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Today on Flashpoints:
Calderon squeeks by Obrador by less than one-half of one percent
of the vote in Mexico - we'll have a live report from John
Ross in Mexico City; also Israeli occupiers push deep into
Gaza, killing more than 24 and wounding many more; and the
first in our series of women resisting war - we interview
performance artist Sherry Glaser;
5:01 PM PST
Mexico Election, 2006 - John Ross, long an observer of politics
in Mexico, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, discusses the
significance of this election as a choice between North and
South, rich and poor. Computerized vote machine irregularities,
"lost" votes and unexplained patterns in vote counts
raise questions about the validity of the results. Andrés
Manuel López Obrador has vowed to challenge the count
and has called for a rally of supporters in Mexico City on
at 5PM on Saturday July 8.
For more on the vote anomalies, read the article
by Al Giordano on NarcoNews.com
5:17 PM PST
Israeli Armed Assault on Gaza Escalates
In what is clearly a campaign of illegal destruction of infrastructure,
kidnapping of political leaders, and collective punishment
of Palestinian civilians that is designed to undermine, disrupt
and dismantle the elected Hamas government, ongoing daily
Israeli attacks continue to kill dozens of civilians and destroy
the property and livlihoods of thousands more, carried out
under the pretext of reaction to the military capture on one
Israeli soldier.
Richard Becker, a member of the National Steering Committee
for the International
ANSWER Coalition and West Coast Coordinator of the International
Action Center, is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.
Find out about protest and boycott actions across the USA.
For up-to-the-minute news, visit the International Middle
East Media Center, www.imemc.org,
and read weekly
summaries of human rights violations at the Palestinian
Centre for Human Rights, www,pchrgaza.org
5:32 PM PST
Women Resisting War - Sherry Glaser
Actress, radical performance artist and activist Sherry Glaser,
interviewed by Dennis Bernstein discusses the rationale for
the guerilla action group Breasts
Not Bombs, which contrasts the indecency and obscenity
of war with the natural grace and beauty of the human body.
Many who calmly accept war find the sight of an exposed breast
intolerable obscenity.
Sherry Glaser is currently performing her one-woman show
Oh My Goddess!
at the Marsh
Theater in San Francisco through July 15. For information,
call (800) 838-3006
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