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Today on Flashpoints:
Plan Colombia Continues to Prove Deadly for Most Colombians.
The Governator’s Opening Salvo Against Immigrant Workers
and Immigrant Rights;
George Bush Brings Back the Green Card, Which Immigrants Say
is the Slave Card;
As the world focus' on US images and attempts to colonize
Mars, Flashpoints examines US foreign policy as it pertains
to continued intervention in the struggle of people worldwide,
whether along the West Bank or the along the banks of the
Amazon in Columbia.
5:01 PM PST
Solange Echeverria interviews studio guest Philip Cryan, Freelance
writer, columnist for Columbia Week, Witness for Peace, and
Pesticide Action Network on the dangers of Plan Columbia.
Philip spent the last 2 years on and off there. $3 Billion
US Dollars have gone towards the War in Columbia. This War
has been going on for 40 years. Arrest of FARC leader and
it's use justifiying the US actions, policy and war on the
Columbian people.
5:19 PM PST
Music Break
5:20 PM PST
Immigrant Rights in California. Solange interviews Rigo Valdez,
Bay Area organizer for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
, National Field Rep for the Western Region of the AFL-CIO.
5:39 PM PST
Music Break
5:40 PM PST
Bush’s Immigrant Worker Initiative, Miguel Molina with
Juan Jose Guitierrez, from Education and Immigration Services
in Los Angeles. Governor and Teachers Association came to
agreement on a $2 Billion cut in education spending coming
on the heels of massive threats to immigrant rights. Latest
developments in Education and Immigration and the impact of
recent economic developments in California on the immigrant
community. In the 1990's an estimated 3 million immigrants
came to live and work in California. Immigrants represent
50% of the resident and labor force in California. Juan outlines
how these cutbacks affect the immigrant populations in California.
Full enrollments will not be funded , causing severe blows
and problems for the entire state's future. The Republican
Right has actively attacked bilingual education continuously.
ESL, English as a Second Language is an open target for cuts.
Big business will benefit while education of our youth and
our future will suffer.
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