Flashpoints

Flashpoints – March 10, 2006

Over 100,000 people gather in Chicago to protest continued attacks on immigrant workers and their supporters; also, does God love war? We’ll take a look at faith and fanaticism with Hamza Yusuf and Chris Hedges; we report on the upcoming immigrant rights march from Tijuana to San Francisco; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 9, 2006

Over 80 people incinerated inside a US-contracted garment factory in Bangladesh; also, the Pastor of the Galilee Baptist Church in rural Alabama talks about the capture of three white kids who burned the community’s 100-year old church; high school students in Oakland raise money to buy geiger counters for high schoolers in Chernobyl, 20 years … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 8, 2006

Interview with Amira Hass, leading Israeli journlalist with Ha’aretz, who reports from the occupied West Bank and consistently "monitors the centers of power" – Segment on Palestinian women’s issues, produced by youth students at the Ibdaa Cultural Center – Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, renowned anti-nuclear activist


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Flashpoints – March 7, 2006

Israeli drones fire missiles into Gaza, in a policy of targeted assasination against Palestinians, including resistance leaders and children; we’ll discuss how divestment from Israeli companies can stop the occupation policies in Palestine; also, women lose their right to choose in South Dakota; we’ll feature a report on academic freedoms after September 11th; plus, on … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 6, 2006

25 years after the Bhopal chemical disaster and the dying continues as the killers live free and in luxury; also, the ethnic cleansing of Black communities in America, today we’ll focus in on the expanding city-supported corporate raid in the BayView-Hunter’s Point neighborhoods of San Francisco, as we continue a special Flashpoints investigation series; and … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 1, 2006

Bush puts on his hat as a weapons salesman for his whirlwind trip to India, we’ll feature an open letter to George W Bush by Anuradha Mittal; plus, over 40 Palestinian children arrested in the Bethlehem area over the past three weeks, we’ll feature a report on the brutal conditions they face in Israeli prisons, … Continued