Today on Flashpoints: Farmworkers and their supporters protest the spraying of dangerous pesticides near elementary schools in Salinas and the surrounding areas. We’ll hear from a member of A pesticide reform coalition that will be making strong recommendations to the department of pesticides in Salinas tomorrow, in terms of greatly limiting the dangerous and lethal … Continued


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Remembering Paul Robeson. Electronic Intifada podcast and more…

Today on a Special Edition of Flashpoints: We remember exalted singer, actor, political activist, Paul Robeson, blacklisted in the nineteen fifties, after the Peekskill anti-communist riots in upstate New York. Also, Noam Chomsky on the emerging framework of world power. And we feature our regular weekly broadcast of Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman