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Today on Flashpoints:
An Overview of the Bush Administration's Assault on First
Amendment Rights and Free Expression. A Young African-American
Activist is Now Serving a Year in the Federal Pen on Trumped
Up Political Charges of Terrorism; 10 Years After the Zapatista
Uprising, We'll Take a Look at the Role of Women in the Movement;
and from New York City, The Knight Report
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: More resistance in Iraq; reinvasions of
the Palestinian territories; at least 40,000 deaths in Iran;
more Guns on Airplanes; and health fears from beef and ephedra
5:05 PM PST
Attack on Civil Rights and Liberties: Dennis discusses civil
liberties curtailments with Michael
Ratner, President of the Center
for Constitutional Rights
5:19 PM PST
Musical Break
5:20 PM PST
Sherman Austin and Raise the Fist Website Case: Dennis talks
with Sherman Austin's mother about her son's incarceration,
death threats and hardships. A politically motivated case
with manufactured evidence and distortion thoroughly documented
by Jennifer Martin-Ruggierio,
his mother, has created a tremendous motivation to reveal
manipulation of the justice system. Ref: www.freesherman.org
5:52 PM PST
Musical Break
5:53 PM PST
Zapatista Women: As the 10th anniversary of the Zapatista
Uprising in Chiapas, Mexico approaches, Associate Producer
Solange Echeverria speaks with Maria Elena Martinez, a research
fellow at the Center for the Study of the Americas in Berkeley
and also a founding member of the Chiapas
Support Committee (more on this segment tomorrow also).
Read the history
of the uprising.
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