Flashpoints – April 11, 2008
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.
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Flashpoints – April 10, 2008
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
Flashpoints – April 9, 2008
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
Flashpoints – April 8, 2008
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
Flashpoints – April 7, 2008
Death Row political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, in his own words, talks about the status of his case for the first time since the most recent ruling from the 3rd Circuit Court which recently denied his appeal; headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues to bomb and attack the Gaza strip; Rachel Corrie’s … Continued
Flashpoints – April 4, 2008
We welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We’ll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we’ll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we’ll speak … Continued
Flashpoints – April 3, 2008
More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.
Flashpoints – April 2, 2008
Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues reporting on Land Day and one woman’s story about losing her home in 1948 when Zionist militias began to purge Palestinians from their land; also, UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo exposed as the author of a newly-revealed torture memo; Bay Area Salvadorans protest the decision by San Francisco’s … Continued
Flashpoints – April 1, 2008
Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on Israeli military shoot-to-kill orders on nonviolent protesters; also, a riveting documentary on the commemoration of Land Day in occupied Palestine, to bring attention to the continued theft of Palestinian land by the Israeli state; John Ross reports from Mexico on the killing of members of a Mexican family … Continued
Flashpoints – March 31, 2008
Voices from War: a conscientious veteran who refused to load his gun in Iraq speaks out; also, Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler reports on Mexico and free trade; and the Knight Report.