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Today on Flashpoints:
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hears the final
plea for clemency by attorneys representing Stanley "Tookie"
Williams - we'll have an update on the case; also, 20 racist
cops from the Bayview District in San Francisco busted for
allegedly producing a viciously racist and sexist videotape
mocking the people they are supposed to protect; we'll get
an update from our special New Orleans correspondent Malik
Rahim, founder of the Common Ground Collective; the Federal
Court of Appeals agrees to hear two aspects of the case of
Mumia abu-Jamal which were previously ignored; and the Knight
Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Thirty die in a Baghdad bus bomb attack
which used new tactics to defeat standard security sweeps;
a hostage is killed and several more threatened with demands
for release of political prisoners in Iraq; US troops seal
the Syrian border as Iraq's occupation regime imposes a state
of emergency in a Sunni region; and, a Sunni Council announces
a boycott of next week's militarily occupied elections; there's
a secret plan for reduced US troop deployment in Iraq; and
the Pentagon reacts to diminishing recruitment with an advertising
budget of more than a billion dollars for its Army of One.
5:09 PM PST
Stanley Tookie Williams’ Clemency Hearing: Todd Chretien,
Save Tookie Coalition.
Visit SaveTookie.org
for more information on upcoming events.
Call Governor Schwarzenegger to ask for clemency for Stan
'Tookie' Williams (916) 445-2841
Email GOVERNOR@GOVERNOR.CA.GOV
5:18 PM PST
San Francisco PD’s Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Video:
Malaika Parker, Bay
Area Police Watch, with Mesha Irizarry, Idriss Stelley
Foundation, and Willie Ratcliff, SF
BayView
5:36 PM PST
Jackson, Miss. Conference on Katrina Inaction by the US Government:
Malik Rahim, activist, founder of the Common
Ground Collective
5:50 PM PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Break In the Case: Jeff Mackler, National
Mobilization to Free Mumia abu-Jamal. Read more...
5:56 PM PST
Ted Friedman and John Lennon in Memoriam
Read about Ted
Friedman and KPFA
Visit the UK
Guardian's John Lennon - A Life in Pictures
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