveillance and interview friends of people they're investigating without suspicion of a crime or threat to national security. The move has civil liberty advocates crying a foul. FSRN's Karen Miller has more.

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The New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a campaign to let people with criminal records know they can vote. Survey after survey indicated that a third of New Yorkers believe former felons couldn't vote. Perhaps more troubling, as FSRN's Rebecca Myles finds, election supervisors are also unclear on voting rights laws.

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