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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.
Iraq Veterans bring a landmark lawsuit against the VA for failing to provide proper mental health care to returning vets, we’ll speak toone of the key organizers; also, filmmakers report from inside the courtroom and take the story to young people; plus, a report from theoccupied Gaza strip, where US-made Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships … Continued
We broadcast live from the Sonoma Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa! United Farmworkers win a major victory against Chales Krug, including the re-hiring of key workers; also, not a single Latino delegate was elected from the Obama campaign from San Francisco to Santa Rosa; we’ll have headlines from the region, Flashpoints en Espanol, … Continued
We’ll feature an update on the international call for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal; We’ll have an exclusive interview with the Angola 3, who were moved after 36 years of solitary confinement into general maximum security; And, an in-depth interview with Black Panther Charllotte O’Neal talks about her husband Pete O’Neal’s continuing exile in Tanzania.
Food riots and grassroots struggle continues in Haiti; Also, we’ll have a global perspective on the massive struggle to feed the world’s hungry; Plus, a Palestinian rights activist is held in solitary confinement in his 45th day of a hunger strike; Activist Nation features the million signature campaign in Iran and the plight of women’s … Continued
Iconic singer songwriter Ani DiFranco speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman on her evolution as a musician, life as mother, and her community in New Orleans; Plus, our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the educational crisis and fuel shortages in Gaza; And the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
Body of War, a new documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, we’ll be joined in studio by the filmmakers; Also, Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the Wheels of Justice bus tour; Anuradha Mittal reports on a global hunger emergency; And the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
State violence in Mexico against women activists and journalists; Also, Miguel Perez reports on a takeover in the Mexican Congress in protest of the privatization of oil; and Headlines en Espanol.
For the third day thousands of Haitians protest the rise in food and fuel prices and call for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide; Also, Kristen Ess reports as many as a million Palestinians facing hunger as UN food supplies run out; We’ll get a report from Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the occupation … Continued
Israeli occupation forces kill ten Palestinians in Gaza, and kidnap 50 in the West Bank in a series of expanded raids; also, a second generation of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other advanced US weaponry continue to take their silent toll across US-occupied Iraq; we report on an in-depth assessment of the body count of … Continued
Thousands of Haitians rush the Presidential palace and are dispersed by UN forces firing teargas and rubber bullets; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess interviews a major political leader in the West Bank about the expanded colonization of Jerusalem; we’ll also feature a special report on a Fallujah prison that’s more like a dungeon; and … Continued
