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Today on Flashpoints:
A live report from Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman
on the ground in Hebron; Dahr Jamail in Fallujah on the ongoing
US massacre; also special excerpts from a teach-in on the
occupation of Haiti with Pierre Labossiere, founder of the
Haiti Action Network; and the bittersweet worldwide celebration
of the 50th birthday of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal;
5:01 PM PST
Hebron Perspective: In the first of a series of reports from
occupied Palestine, Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman
on the phone from Hebron describes walking through the city
from the bustling Farmers Market, past cement road blocks
to barbed wire surrounding Israeli settlements carved out
of the heart of the city from which residents were expelled,
to the ghost town of empty barricaded and boarded-up former
Palestinian homes, too close to annexed settlements for Israeli
settlers to tolerate. Compulsory listening for anyone who
has wondered what conditiond are really like in Palestine
today.
5:11 PM PST
Musical Break
5:11 PM PST
Destroying Fallujah, Saving Fallujah: Dahr Jamail, interviewed
by Dennis Bernstein, reports on the ultimatum given by US
military to the people of Fallujah, and also describes the
deceptive, dishonest and manipulative tactics of US soldiers
refusing to remove unexploded mortars from a farmer's fields.
Sniping of civilians continues, closure of the main hospital,
blocking of medical assistance and ambulances, and the hazards
of unexploded ordnance in the streets. Read more on NewStandardNews.net
5:19 PM PST
Tell the TRUTH About Haiti: Excerpts from the April 14 speakout
featuring Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Haiti Action Network
Founder Pierre Labossiere, independent journalist and filmmaker
Kevin Pina, and introduced by Flashpoints Executive Producer
Dennis Bernstein.
Dennis: Our objective tonight is to tell you the truth about
what happened in Haiti on February 29, 2004. On that date...
the United States government... kidnapped the duly elected
president of Haiti in a coup d'etat. This violent, anti-democratic
action was, without a doubt, the culmination of a multi-year
destabilization program carried out by surrogates and agents,
in one form or another, of the US government. This act of
state-sponsored terrorism was directed at the highest levels
of the US government by seasoned US coupists and terrorists
Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, both high level advisors to
the President of the United States...
5:39 PM PST
A Life in the Party: April 24, 2004 marks the 50th bithday
of Mumia
Abu-Jamal and the release of his new book We Want Freedom:
A life in the Black Panther Party. Jeff Meckler, of the Socialist
Action bookstore, and national coordinator of the Mobilization
to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal is interviewed by Flashpoints
Associate Producer Solange Echeverria. Jeff Meckler outlines
the circumstances surrounding Mumia's incarceration -a case
which is symptomatic of all that is wrong with the criminal
justice system in the US - and also the critical last minute
developments that saved Kevin Cooper from wrongful execution
in February of this year.
Events: See the FreeMumia.org
calendar
for details of the upcoming rally and march: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
First Internationalist Film Festival and MARCH & RALLY!
April 23 and 24, 2004
April 23-24, 2004 - SF, CA
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