Green Party Gearing for Green Convention

Next week is the Green Party's National Convention. In Chicago, Illinois, Greens will choose their Presidential Candidate. After primaries in 28 states, the nominee is likely to be former US Representative of Georgia Cynthia McKinney.  But beyond choosing a Presidential nominee, the Green Party will be compiling their national platform.  We spoke with Convention Coordinator Ruth Weil.

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The Greens say they have grown in stature over the years. As Phil Huckelberry, Co-Chair of the Green Party says, they will be celebrating and plotting how to make additional gains in the future. 

• Congress Delays Medicare Payment Cuts to Doctors
• Builders Look for Ways to "Green" Homes and Offices
• EPA Library Focusing on New Chemicals Will Not Reopen
• The First New Palestinian Town in More Than 40 Years Has Been Given the Go-Ahead
• The First Los Angeles Social Forum Focuses on Immigration

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• Pentagon Brings Charges in the USS Cole Attack
• DC Circuit Court Rejects Government Argument Against Chinese "Enemy Combatant"
• Pastors for Peace Caravan Prepares to Cross into Mexico to Deliver Aid to Cuba
• US and Coalition Fatalities Higher in Afghanistan than in Iraq
• Tibetan Exiles in Nepal Arrested Near Chinese Border
• Nelson Mandela Finally Removed From US Terror Watch List

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The Bush administration has agreed to delay Medicare payment cuts for doctors. To the dismay of physicians, patients, and insurance companies, the cuts were supposed to go into effect today. As FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports, this is the not the first time the President and Congress have had to step in and delay payments to the program.

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In 2006, the Bush Administration began systematically closing the libraries of the Environmental Protection Agency. These libraries, scattered throughout the United States, held the official records of the Agency, contained one of the most comprehensive collections on new pesticides and chemicals in the world and are used by lawyers, scientists and the general public. By 2007, the newly elected Democratic Congress put a stop to the closures, and ordered that the libraries be restored. But as of now, it appears the agency's new chemical library will not be reopened. Jes Burns spoke to Jeff Ruch, the Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, to find out the current status of the library system.

A new Palestinian town has just been given the go ahead in the West Bank – it will be the first one to be built there since Israel moved in more than forty years ago. And the first planned community there that is not a Jewish settlement. A developer has just secured the funding, although it has not yet completed the plans or received final approvals. Already thousands of customers have registered, emphasizing the Palestinian need for affordable housing. Irris Makler spoke to the developer Bashar al Masri in Ramallah who says this is an idea that's time has come.

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