Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 13, 2008

Berkeley City Council caves under pressure and withdraws strong language refering to US Marine Recruiters in Berkeley as "unwelcome intruders," we’ll continue our discussion with members of a growing resistance movement against the intruders; also, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter with a new speech on the mainstream corporate media’s pro-war spin on Iran and Iraq.


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 12, 2008

Hundreds of students from Berkeley High School join a growing movement of activists trying to run the Marine recruiters out of the city; also, National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn speaks out against Bush’s Guantanamo terrorist indictments; Maya Orozco with the Longest Walk as it arrives in Sacramento; Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West … Continued


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 11, 2008

A violent early morning attack in East Timor critically wounds President Ramos-Horta, while the Prime Minister escapes serious injury; also, Israeli leaders debate the assassination of Hamas leaders and a major offensive in Gaza; we’ll have a report from Alcatraz on the kick-off of the Longest Walk; and Laura Flanders talks about grassroots action in … Continued


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 4, 2008

Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Gaza and a suicide operation in Israel; a radical leader in the immigrants rights movement throws his support to Obama; also, former UN special envoy to Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdez, referred to by Haitians as the Butcher of Cite Soleil, visits UC Berkeley tomorrow; … Continued