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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
We’re back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California with an immigrant youth speak out against the war; we’ll also have a report from Washington, DC, where a number of activists were arrested at the Capitol for protesting the failure of Democrats to cut off funding for the war and occupation; … Continued
The White House and the Attorney General under fire for firing eight prosecutors based solely on their political views; also, protesters occupy the Congressional offices in Maryland and Washington DC of Senior Democrat and Dean of the Women’s Caucus Barbara McCulskey; plus, more violence in occupied Palestine as Israeli death squads continue to round up … Continued
A special Block report on the San Francisco Black Panther trial, and 25 years of oppression of Black liberation; also, military mom Tina Richards confronts David Olby, the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee about her son’s treatment and the illegal war in Iraq; plus, in violation of all previous agreements, Israel continues to … Continued
We’re back in the San Francisco Mission District at New College of California with a very special show that includes the legendary Haitian folksinger and political prisoner Annette Auguste, otherwise known as So Anne; we’ll have an in-depth follow up on the arrest of 361 mostly Guatemalan and Salvadoran women whose children were left to … Continued
Alfred McCoy talks about torture, psychological warfare and the CIA; also, 361 Latin American women arrested in Massachusetts and separated from over 100 of their children; Nane Alejandrez, director of Barrios Unidos, talks about the real causes of youth violence in the context of the attacks on the immigrant communities; headlines from the region; and … Continued
Today on a special International Women’s Day edition of Flashpoints, we hear the words of 27 year old Iraqi blogger Riverbend; looking at Palestinian refugee women’s rights and resistance under Israel’s brutal occupation and ethnic cleansing program; and Lebanese women document their lives through film, celebrated this week at a Bay Area film festival; and … Continued
Israeli occupiers abduct 45 Palestinians from the West Bank, including 13 school children, we’ll get a news report from the ground in Palestine; also, an activist from Oaxaca, Mexico, talks about human rights violations by the Federal police and the possibilities in bringing them to an International Court; and a new report that says a … Continued
Former chief of staff for vice president Cheney faces up to 25 years in jail, being convicted on 4 felony counts, will this be the end of the road for the Plame investigation or will it open the door for bigger fish? Also, Israeli occupiers shoot two Palestinians in another lockdown in the West Bank … Continued
Active-duty GIs, conscientious objectors, military recruitment resisters, activists and students join a live audience to talk about the Bush administration plans to expand the illegal wars in the Middle East and the growing movement to challenge those plans from within the military itself.
An update on the militarization of the US-Mexican border and the battle for immigrants’ rights in the border states; also, immigrants’ rights activists are arrested at the San Francisco Federal Building at the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; we’ll have an in-depth report on the continuing battle by the grassroots activists in Oaxaca, Mexico; … Continued
