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Today on Flashpoints:
Vigilantes threaten day laborers and immigrant workers in northern California; aspecial report from Santa Rosa; continuation of dialogue with those who were forced to flee Lebanon after the Israelis and the US started destroying the country again; poetry with Aurora Levins Morales; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on another live Friday edition of Flashpoints, the vigilantes threaten day laborers and immigrant workers in northern California; we’ll have a special report from Santa Rosa; we’ll also continue our dialogue with those who were forced to flee Lebanon after the Israelis and the US started destroying the country again; poetry with Aurora Levins Morales; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.

01:00 Introduction from New College of California in San Francisco
Dennis Bernstein, Francisco Herrerra, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Nora Barrows-Friedman

All you need is a t-shirt (and a gun) 08:00 Minutemen Racist Vigilantes Come to Northern California
Miguel Molina with Devin Cardenas, Grayton Day Labor Center Outreach Coordinator, activist for Sonoma County Immigrant Rights Coalition, contributing reporter for Flashpoints and La Onda Bajita

18:00 American Professor from Lebanon Speaks Out
Alexander Arguelles, American professor working in Lebanon
Read the amazing first-person account Deliverance, published in the San Jose Mercury News (08/13/2006)

32:00 Poetry
Aurora Levins-Morales, Flashpoints Poet-on-Assignment
EVENT: Saturday night (Aug 19) at Kehila Community Synagogue

39:00 Headlines from the Region
Miguel Guerrero and Dennis Bernstein

45:00 Flashpoints en Español
Noticias en Español y una entrevista con Alexander Arguelles

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