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Today on Flashpoints:
Attacks on the people of Darfur intensify as thousands more
flee the country; we'll have a special reportr with Dr. Charlie
Clements, taking part in Sunday's National Day of Conscience
to stop the ongoing genocide; plus, International Solidarity
Movement co-founder and investigative filmmaker Adam Shapiro
talks about his new film Darfur Diaries that chronicles the
violence and enveloping crisis in Darfuri refugee camps; news
from occupied Palestine with Kristen Ess; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report:
* Iraq's Prime Minister announces a plan to embed Shia militias
into the army and police
* Grand Ayatullah Sistani
endorses the plan but Muqtada al-Sadr declines to disband
the Mahdi army
* Iraq's Kurds are at the center of border stresses with Iran
and Turkey, and
* The US ambassador to Iraq says the Bush administration has
an ultimate goal of controlling all of the oil regions between
Pakistan and Morrocco.
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
Spotlight on Crisis in Darfur
Charlie Clements, human rights worker; physician; president,
Unitarian Universalist Service
Committee
Read News of the recent attacks
Read the recent HRW report, Entrenching
Impunity: Government Responsibility for International Crimes
in Darfur
Join the rally in San Francisco on Sunday April 30 ourpledge.org/april30.html
5:25 PM PST
Music Break – Colére – Nuru Kane Sigil
5:26 PM PST
Film: Darfur Diaries
Adam Shapiro, co-founder, International
Solidarity Movement, filmmaker www.darfurdiaries.org
5:45 PM PST
Music Break – Granada – Marcel Khalife
5:46 PM PST
Palestine News Headlines for the week of April 21/27, 2006
Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine
News Network
* Israeli undercover forces invade Bethlehem and kill 2
young Palestinian men, injure a third man; an eyewitness account
* Isreali forces continued to escalate their attacks, invasions,
wall and settlement construction, and arrests throughout the
week; a report from Nablus
* A Palestinian political prisoner dies, allegedly from medical
neglect
* The US-led economic boycott against Palestine continues
as Norway and Japan pledge support; US threatens international
banks not to transfer funds
* Gaza hospital faces depletion of basic medical supplies
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