Free Speech Radio News Daily Digest: Headlines for Tuesday, 06 August, 2013 @ 5pm (CDT)

• Headlines for Tuesday, August 6, 2013
• Local communities respond to foreclosure crisis as Obama outlines housing plan
• Dream 9 activists in Arizona move forward with asylum applications
• Women advocates use social media to confront online threats and sexism
• In Japan, thousands commemorate Hiroshima, Nagasaki attacks with vow to end nuclear weapons

Headlines for Tuesday, August 6, 2013 Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:59 PM PDT U.S. and UK evacuate staff from Yemen after drone attacks kill four Chicago hunger strikers demand undocumented patients have access to organ transplants Nez Perce leaders arrested while blockading tar sands megaload travel on native lands UN Human Rights office: Bahrain anti-terrorism laws may violate  human rights standards Detroit voters cast ballots in primary  for Mayor and City Council read more This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Local communities respond to foreclosure crisis as Obama outlines housing plan Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:58 PM PDT In a speech in Phoenix, Arizona today, President Obama outlined a plan to help struggling homeowners and renters across the country. The plan includes measures he has called for before, including programs to help underwater mortgage holders refinance and funding to renovate abandoned homes. He also called for “winding down” the controversial mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But local governments and activists in communities devastated by the foreclosure crisis aren’t waiting for the federal government to act. In Washington, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Dream 9 activists in Arizona move forward with asylum applications Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:57 PM PDT Seven of the nine undocumented activists being held in an Arizona detention center are moving forward with their asylum applications, according to their legal team. The activists, known as the Dream 9, crossed the border from Mexico about two weeks ago to draw attention to stalled immigration reform and what they call a broken deportation system that breaks apart families. read more This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Women advocates use social media to confront online threats and sexism Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:56 PM PDT On- and offline, women across the globe regularly contend with sexism, misogyny and threats of violence. Bomb threats made via Twitter to a number of female journalists and historian Mary Beard prompted a protest over the weekend. Some boycotted the social media site, others used the hashtag #twittersilence, to pressure Twitter executives to deal with the issue. Another high profile target was this year’s women’s Wimbledon champion, Marion Bartoli. read more This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

In Japan, thousands commemorate Hiroshima, Nagasaki attacks with vow to end nuclear weapons Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:55 PM PDT Today, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke before a crowd at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, vowing to work toward a world without nuclear weapons. Sixty-eight years ago today, US warplanes began a nuclear attack on Japan, dropping an atomic weapon on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, the US dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands and causing decades of lasting damage.  UN Radio’s Gerry Adams reports. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now