Week # Air Date, 10/22/2006

Segment #1 RIVERDALE, NEW JERSEY'S IMMIGRANT LAWS

What do Hazelton, Pennsylvania; Escondido, California; Garden City, New Jersey all have in common' They are all municipalities that have passed local laws targeting undocumented immigrants...specifically laws that punish landlords, employers and in some cases service providers to so-called 'illegal aliens.' Another thing they have in common is a problem enforcing these laws. But the effect remains the same. And in many of these communities immigrants have left'receiving the message that they are not welcomed here. Recently, radio producer Brad Linder traveled to one of these townships'to get a sense of how the locals are reacting to the national debate on immigration. (4:09)

Segment #2 VIOLENCE AGAINST GUATEMALAN ACTIVISTS

It's been almost ten years since a bloody civil war ended in the Central American nation of Guatemala. Despite the absence of war, there seems to be no end to the violence. Guatemala is a small country, yet it has a murder rate seven times greater than that of the United States. Increasingly these attacks seem to target social and human rights activists, who are there to monitor the Peace Accords signed in 1996. Independent producer Maria Martin has our story. (6:18)

Segment #3 CUBAN MUSICIANS WITH A MESSAGE

The communist island of Cuba was largely Catholic when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. For four decades, religion was banned by the state until the collapse of the Soviet Union. But rather than a simple return to Catholicism, Cubans are joining protestant sects at a growing rate. Contributor Lygia Navarro traveled to western Cuba recently, where she found a group of young Christian musicians bringing their unorthodox message of faith to the countryside. (6:27)