Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 23, 2005

Flashpoints Associate producer Nora Barrows Friedman is on the ground in the Dheisheh Refugee camp in occupied West Bank. She brings us her first report with the voices of the Palestinian refugees. Also we continue with the documentary, Dispatches; The Killing Zones, ISM activists killed by Israelis, and the knight report.


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 22, 2005

Flashpoints Associate producer Nora Barrows Friedman is on the ground in the Dheisheh Refugee camp in occupied West Bank. She brings us her first report with the voices of the Palestinian refugees. Also we continue with the documentary, Dispatches; The Killing Zones, ISM activists killed by Israelis, and the Knight Report.


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 21, 2005

Violence and heartache continue to explode in Haiti as the anniversary of the kidnapping of President Jean Bertrand Aristide nears, a conversation with Kevin Pina and Tom Griffin on the latest of Regimes Human Rights abuses; also an evening with Naomi Klein as we excerpt her talk on "War, Fleece."


Flashpoints

Flashpoints – February 15, 2005

A report from Beirut on the car bomb assassination of the former Prime Minister; plus token gestures and empty promises by the occupying Israeli government as Palestinians continue to suffer; the US-installed government uses former brutal military to justify slaughter of Aristide’s popular Lavalas movement Haiti; and the Knight report.


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Flashpoints – February 14, 2005

Radical independent folk-rocker and visionary Ani DiFranco speaks on politics, music and finding hope in these times, we’ll hear from her new CD, Knuckle Down; plus, excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary The Corporation, which charts the spectacular rise of institutions aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible … Continued


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Flashpoints – February 10, 2005

Noted human rights activist and defense attorney Lynne Stewart found guilty on trumped-up terrorism charges. We’ll hear from Lynne Stewart, speaking right after the guilty verdict, and an interview Mumia Abu Jamal did with Lynne Stewart about her case; we’ll also speak with members of the defense committee about the appeal; and, as North Korea … Continued