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Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli drones fire missiles into Gaza, in a policy of targeted
assassination against Palestinians, including resistance leaders
and children; we’ll discuss how divestment from Israeli
companies can stop the occupation policies in Palestine; also,
women lose their right to choose in South Dakota; we’ll
feature a report on academic freedoms after September 11th;
plus, on Earth Matters, a look at the escalation of the FBI's
war on domestic dissent and free speech; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
Robert Knight
* British and American forces are digging in for at least
another two years in Iraq
* A California sheriff's deputy escapes attempted homicide
charges in the deliberate shooting of an Iraq war veteran,
and
* Another American veteran of the war on Iraq gets a reduced
sentence in Italy for the abduction, beating and rape of an
African woman
5:06 PM PST
Palestinian Children Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza - Laila
el-Haddad, correspondent, al-Jazeera
and Free
Speech Radio News
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com
5:14 PM PST
Music Break
5:16 PM PST
Discussion on Economic Divestment from Israel - Nasser abu-Farha
and Mark Evenson, Univ. of Wisconsin Divestment Campaign
Download the Guide
to Campus Divestment from Israel (pdf format)
email evansonm@uwplatt.edu
5:25 PM PST
Women Losing Right to Choose - Nancy Keenan, President, NARAL
Pro-Choice America
5:31 PM PST
Music Break
5:32 PM PST
Academic Freedoms after 9/11 - Beshara Doumani, UC Berkeley
Professor of Middle Eastern history and social and cultural
history analyzes the historical significance of the post-9/11
threats to academic freedom. Professor Doumani will be speaking
at Cody's Books in
Berkeley at 7:30PM on March 9, 2006
5:44 PM PST
Earth Matters - Amanda Bellerby speaking with civil rights
attorney Ben Rosenfeld
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