[Peace] Tonight 8-10 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM

[Carl Estabrook]

	--Congressional Forum on Ending the War in Iraq
	--Noam Chomsky: "Biolinguistic Explorations:
	Design, Development, Evolution"

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	Show: Digital Citizen
	Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
	Time: 8-10 PM
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Tonight on Digital Citizen we broadcast a forum held last week in
Washington, a forum hardly covered by "main-stream media." Several members
of the House of Representatives convened a discussion on "Ending the War
in Iraq" on Saturday 27 April.  Requests from members of Congress for
official hearings on plans to bring U.S. troops out of Iraq have been
ignored by the Congressional leadership, so an unofficial hearing was
organized Representatives Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters of
California and Maurice Hinchey of New York.  Representatives Conyers,
Allen, McGovern, Olver, Kucinich and DeFazio also participated. The
witnesses included Ms. Faiza al-Araji, who spoke about her family's
experiences in Iraq before and during the war and subsequent occupation;
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, who recently returned from a three-month stay in Basrah
and Baghdad; Charlie Anderson, a Navy Hospital Corpsman with the Marine
Corps' Second Tank Battalion during the invasion of Iraq and the Southeast
Regional Coordinator of Iraq Veterans Against the War; and Dr. Paul
Pillar, Former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South
Asia from 2000-2005.

In the second hour tonight, we'll hear a talk by Noam Chomsky, the leading
critic of U.S. government policy, but tonight he'll be talking about his
scientific work.  Chomsky did for the field of linguistics roughly what
Einstein did for physics -- he altered it completely.  And, unlike some
other academic specialists, he is able to explain his work in an
accessible fashion.  Tonight he will discuss language and human biology.

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DR. NO, Jeff Nicholson-Owens, founder and host of Digital Citizen, is away
on hiatus, so tonight's show will be presented by your almost permanent
guest host (note: a rare quadruple oxymoron), Carl Estabrook. As the
Doctor says, "Thank you so much for listening to the show.  Your attention
makes doing the show worthwhile."

Remember, if possible, that on this day thirty-five years ago (3 May 1971)
some 7,000 people were arrested in an attempt to shut down the Pentagon.
They were the last of perhaps 14,000 people arrested during the May Day
Vietnam War protests -- the largest mass arrest in U. S. history (to
date).  Many of those arrested much later won financial compensation from
the Federal government when the massive police sweeps were declared
unconstitutional.

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