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For years, squatters have been living in abandoned buildings in New York's East Village and Lower East Side. In spite of the risk that one day they could be forced out, squatters have often improved the buildings dramatically, investing time and money in an effort to create a home. Recently however, the New York City police department launched a large raid on several squats, forcing the residents out. While the city argues these buildings had been illegally co-opted, the squatters argue the law protects their rights as homesteaders. Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that now the matter has gone to court.

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Once dedicated to commemorating Kit Carson, the Fort Garland Museum's new exhibit acknowledges the brutal effects that westward expansion and settler-colonialism had on Indigenous and Native Americans.

WE HEAR, ONCE AGAIN, TAPES MADE BY SCOTT SIMON'S FATHER WHEN SCOTT WAS JUST A CHILD. (MICHAEL SMITH'S SONG "I BROUGHT MY FATHER WITH ME" IS ON HIS NEW CD "TIME" ON FLYING FISH RECORDS - 1-800-FYI-FISH/FF70613. SING OUT! MAGAZINE, P.O. BOX 5253, BETHLEHEM, PA. 18015, 1-800-4-WESING)

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Legends of Western Swing (Hillbilly Fever Vol. 1)" (Rhino ).

ALL STATIONS FROM: MARTA HAYWOOD RE: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY/FIRST RUNDOWN DATE: JUNE 24, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: SHAY STEVENS, LAURA KNOY

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR TAD SZULC (SHULTZ), FORMER CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "POPE JOHN PAUL II - THE BIOGRAPHY," PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER.

NPR's David Welna spends an evening on patrol with rookie police officers in Haiti. They have few uniforms, limited patrol cars, and often have to work in the dark because their generators are out of fuel, but they are optimistic about their ability to police Haiti after interantional troops go home.

Jennifer Ludden from member station WBUR in Boston reports that increasingly new Asian immigrants faced with the prospect of daycare are sending their children back home to China where their grandparents take care of them.