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Today on Flashpoints:
Mexican special forces open fire on peasant protesters resisting...
who knows? maybe a WalMart?... in Mexico killing a 14 year-old
and arresting over a hundred - we'll have a report from that
bloddy scene; also a report-back on the total breakdown if
the Iraqi medical system after the US-led occupation and sanctions;
Palestine news headlines from Kristen Ess; and Earth Matters
- MAXXAM Pacific Lumber is suing activists who risked their
lives defending California's ancient redwood forests; and
of course, the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
- US warplanes kill 13 during a bombing raid in Ramadiyah
as resistance forces kill a dozen police recruits and an
Iraqi General
- Turkey and Iran continue counter-Kurdish border operations
in Northern Iraq, while the Bush administration builds a
palace embassy bigger than Vatican City in the US-controlled
Green Zone
- Israel's newly ratified Prime Minister claims that Jewish
settlements in the West Bank will be permanent
- Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to 6 lifetimes in a federal
prison, and
- Mexico's President backs off a theraputic drug law and
attacks a rebellious town near Mexico City
5:06 PM PST
Mexican Special Forces Target Peasant Farmers - Peaceful protests
by peasant flower-vendors in the town of San Salvador Atenco
on the outskirts of Mexico City on the eve of Cinco de Mayo
are met with a brutal response from police and special forces,
resulting in at least on death, serious injuries and a hundred
arrests.
- John Gibler, special correspondent
- Alejandro Reyes, activist
Reaction
to the incident at San Salvador Atenco
Read
Subcomandante Marcos' Words at Tlatelolco
Read about the Zapatista
Red Alert
5:24 PM PST
Music Break – After the Garden – Neil Young
5:27 PM PST
Medical Disaster in US-Occupied Iraq
Dr. Jeff Ritterman, Chief of Cardiology at Kaiser, Richmond,
and member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the
California Physicians Alliance
5:40 PM PST
News Headlines from Occupied Palestine
for the Week of April 28 to May 4, 2006
Kristen Ess, FP Correspondent, Palestine
News Network
5:46 PM PST
Earth Matters - Amanda Bellerby with Remedy, Earth
First! who describes her year-long tree-sitting experience
in 2002 at Freshwater Creek, and Pacific Lumber's SLAPP lawsuit.
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