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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.
Twenty-two thousand dead, forty thousand missing, and a million on the run in Burma, we’ll have an update on the wake of the cyclone that devastated the country over the weekend; also, ICE raids all over the Bay Area, we’ll talk with Flashpoints special co-host Evelyn Sanchez about the latest roundups and terror; and we’ll … Continued
Public Citizen speaks out against oil price gouging and the Bush administration’s support for Big Oil; also, award-winning author and lecturer Michael Parenti dissects the plan to aerial spray the people of northern California with pesticides to benefit Big Ag; and Fred Hampton Jr. speaks about political prisoner Aaron Patterson and why the feds transferred … Continued
Labor activists and union organizers reflect on yesterday’s international May Day actions and protests, as workers continue their struggles for justice, from the post office to the biotech industry; also, JR and the Block Report feature an interview with the parents of a 15 year old Oakland boy shot in the back by cops; and … Continued
Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, We broadcast live from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, where workers and immigrants rights activists, students, teachers, and antiwar coalitions have converged on this May Day!
We air the hour-long pilot program, If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott, author, anti-nuclear physician and activist; she explores environmental crises, the state of climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation, and offers important solutions to effect change on behalf of the planet.
We get an on the ground report from Gaza City, where Israeli attacks continue despite Hamas’ offer of a ceasefire; plus activists lose a lawsuit against the EPA for post 9/11 health disasters; JR and the Block Report focus in on the political crisis in Zimbabwe; and the Knight Report.
Israeli attacks kill seven Palestinians in Gaza, including a mother and her four children, who were sitting around the breakfast table this morning when a missile landed on their home, we’ll have an on the ground report from Gaza City; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing ethnic cleansing there, … Continued
Blackwater mercenaries try and force their way into San Diego for the second time in a year; also, three cops walk in a brutal 2006 New York City killing of an unarmed young man the night before his wedding; plus, a tribute to the late Ruben Salazar who was just honored with a United States … Continued
World-renowned pediatrician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott talks about her new, national radio show; the Israeli military continues their special punishment for nonviolent Palestinian activists organizing their oppressed communities; JR and the Block Report take to the streets in Philadelphia as protest continue against the persecution of death row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal; and the … Continued
A special report on the decision by West Coast dockworkers to stop work on May 1st, to express their opposition to the Iraq war; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll take a look at the continuing housing meltdown, peaking oil prices and the beginning of food shortages; headlines from occupied Palestine; artists … Continued
