[Imc-radio] FSRN headline

[Danielle Chynoweth]

This is a great candidate for an FSRN headline tomorrow.  If you want to 
make it a headline, contact Randi Zimmerman or the headlines coordinator 
at FSRN first to see if they want it.

Randi Zimmerman <RandiZ at WMNF.org>, 
fsrn-headlines at wbai.org

Just write up a minutes' worth and call it in.  It's easy and pays $20 (10 
you, 10 IMC)

- Danielle



Rep. Rush arrested in Sudan 

          July 15, 2004

       (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush was arrested Thursday during a protest 
rally at the Sudanese embassy accusing the government of the African 
nation of practicing genocide.

       Rush was led away in handcuffs by U.S. Secret Service officers to a 
police van after having blocked the embassy's entrance while shouting 
"Power to the people! Power to Sudan!" 

     Within a half hour, the Chicago Democrat was released from a 
Metropolitan Police Department station on $50 bond, said the congressman's 
spokeswoman, Tasha Harris. 

     Rush was booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and 
unlawful assembly, Secret Service spokeswoman Ann Roman said. 

     Earlier this week, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, was arrested for 
unlawful assembly in a similar protest. 

     Embassy spokesman Abdelbagi Kabeir said Thursday it was difficult to 
understand the motive behind the campaign against the Sudanese government 
that some members of Congress were waging. 

     "There is no genocide," he said. "There is improvement." 

     Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in the Darfur region 
of western Sudan in the past year and a-half, and an estimated one million 
people have been driven from their homes. 

     "People are dying because they can't get the humanitarian relief they 
need right now," Rush said, blaming the problem on the Sudanese government 
practicing genocide on the basis of ethnic and religious grounds. 

     Rush said the Bush administration should urge the United Nations to 
send a military peacekeeping force to Sudan. 

     "All we need is 2,000 troops and we can stop this," he said. 

     Rush, a six-term House member and one of a handful who are ministers, 
said Thursday's arrest was his first since several decades ago when he was 
a Black Panther activist and jailed repeatedly. 

     

           

 

           

     
  

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