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With a bit of luck, we'll be opening April Fools Day!

Images and sound from March 20th Mobilization in San Francisco, with an interview with an FMLN organizer from El Salvador, Rosa.

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Local parents are worried about the safety of their children.

Since the School Board’s decisions to close Branciforte Elementary and to cut the transportation budget, families are wondering how their children will get safely to schools 2-3 miles from their homes.

Many of the Branciforte students live in the neighborhoods surrounding Grant Street Park. In all three scenarios presented to the School Board these students are now in the Delaveaga attendance area. There is currently no safe route for these children to walk or bike to their new school. Many families are unable to drive their children to school, and without the transportation funds formerly available, there is no money for buses.

Today on RTB we remember the life of Rachel Corrie, killed one year ago by a bulldozer in Rafah. Joining me is Simona Sharoni, professor of peace studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia. We begin with a clip of Cindie Corrie, Rachel Corrie's mother, who I spoke with on July 3 2003.

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On April 5, 2003, Brian Avery Brian was working in the Occupied Territories as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. He was shot in the face by the Israeli Military while wearing a bright red jacket. When he raised himself from the ground, witnesses saw that his left cheek had almost been totally shot off. Brian Avery spoke at the Resource Center for Nonviolence on Sunday, March 15.

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