DN!: PBS Excluding Latino Voices: WWII Documentary///Who Killed The Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:57:50 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST March 13, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Immediate Opening: Part-Time TV Director http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml TV News Producer/Editor http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: *PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from WWII Documentary* A coalition of Latino organizations have been criticizing PBS over a forthcoming documentary by Ken Burns on World War II because it ignores the role played by Latino soldiers in the war. The 14-hour film, ³The War,² includes no interviews with any Latino veterans even though over 500,000 Latinos served in the war. The documentary also includes no interviews with any Native American veterans. We speak with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas professor who has led the protests against PBS. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/1421225 *Step It Up: Thousands Gather this Weekend for Largest Ever-Rally Against Global Warming* The group Step it Up is spearheading the National Day of Climate of Action on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering across the country in the largest-ever demonstration against global warming. Over thirteen hundred rallies, demonstrations and actions are being held in all fifty states to call on Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. We speak with Step it Up organizer Bill McKibben. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/1421235 *Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1* General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation's largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary ³Who Killed the Electric Car?² Weıre joined by the filmıs director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric car. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/1421243 * Headlines for March 13, 2007 * - Lawmaker: Iraq Crackdown ³Dead² Following Parliament Bombing - CBS Radio Cancels Don Imus over Racial Slurs - Oxfam: Boycott on Palestinians Leading to ³Devastating² Crisis - Zimbabwe Opposition Leader: 600 Activists Detained, Tortured - Turkish Military Chief Calls for Attack on Iraqi Kurds - Australian PM: Ban Entry for HIV-Positive Immigrants, Refugees - World Bank Staffers Call on Wolfowitz to Resign - Prosecutors: Judge Violated Al-Arianıs Plea Deal Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/1421220 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Monday, March 13, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/13/208224 To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! 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