3/18/11: Dolores and Janette discuss the week's events and news

Democracy Now! 2011-03-18 Friday

• Headlines for March 18, 2011
• "Underestimating the Seriousness of the Problem": Experts Urge Japan to Raise Nuclear Alert and Evacuate Wider Area
• "Why are We Playing Russian Roulette with the American People?": Longtime Nuclear Critic Ralph Nader Advocates Phasing Out Nuclear Power Industry
• Gaddafi Declares Cease-fire After U.N. Security Council Backs No-Fly Zone in Libya
• Defying U.S., Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returns Home

Democracy Now! 2011-03-17 Thursday

• Headlines for March 17, 2011
• “Serious Danger of a Full Core Meltdown”: Update on Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe
• Report from Sendai: Fears of Radioactivity Are Hampering Relief Efforts
• Hiroshima Organizes Scientific Teams and Medical Treatment Centers to Receive Victims of Radiation Poisoning
• Prominent Japanese Environmentalist Keibo Oiwa Urges Global Movement to End Nuclear Power and Confront the “Crazy System Based on Greed, Anger and Ignorance”

3/15/11 - Part 1 of the Belmont School Committee meeting.

3/15/11 - Part 2 of the Belmont School Committee meeting.

Democracy Now! 2011-03-16 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 16, 2011
• Amy Goodman Reports from South Africa on Aristide’s Planned Return Trip to Haiti After Seven Years in Exile
• “No Happy Ending”: Nuclear Experts Say Japan’s Disaster is Intensifying
• South Africans Question the Push to “Go Down the Nuclear Road” to Meet Rising Energy Demand

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3/14/11 - Coverage of the Board of Selectmen meeting in Belmont, MA.

Democracy Now! 2011-03-15 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 15, 2011
• “This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids”: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan’s Growing Nuclear Crisis
• Vermont Gov. Fights to Close Vermont Yankee, One of 23 U.S. Nuclear Power Facilities Nearly Identical to Failed Japanese Plant
• "Get the Children Away from the Reactors": Japan Urged to Expand Evacuation Area Around Nuclear Plants as Leaking Radiation Spreads

Democracy Now! 2011-03-14 Monday

• Headlines for March 14, 2011
• Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear Age
• Worker Uprising: Up to 185,000 Protest In Madison As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Union-Busting Bill

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