[IMC-DC] BTL Summary 5-4-07: Supreme Court Abortion Decision; Anti-War Movement on Iraq Legislation; Gun Laws After Virginia Tech

[Scott Harris]

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Between The Lines For The Week Ending May 4, 2007

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Supreme Court Decision on Abortion an Assault on Women's Health

Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, 
conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

http://www.btlonline.org/keenan050407.ram 

Script summary/Related links: 
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Peace Groups Pressure Congress to End Iraq Occupation as Bush Vetoes 
War Spending Bill

Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the group Code Pink, 
conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

http://www.btlonline.org/benjamin050407.ram 

Script summary/Related links: 
http://www.btlonline.org/btl050407.html#2hed

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Virginia Tech Murders Could Rouse Public Support for New Gun Laws

Interview with John Lowy, senior attorney with the Brady Campaign to 
Prevent Gun Violence, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

http://www.btlonline.org/lowy050407.ram

Script summary/Related links: 
http://www.btlonline.org/btl050407.html#3hed

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This week's summary of under-reported news

Compiled by Bob Nixon

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, chairman of a key appropriations 
committee, has frozen $55 million in aid to Colombia while the U.S. Congress 
investigates President Alvaro Uribe's Army Chief Mario Montoya's 
connections to paramilitias and drug dealers. 

Timothy Griffin has been appointed U.S. attorney for the eastern 
district of Arkansas. Griffin ran 2004 operations in Florida to wrongly purge 
minority voters from the state's voter registration list.

Maryland is the first state in the nation to pass a living wage law. 

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