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Today on a special editon of Flashpoints, we bring you part of the two part broadcast of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, with performances by the authors and Alice Walker, Mos Def, Steve Earle, Aya de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Luis Valdez and Nora el-Samahy, in a … Continued
An exclusive interview with JR of the Block Report, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, speaking from death row; also, an in-depth look at the current revolutionary struggles in Mexico; how South Dakota beat anti-choice legislation; and a previously unaired interview with Dr. Mike Alcolay, who passed away last weekend after living … Continued
A Lebanese cabinet minister is assassinated in Beirut, we’ll speak with our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine about what happened and how George Bush is placing blame on Syria and Iran; also, two Palestinians killed in Gaza city by Israeli death squads and an Israeli soldier shoots and kills a Palestinian boy near a checkpoint in … Continued
We go back to Oaxaca, Mexico, where Federal Police continued their violent attacks against protesters today, we’ll speak with Jon Gibler reporting from the streets in Oaxaca; also, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who many millions of people believe is the rightful President of Mexico, prepares for his inauguration; Israeli snipers in Gaza shoot two schoolchildren … Continued
Reports from Mexico, where presumed paramilitary forces in Chiapas attacked a community of Zapatista supporters, and in Oaxaca, the federal police continue to lock down the city as protesters maintain their presence; also, Francisco Herrera reports from the annual demonstration outside the School of the Americas, dubbed the School of the Assassins, in Fort Benning, … Continued
We spend most of the hour taking a look at Venezuela through the eyes of worker’s movements, the implementation of social programs and the new anti-neoliberalist economic policies under president Hugo Chavez; plus, news headlines from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.
A young, independent journalist continues his fight from behind prison bars against a Federal Grand Jury investigation for refusing to turn over his videotape of a San Francisco demonstration, we’ll speak with the lawyer representing Josh Wolf; also, SF Bay Area congressman Tom Lantos slated to chair the International Relations Committee in the new congress, … Continued
The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel for its obscene attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about what that means for Palestinians under continuous siege; also, Veteran for Peace and independent journalist Mike Ferner describes life in US-occupied Iraq and stories he encountered that the … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast to you from New College of California on Valencia Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District! We’ll speak with a former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the U.S. and a member of the youth community on the recent elections in Nicaragua; John Gibler joins us from Oaxaca, Mexico where Federal … Continued
