Flashpoints

Flashpoints – April 10, 2006

15 Palestinians killed by Israeli air strikes in a 36 hour period in Gaza, we’ll have a report from the ground as the shells continue to fall; also, the immigrants’ rights revolution continues to spread as millions of undocumented workers, their families and supporters continue to take to the streets; we’ll have a series of … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 7, 2006

Today, Walkout, a new film by Edward James Olmos, remembers the Chicano student uprising of 1968 in East LA, and sets the stage for the current student uprisings that started in LA and have caught on across the country, we’ll speak to Paula Christosemos, the leader of the 68 student rebellion; also, we’ll speak to … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 5, 2006

An exclusive interview with Haitian pro-democracy leader and priest of the poor, Father Gerard Jean Juste; also, on the road with the Zapatistas and the Other Campaign; an update on the burgeoning immigrants’ rights revolution in this country, which has called for a general strike and national student walkout on May 1st; and the Knight … Continued


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Flashpoints – April 4, 2006

As over a million Gazans face starvation, Israeli warplanes bomb a government building in Gaza City, we’ll have a report from Laila el-Haddad; also, a US-supported death squad leader in Honduras ordered to pay $47 million dollars for extra-judicial killings and torture; amidst spiraling scandals, Tom Delay, the once-powerful leader of the House pulls out … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 31, 2006

Today, we feature the voices of a growing student rebellion protesting the attempts by Congress to criminalize millions of undocumented immigrants; we’ll hear from students, their teachers, immigrants right activists and leaders in this movement; joining the dialogue on the 79th anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez will be Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 30, 2006

Author, scholar and 9-11 investigator David Ray Griffin tears the lid off the official story of the attack on the Twin Towers; plus, Flashpoints special correspondent Lyn Duff interviews a Haitian survivor of politically motivated mass rape as the international community fails to respond.


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Flashpoints – March 29, 2006

We’ll hear from high school student organizers who walked out of class today in protest against the anti-imigration legislation now before the US Senate; also, will the Supreme Court support the administration’s attempt to prosecute so-called terrorists in military tribunals? After his Kadima party win, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterates the call for … Continued


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Flashpoints – March 28, 2006

Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London reports from Kurdistan on the unraveling into civil war in US-occupied Iraq; also, Israelis vote for a new parliamentary government as occupation policies expand on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza; excerpts from a talk by Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill … Continued