DN!: FEMA's Fake Press Conference//Undocumented Immigrants in Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:32:57 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST October 29, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Full-Time Broadcast Engineer http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * FEMA Admits It Held Fake Press Conference about California Wildfires; FEMA Staffers Posed as Journalists * On Tuesday, FEMA staged a fake press conference with agency staffers posing as news reporters. One FEMA staffer who pretended to be a journalist has since been promoted to become head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/140259 * The Forgotten Victims of the California Wildfires: Undocumented Migrant Workers * Andrea Guerrero of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium says law enforcement deported evacuees and checked identifications of evacuees fleeing fires. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/141205 * Costa Rican Banana Growers Form Fair Trade Cooperative * Yocser Carranza Godoy, president of the worker-controlled cooperative called Coopetrabasur and the cooperative's attorney Carlos Eugenio Vargas join us in New York to discuss the banana cooperative. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/141205 * University of Michigan Press to Continue Publishing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism" After Initially Dropping Book Due to Rightwing Criticism * Last week the University of Michigan Press voted unanimously to continue distributing books from the London-based independent publishing house Pluto Press. The controversy began earlier this summer when the university press initially decided to stop distributing Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine." Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/141215 * Headlines for October 29, 2007 * - ElBaradei: No Evidence That Iran is Building Nuclear Weapons - Turkey Refuses to Rule Out Invasion of Northern Iraq - Over 100,000 March Across U.S. Cities Against Iraq War - American Bar Association Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium - 25,000 Landless Peasants March in India - Report: Gap Kids Using Child Labor in India - Georgia Court Frees Genarlow Wilson - U.S. Soldier Blames Kidnapped Journalist for Death of Italian Agent in Iraq Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/140249 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Monday, October 29, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/ To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! Tuesday, October 30, 2007: * Mario Lozano, the U.S. soldier involved in the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq said he is not to blame for the agent's death. Last week an Italian court dismissed the absentia trial of Mario Lozano for the killing of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari. Lozano allegedly shot Calipari as he escorted the then-newly freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to the airport. Sgrena will join us live from Rome. = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * "Hold Politicians' Feet to the Fire" http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4788/ 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! = = = = = = = = = Now in Paperback! 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