Flashpoints – May 8, 2024
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
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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.
Today on the Show: Israel’s answer to the cease fire proposal is to declare war on Rafah. We’ll feature a front line report with Zeiad Abbas from the Middle East Alliance: And We’ll have live reports from Student Encampments and actions at U.C. Berkeley, Sonoma State University, and George Washington University
On Today’s Show: US Secretary of State in San Francisco, greeted by protesters with the mock blood of Palestinians. The East Bay City of Richmond, California takes a bold step to divest from companies that do business with the Israel apartheid State. And Nora Barrows Friedman talks to antigenocide students from coast to coast
Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat reporting on the genocidal policies that the US continues to weaponize and defend. We’ll be joined again by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of the Middle East Children Alliance for frontline reports on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also students recovering from police violence at UCLA. … Continued
Today on the show: We’ll speak to the president of the National Lawyers Guild, and to Chip Gibbons of Defending Rights & Dissent about the resurgence of police power in the face of the new national student movement against genocide in Palestine. Also we’ll have a report from UCLA in the aftermath of an attack … Continued
Today on the show: We feature some recent report backs from Flashpoints contributing reporter, Daniel Rodriguez, on the floatilla to Gaza and the recent student protests against the genocide in Palestine.
Today on the Show: The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America, despite a violent police crack down on several campuses; we’ll feature live reports from New York City and Los Angles. Also Ziad Abbas is back for a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the west bank: … Continued
Today on the show: Columbia students defy a 2pm deadline to get lost or risk their academic future as students at the elite east coast University. Also Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on the White House/white wash correspondents’ dinner-protest. Medea and her partner, roughed up and tossed out of the Correspondents dinner for holding up a … Continued
Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas is back for an update on the expanding attacks in the west bank and the expanding genocide in Gaza. Also an extended report back from the Gaza Boat to break the Israeli Embargo and and call attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And students and their teachers in … Continued
Today on the Show: Flashpoints contributor, Maud Jean Michel, in The Bay Area to join Haitian forces with anti-genocide activists. Also, the big money driving the repression on private Ivy League campuses, like Colombia and NYU. Food Not Bombs questions the insanity of Biden’s war is peace budget. And from the Young Lords to the … Continued