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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins re-election in a landslide victory over the weekend, we’ll speak with a reporter on the streets where people are still celebrating, in Caracas; also, we’ll speak with John Ross about people’s resistance movements in Mexico as Felipe Calderon assumes the presidency; Israeli settlers shoot and kill a 6 year old … Continued
Today on Flashpoints, The streets of Mexico City are filled with opposition protests to the inauguration of Felipe Calderon as president, we’ll speak with John Gibler in the Zocalo; We’ll also hear from the street protests in San Francisco, activists and organizers talk about sustained solidarity with Latin American resistance movements; and Flashpoints in Espanol … Continued
We hear excerpts from the hard-hitting new documentary, Occupation 101, which presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the United States’ role, and sheds light on the major obstacles … Continued
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
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
