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 7/29
A special live edition broadcast from New College in the hear
of San Francisco Mission District. A special report focuses
on the 3rd Annual Assembly of Day Laborers in New York, with
college Renee Salsado. An update on the killing fields in
Haiti with Kevin Pina. Discussion on the documentary "A
Place Called Chiapas". Headlines from the region, guest
host Francisco Heurera.
7/28
A new documentary about the US Government's coverup of US
Military deaths and serious injuries; also tonight, poets
stand up for soldiers who refuse to serve - we'll hear about
a special benefit; and a summary of the week's news from occupied
Palestine;
7/27
Kevin Pina joins us for an update on Father Jean Juste who
is in his fifth day of isolation in Haiti's National Penitentiary.
An update on the Draconian Trade Plan called CAFTA. A dialogue
with Flashpoints producers on Free Speech in times of War
and Struggle. And from Exile, the Robert Knight Report;
7/26
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail on media complicity
in US war crimes in Iraq; also, an update on the life and
death situation surrounding the jailing of Haitian priest
and pro-democracy leader Father Gerard Jean Juste; and from
exile in New York, the Knight Report;
7/25
Father Gerard Jean Juste still being held in isolation at
the Haitian National Penitentiary, neither his Bishop nor
his attorney has been allowed to see him; a background briefing
on the Egyptian bombing, the Iraq occupation and the twin
tinderboxes of Beirut and Palestine; plus, Israel prepares
to close the gate on the big prison of Gaza, we'll hear from
professor Ilan Pappe on the Israeli plan for Gaza's 1.5 million
Palestinians; and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/22
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast
from the New College of California in the heart of the San
Francisco Mission District! Pastors for Peace, bus-bound for
Cuba, taken into custody by Homeland Security, we’ll
speak to people on the bus; also, Father Gerard Jean Juste
faces trumped-up charges on the murder of a Haitian journalist;
commemorating the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and preventing another nuclear holocaust; We’ll hear
headlines from the region, a commentary from roving producer
Miguel Gavilan Molina, and of course, Flashpoints en Espanol;
7/21
Legendary Haitian pro-democracy leader Father Gerard Jean
Juste beaten at a funeral for slain journalist Jacques Roche
and then detained by Haitian police, we’ll have a report
from Port-au-Prince, we’ll be joined by Kevin Pina in
the studio and we’ll hear a report on this day of international
protest against UN participation in Haiti’s killing
fields; also, a weekly report from the Palestine News Network
and a report-back from a special guest on her return home
from Palestine; and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/20
Protest planned around the world tomorrow against the US sponsored
killing fields in Haiti; We’ll feature reports from
Haiti, and a round table discussion on the ongoing massacres
there with members of a recent fact finding tour: and on this
week’s edition of earth matters, we speak with Green-Peace
Russia about lingering toxic wastes from the Soviet Era: and
the Knight Report;
7/19
Major invasions by Israel across the West Bank, at least two
people are already dead; plus, Ken Lay, CEO of Enron and close
Bush contributor, finally comes to trial, but will he really
be prosecuted? Medicinal marijuana activist takes his own
life rather than face hard jail time, we'll remember him and
talk about the status of medicinal marijuana; and the Knight
Report;
7/18
Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad after a weekend that
claimed the lives of over 150 people in Iraq; plus, Father
Gerard Jean Juste under attack in Haiti; Israel amasses at
the border for a siege against Gaza; and Barbara Lubin reports
back from occupied Palestine;
7/15
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast
from the New College of California in the heart of the San
Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a special report
on the vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen; we’ll
also report on the arrest of legendary pro-democracy Haitian
leader Father Gerard Jean Juste; the UFW takes on Gallo Wines;
we’ll be joined by those working to purge campuses of
military recruiters; we’ll hear headlines from the region,
a commentary from roving producer Miguel Gavilan Molina, and
of course, Flashpoints en Espanol;
7/14
As Palestinians continue to live in fear of settlers and the
military in Gaza, Israelis execute a Palestinian resistance
leader during an interview with a reporter; an explosive new
report on corporate giant Alcoa’s attack on workers
rights in Mexico and Central America; a spirited protest against
the killings from the people of Cite Soleil in Haiti; Earth
Matters explores deep ecology in an interview with John Seed;
and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/13
Bloody wars, occupation and internal conflicts on three different
continents take a terrible toll on women and children; we
will feature reports from Kenya, Iraq, and Northern Ireland
and we’ll hear from the legendary pro-democracy leader
Father Gerard Jean Juste from a protest in Miami against the
slaughter of the women and children in Cite Soleil in Haiti;
and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/12
Infants, women and children massacred in Haiti, we’ll
speak to our special correspondent Kevin Pina about the killings;
plus, we’ll take a look at Bush’s Brain as his
chief advisor Karl Rove faces ten years in federal prison,
and we’ll find out what you think about Bush’s
Brain ,or lack thereof, with your phone calls; and from exile,
the Knight Report;
7/11
One year after the International Court of Justice declares
Israel’s apartheid wall illegal, an Israeli security
guard shoots dead a fifteen year old boy tending to his grapes
near the wall in the West Bank; also, legendary filmmaker
John Pilger on the implications of what he calls Blair’s
Bombs, the war on Iraq and the failure of the G8 summit; part
two of our special in-depth look at Africa’s debt with
Africa Action’s Executive Director Salih Booker; and
from exile, the Knight Report;
7/8
Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast
from the New College of California in the heart of the San
Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a report-back
on a bold action taken by immigrants rights activists in Sacramento
this week; also, we’ll look at how the Zapatistas are
counteracting Free Trade with non-GMO corn; we’ll hear
headlines from the region, a commentary from roving producer
Miguel Gavilan Molina, and of course, Flashpoints en Espanol;
7/7
Noted author and novelist Tariq Ali on today’s multiple
bombings in Britain; we’ll also feature an account from
street level on one of the bombings; plus, we hear from an
eyewitness to yesterday’s slaughter in the streets of
Cite Soleil in Haiti; we’ll take a look at Africa in
the context of the G8, will today’s bombings give Bush
and Blair another chance to turn their back on Africa? We’ll
hear from Starhawk at the eco-village outside of the G8 talks
in Edinburgh; and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/6
Another Lavalas leader gunned down in Cite Soleil, also on
the Haitian front, international activists petition the US
and Haitian officials for the release of legendary Haitian
folk singer Annette Auguste; plus, a California Senator flips
the script again and joins the Republicans again in support
of CAFTA; Miguel Molina reports from Sacramento on a protest
for immigrant rights; and the Knight Report;
7/5
Life and death stories from Haiti as our special correspondent
returns to the studio for a report back on the worsening situation
in one of the poorest countries in the world; also, three
diplomats and two wounded in the last three days of fighting
in Iraq, we'll feature an in-depth discussion of where the
war and occupation is now and where it's going; plus, will
the Republicans try and jam John Bolton through for a backdoor
recess appointment, a look at the expanding war in Colombia;
and from exile, the Knight Report;
7/4
We re-broadcast a special investigation into the autism-mercury
link with Robert Kennedy Jr., he'll explain the massive coverup
by US Congressmen, the CDC and the FDA, intimidated and paid
off by big pharmeceutical companies, to inject our children
with high levels of mercury in childhood vaccines; also, we'll
hear from a psychologist and a mother of an 11-year old autistic
child as she talks about her fight against the US government;
and an update on how to fight military recruitment in our
public schools and college campuses;
7/1
We’ll speak with immigrants rights activist Juan Jose
Gutierrez about the Dream Act; a local Mission District shop
owner and entrepreneur who specializes in crafts and goods
from Chiapas and other areas in Mexico talks about the importance
of supporting the work of Zapatistas and transcending the
brutalities of free trade; plus, immigrants rights attorney
Rene Saucedo speaks about frontline battles to protect immigrant
laborers from street-level attacks and governmental oppression;
a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina; and Flashpoints en
Espanol;
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