DN!: Pivotal Blackwater Suit Moved to Panel with Company Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:20:04 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST May 23, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * "Trading Secrets" http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070522_trading_secrets/ note that this news site, Truthdig, allows readers to post comments. Consider posting your own. Consider writing your local newspaper and asking for them to carry the column, distributed by King Features. Many papers across the US have done so already. If you see the column in your paper, please mail us a copy of the full page, to Democracy Now! 100 Lafayette St New York, NY 10013 Thank you! = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Democracy Now Seeks Full-time Outreach Organizer We're looking to add an experienced organizer to our outreach team who is committed to making Democracy Now! a household name and bringing the program to new stations. visit http://democracynow.org/jobs.shtml for more information. TV News Producer/Editor http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Pivotal Family Lawsuit Against Blackwater USA Blocked from Court -- and Moved to Panel with Company Ties * A landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four employees of the security firm Blackwater USA killed in Iraq three years ago has been partially derailed. This week, a federal judge ordered the lawsuit to be decided behind closed doors in arbitration -- allowing Blackwater to avoid public examination of its practices in Iraq. One of the three arbitrators could be William Webster, who served as head of the FBI and CIA under President Reagan and has personal and business ties to several Blackwater lawyers. We speak with Bill Sizemore of the Virginian-Pilot, and Jeremy Scahill, author of ³Blackwater: The Rise of the Worldıs Most Powerful Mercenary Army.² Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1429251 * Jeremy Scahill Responds to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, Visits Blackwater Sites and Princeıs Hometown * Blackwater has remained relatively quiet in the face of its critics, but last week, the companyıs founder, Erik Prince, wrote an article to the Grand Rapids Press in response to a series of articles in the paper on Blackwater. The paper has referred to Jeremy Scahillıs book as putting Prince in the national media spotlight. We get Scahillıs response, and hear about his recent visit to Princeıs hometown and new Blackwater sites in California and Illinois. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1429259 * Leading GOP Candidate Romney Taps Blackwater's Cofer Black as Campaign Adviser * Leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has tapped Blackwater executive Cofer Black as a senior campaign advisor. Romney has called for a doubling of the US prison camp at Guantanamo. Black - who has been vice chairman at Blackwater for two years - was director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center during 9/11 and led the agency's hunt for Osama bin Laden. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1541229 * Author Paul Hawken on ³Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming² * Environmentalist Paul Hawken has come out with a new book, ³Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming.² Hawken is a best-selling author and one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate environmental reform. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1430208 * Headlines for May 23, 2007 * - Dems Drop Timetable Demand in War Funding Bill - Report: Pentagon Plans Near Doubling Iraq Troop Size - Thousands Flee Lebanon Refugee Camp as Ceasefire Holds - Several Wounded in Ongoing Israeli Strikes on Gaza - Senate Rejects First Challenge to Immigration Bill - Senators Set Deadline for Wiretap Disclosure - Report: Admin Approves Iran Destabilization Program - U.S. Refuses to Attend Meeting on Cluster Ban Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1429242 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Wednesday, May 23, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/23/1852216 To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! Thursday, May 24, 2007: TBA = = = = = = = = = DN! AT 10! 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