Tune in tonight to learn about the terrifying plight of Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist state of Burma or Myanmar. Preeti Shekar talks to journalist and Burma expert, Sufyan bin Uzayr, and Bay-Area-based Burmese immigrant activist and feminist, Nwe Oo, about how this state-sanctioned massacre is unfolding even as Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San … Continued
With Anthony Wright, Executive Director of Health Access CA, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition. And Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. A graduate of Yale Law School, where he taught from 1998 to 2008, and the author of Speak Now: Marriage Equality … Continued
The Death Penalty is Revenge, Not Healing: Father of OKC Victim on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Sentencing; Does U.S. Ignore Right-Wing Terror? More Killed by White Extremists Than Jihadists Since 9/11; Did Chris Christie Send Entrapped Innocents to Jail? Re-examining the Case of the Fort Dix 5; Undocumented Trans Activist Jennicet Gutiérrez Challenges Obama on Deportations at … Continued
Today on Flashpoints:We’ll have a live report from San Francisco on a protest against the forced repatriation of Haitians from the Dominican Republic. Also, the concluding segment of our 15 part special, “The Battle for Public Education in the 21st Century”. And we’ll introduce you to the producer of the education series, Ken Yale
Celebration Day at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? A Debate on Who Benefits from the TPP; “I Am Not Nonviolent”: New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist’s Uncompromising Voice.
Welfare supports were a fundamental feature of the Soviet Union. But then the USSR collapsed, leaving millions of Russians without either good-paying jobs or state assistance. Marianna Pavlovskaya reveals how Russian families resorted to household and other informal economic practices to cope, adapt, and survive in an era of relentless privatization and neoliberalization. For more details … Continued
Nikki Jones is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis … Continued
6/23/15 Dangerous Passivity Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the importance of individual assertive control over health crises. Included is the importance of the immune system and how it gets challenged.
Have you talked with your family or neighbors about how you’ll help each other when the next earthquake or fire hits? It’s so easy to put off doing what we need to do to prepare, but there are little steps we can all take that will reinforce our resilience and keep us healthy and safe. … Continued
