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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
We spend the entire hour with author and environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, who talks about the collapse of industrial capitalism and peak oil economy, and what it will take for people to resist the destructive urges of civilization and replace it with a culture of resistance.
We broadcast live from the Hayward day laborer center in Hayward, California. We’ll be joined by the executive director of this vital peoples’ center for immigrant labor rights, Gabriel Hernandez; we’ll hear how the center is making a difference in the lives of day laborers and in the community where it’s based; we’ll also … Continued
On the seventh anniversary of the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we’ll speak to David Ray Griffin, the leading expert and researcher on the attacks and the subsequent coverup; Bonnie Faulkner of Guns and Butter co-hosts this important special; and we’ll report on the ongoing 9-11 film festival extravaganza at … Continued
Sounds from the streets of St. Paul with Indigenous leaders and youth speaking out against the two-party system during the Republican National Convention; also, JR of the Block Report speaks with Kiilu Nyasha, former Black Panther and KPFA programmer, about the recent police violence inside the station; we’ll open up the phone lines and take … Continued
A thousand dead in Haiti and the death toll still rises as a result of three hurricanes; we’ll also speak with Malik Rahim of Common Ground about the situation in New Orleans at the height of hurricane season; we’ll have a post-mortem on the final slash and burn of the Memorial Oak grove in Berkeley, … Continued
A special Community Business report with Catherine Austin Fitts on the implications of the government takeover of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; We go live to the Berkeley Memorial Oak Grove where tree-sitters are standing off against the UC Cops; also, a city hall press conference in St. Paul last Friday highlighted the impact of … Continued
Live from downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, we’ll report on a standoff at Coldwater Springs between the American Indian Movement and local, state and Federal police and Homeland Security; We’ll speak with journalist Mordechai Spector, publisher of the American Jewish World, about his son’s arrest on trumped-up domestic terrorism charges; we’ll have a wrap-up on police … Continued
At the Republican National Convention, politicians and power brokers will descend on security-ringed conference centers to jockey for control of their party, and then campaign for control of this country. Pacifica Radio and KPFA will bring you UNconventional coverage —asking politicians questions they don’t get from other media, broadcasting voices from the protests outside, and, … Continued
Victims of Hurricane Katrina brace for Hurricane Gustav, fearing the worst again, we feature a special report from Malik Rahim of Common Ground, from New Orleans; also, former Angola prisoner Robert King talks about the treatment of prisoners during major storms; In honor of the Chicano moratorium, we remember the life and times of Ruben … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, JR and the Block Report follow up on the KPFA arrest and police beating of a graduate of the apprenticeship program; also, Peter Phillips reports on a new censorship series at Sonoma State University and a Truth Emergency Survey; we have an update on farmworker deaths in California; a special report from … Continued
