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Today on Flashpoints:
We’ll go back to Port-au-Prince, where the ongoing purge
of pro-democracy activists by the US-installed puppet continues
to take its toll; also, Guava: First Bite, Last Breath, an
accounting of the last hours of a thirteen year old Palestinian
boy before he was shot by Israeli occupiers in Gaza; plus,
artists respond to the illegal Israeli apartheid wall, we’ll
speak with Eric Drooker and Susan Greene; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: The Bush administration's disastrous invasion
and fiercely resisted occupation of Iraq took still more calamitous
turns today - with a mortar attack on the puppet prime minister;
British troops bailing out Americans in Baghdad and Fallujah;
a New Zealand troop withdrawal; and a belated admission by
Central Command that still more US troops are needed to maintain
the pretense of order during military elections, and to expropriate
the oil of occupied Iraq. (Robert Knight in NY)
5:06 PM PST
Breaking news from Haiti: Kevin Pina, special correspondent
in Port-au-Prince (Dennis)
- Visit the website of the Haiti
Action Committee for more information, including accounts
of the arrest of Father Gerard Jean Juste during which three
children were shot by masked Haitian police.
5:16 PM PST
Guava in Jabalya: First Bite, Last Breath - Sami abu Salem,
Electronic Intifada.net
The seeds of guava were still between 13-year-old Saber Assaliya's
lips when an Israeli tank shot him in the waist. The boy was
playing in a nearby orchard at the southern tip of the Jabalia
Refugee Camp, in the north of Gaza... (read by Nora)
5:21 PM PST
Art and Resistance in Palestine: Eric Drooker and Susan Greene,
Break the Silence Mural Project - breakthesilencearts.org
- In 1990, BTS painted a mural in San Francisco about the
Palestinian right to a homeland. This mural made connections
between issues of "home" in San Francisco's Mission
District and in Palestine
Click
for a larger picture of the San Francisco mural
5:40 PM PST
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