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Today on Flashpoints:
Over 80 people incinerated inside a US-contracted garment factory in Bangladesh; also, the Pastor of the Galilee Baptist Church in rural Alabama talks about the capture of three white kids who burned down the community’s 100-year old church; high school students in Oakland raise money to buy geiger counters for high schoolers in Chernobyl, 20 years after the worst nuclear accident in history; and the Knight Report;

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5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
Robert Knight

* New details in the abduction of an Iraqi security firm
* The occupation regime hangs 13 alleged militants, and
* This week's Alabama church burnings echo earlier assaults on southern black communities

5:05 PM PST
Death and Illegal Practices in US-Contracted Garment Factory in Bangladesh - Charlie Kernigan, National Labor Committee, www.nlcnet.org;
Read about an almost identical incident in Bangladesh on January 6, 2005

5:31 PM PST
Music Break - Sweet Honey in the Rock - Are My Hands Clean?

5:32 PM PST
White Arsonists Burn 9 Churches in Alabama - Rev. Bob Little, Galilee Baptist Church; Sam Walker, founder, National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama;
A list of churches in need of help to rebuild

5:51 PM PST
Oakland High School Students Raise Awareness of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Students at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland
http://www.bishopodowd.org/activities/chernobyl.htm

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