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Thursday, April 8th, 2010: Would you do it?

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Nk'Mip Vineyard, Osoyoos.
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Headlines

Labor Neighbor Headlines
We begin this week’s Northwest news summary with Labor Neighbor Radio, a roundup of Pacific Northwest news for working families.
Reporter: John Sandifer
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Features

Part 1 of 2: Cruel Choices: custody relinquishment and our mental health care system
Imagine having a child with a serious health problem. Everywhere you go for help, you are either turned away or the services offered are inadequate. Your child gets worse and worse. Then you’re told the state will care for your child, but only if you relinquish custody which means terminating your parental rights.

Would you do it?

This is the painful scenario facing many parents who have children with severe mental health issues. And in Washington, ten families are fighting back. Heidi Lang brings us the first installment of her 2-part series about the issue of custody relinquishment in the state’s mental healthcare system.
Tune in next week for part 2 of Heidi Lang’s series titled “Cruel Choices” about Washington State’s practice of custody relinquishment regarding mental healthcare. In this final installment, she looks into one possible solution to the problem. Known as wrap-around services, they are currently being piloted throughout the state.
Reporter: Heidi Lang
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Homeless advocacy newspaper blocked from finding a home in Seattle’s Pioneer Square area
Seattle’s Real Change newspaper was founded to provide a voice for low-income people and to promote action to end homelessness and poverty. The paper, which has nearly doubled its circulation since it went to weekly publication in 2005, has called Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood home for fifteen years now. Recently Real Change made a decision to move into larger quarters in the Pioneer Square Historic District. But a neighborhood business group is trying to keep the newspaper out of its backyard, and preservationists are voicing concerns about building modifications involved in the move. One World Report’s David Griffith spoke with Real Change News’ Executive Director, Tim Harris, about finding a home for Real Change.

Earlier this afternoon One World Report received a copy of a letter from Mayor McGinn’s office. The letter was originally sent to the Pioneer Square Community Association. It outlines the mayor’s position on the Real Change move to Pioneer Square. McGinn says he is requesting additional foot patrols from the Seattle Police Department for Pioneer Square. He said because Real Change does not receive funding from the city, they cannot tell the newspaper where to lease space.

Related links: To read Real Change News’ Executive Director Tim Harris’ Editorial, go to RealChangeNews.org.
Tim Harris’ letter to the Pioneer Square Community Association (PSCA)
Mayor Mike McGinn’s letter to the PSCA.
Reporter: David Griffith
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Canadian Native Group finds an innovative way to support themselves without resorting to gaming
2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the first Native-American casino in the United States. In the last two years the fortunes of many American Indian casinos have along with the economy, gone south. Some Washington State tribes have seen casino revenues drop by up to 30-percent. The Nooksak and Snoqualmie are struggling with casino debt and the Skokomish have shut-down their gaming operations in the face of mounting losses.

In Canada - where native gaming exists in only four provinces - one industrious tribe has built a successful and innovative, non-casino enterprise: Nk’Mip Cellars is North America’s first native-owned winery, and it’s quickly establishing a reputation that’s putting the Osoyoos Indian brand on the world’s wine map.

More information about Nk’Mip Cellars can be found on their website.
Reporter: Toby Nelson
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Relief organizations supplying tarps to address severe shelter needs in Haiti.
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Interview with Ansel Herz, independent journalist in Haiti
Four months after an earthquake devastated Haiti much of the world’s attention has turned away from the tiny Caribbean island. Independent journalist Ansel Herz is in Seattle this week. He moved to Haiti in September 2009. When the earthquake struck he was one of only a handful of foreign journalists able to report what was happening on the ground. One World Report Executive Producer Joaquin Uy spoke with Herz at the KBCS Jonathan Henderson Studio.

Check out Ansel Herz’s website for more news about Haiti.
Interviewer: Joaquin Uy
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Guarding Iraq's cultural heritage
Cultural Heritage is one of the many unseen victims in war. Historically, wartime chaos has been synonymous with pillaging, looting, and the destruction of ancient artifacts. This fact has not changed during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Kyle Goeckner-Wald and Aaron Moser of War News Radio bring us this story on a new partnership between military and archaeological experts that works to protect artifacts in war zones.
War News Radio: Kyle Goeckner-Wald and Aaron Moser
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Ted Nace’s new book Climate Hope.
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Green A.C.R.E Radio: Coal and its harm to the environment and workers
Mining disasters aren’t the only cause of renewed pressure on coal companies. Around the country climate change activists are successfully halting plans to build new coal plants. Activists are calling for cleaner fuels and alternative energy sources as a means to get away from fossil fuels like coal. Green Acre Radio’s Martha Baskin talks with author Ted Nace about his new book Climate Hope and his reasons for optimism.
Reporter: Martha Baskin
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Concern over safety violations at West Virginia mine as rescue continues
Rescuers trying to reach four missing miners after an explosion at a West Virginia coal mine have retreated because noxious gas levels are still too high. Monday’s explosion killed 25 people at the Big Branch Mine. The coal mine, owned by Massey Energy, has multiple federal violations. Two safety violations were made against the mine on the same day the deadly explosion occurred. Workers at Big Branch Mine are not unionized. Critics say miners without union representation could face greater levels of danger in their workplace conditions.
Free Speech Radio News Reporter: Karen Miller
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Guest Commentary from Jared Ball: “Newton’s” Laws
Our usual One World Report commentator Sable Verity is off this week. Instead we present writer and blogger Jared Ball, a columnist for Black Agenda Report. He outlines Newton’s Laws that’s Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton.
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Credits
One World Report Executive Producer Joaquin Uy edited today’s show. The news summary editor is Gabriel L. Freeman. Special thanks to reporters Martha Baskin, David Griffith, Heidi Lang, and Toby Nelson. Tonight’s audio editor is Havens Tipps. Yessica Andiputri works on our website.

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