[btlsummary]Justice Department Tries to Restrict Lawyers' Access to Guantanamo Detainees

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Between The Lines For The Week Ending May 11, 2007

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Justice Department Tries to Restrict Lawyers' Access to Guantanamo Detainees

Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris

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Progressives Say Right-wing Policy Failures Should be Focus of '08 Campaign

Interview with Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, conducted by Scott Harris

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Report Reveals High Rate of Violence Committed Against Native American Women

Interview with Suzanne Koepplinger, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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This week's summary of under-reported news Compiled by Bob Nixon

Since UN and western nations backed a government with no broad constituency to take over Somalia, the country has seen the worst fighting since the fall of the last Somali government in 1991.

Phillip Perry, Vice President Dick Cheney's son-in-law has worked to block expanded security and regulation of the chemical industry, while serving on various posts in the Bush administration and as an attorney.

Top officials at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles threatened to suspend 13 student sweatshop activists engaged in a sit-in at the office of the university president Stephen Sample.

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