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Flashpoints – September 16, 2005

A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own community after being abandoned by the Federal government; plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales; how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 12, 2005

Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also, we’ll have a special update on the situation in New Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report, we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 9, 2005

Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina arrested by death squad police and facing grave danger; also, we return to the wreckage of the South, asFEMA’s chief is sacked for incompetency, we’ll have a report from ouremergency correspondent Malik Rahim, who is spearheading a grassroots initiative to return infrastructure, medical services and human rights to the area; … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 7, 2005

We’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government has vetoed a crucial microtransmitter radio project for the Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be doing, re-establishing … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 6, 2005

Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over ten thousand, as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults thousands of victims still stranded inside the Astro-Dome – We’ll have reports from New Orleans, Houston, and we’ll hear eye-witness accounts from those just back from the hardest hit areas: Also students protest Bush’s racist response … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 5, 2005

Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush … Continued


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Flashpoints – September 2, 2005

The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines … Continued