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 9/30
Immigrants rights activists call for a boycott against Greyhound
Buses for their dangerous, extra-legal collaboration with
Homeland Security; also, the Presbyterian Church USA speaks
out about border violence; the fight to name the Berkeley
Post Office after legendary civil rights activist Maudelle
Shirek; comic-activist Randy Credico, featured in the new
film 60 Spins Around the Sun; headlines from the region; and
Flashpoints en Espanol also hones in on the Greyhound strike;
9/29
Remembering the bloody 1965 CIA coup forty years ago today
in Indonesia; also, House speaker Tom Delay steps down after
being indicted for interfering in Texas State elections; news
headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues its
siege against Gaza; immigrants rights activists call for a
boycott of Greyhound Bus because of their alleged racism against
immigrants; and the Knight Report;
9/28
Israeli occupation forces tightened the screws on Gazan’s,
opening fire on civilian neighborhoods with helicopter gun
ships and deafening aerial percussion bombs, while arresting
over three hundred in sweeps through the West Bank; And A
tribunal on Haiti condemns the US sponsored coup there and
the Knight Report;
9/27
Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes continue to slam
missiles into the occupied Gaza strip, we’ll speak with
Kristen Ess about the latest from Palestine, with Uda Walker
on the connections concerning the economic strangleholds and
the systems of apartheid in Palestine and between the US and
Mexico; plus, pro-independence activist Filiberto Ojeda Rios
assassinated by the FBI in Puerto Rico; a poem by Suheir Hammad;
and the Knight Report;
9/26
Ariel Sharon orders a continuous attack against Gaza, at least
four Palestinians are already dead and many are wounded, including
children attacked by a missile fired on their classroom; also,
our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the ongoing
killing fields of Iraq; plus, in a day of civil disobedience
in Washington DC, Cindy Sheehan is arrested outside the White
House while others are rounded up after blocking entrances
to the Pentagon; we’ll feature speeches from the massive
antiwar protests in DC and San Francisco; and the Knight Report;
9/23
We’re back at New College of California in a continuing
live collaboration in the Mission District, on the eve of
tomorrow’s antiwar march in San Francisco! We’ll
have a report from a ghost town called Houston as Texans continue
to flee Rita, we’ll hear from Houston and New Orleans
where the levees are failing and the streets are flooding
again; noted educational critic Jonathan Kozol on apartheid
in America’s schools; headlines from the region; and
Flashpoints en Espanol;
9/22
Putting the Bush Adnministration on trial for torture, abuse
and multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions; we'll talk
with Jennifer Harbury about her new book Truth, Torture and
the American Way, and her plans this weekend in Washington,
DC for holding a mock tribunal and presenting evidence against
the Administration for torture and high crimes; also we'll
have a report from Texas on the million-plus people fleeing
from hurricane Rita; we'll have news headlines from Palestine;
plus, activists prepare to take on the military recruiting
headquarters in Oakland; and the Knight Report;
9/21
Nationally-noted poet Sharon Olds refuses to break bread with
First Lady Laura Bush at the National Book Festival; we replay
our recent interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway;
and the Knight Report;
9/20
British troops make war on their Iraqi allies, killing a number
of US-trained police, we’ll examine why; also, tracking
the vigilantes at the US-Mexico border; a hearing on the latest
police shooting of an innocent youth in BayView-Hunters Point;
Books Not Bars calls for an alternative to incarceration and
more support for our youth; an update on the nationwide antiwar
protest scheduled for this weekend; even in the face of an
oncoming hurricane, Cuban doctors still being prevented from
meeting the needs of desperate flood victims in the US; and
the Knight Report;
9/19
A special report on the profound psychological impact of the
flood on the poorest people of Louisiana; also, we continue
our series of poets in a time of war, with the visionary teaching
work of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; and the
Knight Report;
9/16
A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of
New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own
community after being abandoned by the Federal government;
plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales;
how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids
for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years of
our sister show La Onda Bajita;and Flashpoints en Español;
9/15
A free-wheeling interview with British parliamentarian George
Galloway on Iraq, Palestine, the New Orleans flood, Christopher
Hitchens and the criminal Bush administration; a report from
the field in Louisiana about the poor communities that have
been abandoned by the Feds; a roundup of weekly headlines
from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report;
9/14
We’ll hear from our Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina,
who was released without charges after being held behind bars
over the weekend; over 114 dead in Iraq after a series of
car bombs, and many more killed in a US attack on Tal Afar,
we’ll speak with Robert Fisk about the latest slaughter;
plus, assessing the environmental catastrophe in New Orleans;
as the state of Texas plans to murder another black woman
at midnight tonight, activists are mobilized to save the life
of Frances Newton; and Laila el-Haddad talks about Palestinians
reuniting with their families across the Gaza-Egypt border
after decades of separation;
9/13
Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky, WBAI's
Deepa Fernandes, and Free Speech Radio News' Capitol Hill
Correspondent Mitch Jeserich anchor with live news reports
on breaking stories from New Orleans. (Mitch Jeserich, Deepa
Fernandes, Larry Bensky);
9/12
Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without
charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also,
we’ll have a special update on the situation in New
Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report,
we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s
rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila el-Haddad
talks about a ghost town becoming a playground in Gaza; and
the Knight Report;
9/9
Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina arrested by death squad
police and facing grave danger; also, we return to the wreckage
of the South, as FEMA’s chief is sacked for incompetency,
we’ll have a report from our emergency correspondent
Malik Rahim, who is spearheading a grassroots initiative to
return infrastructure, medical services and human rights to
the area; plus, a flood update from Mississippi; Cuba’s
response to the tragedy; a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina;
and Flashpoints en Español;
9/8
We’ll go back down South for an update on the situation
as well as to Houston for an update around the Astrodome and
in the city, we’ll also feature a collage of people
picking up the slack left by Bush and the feds and trying
to meet the needs of tens of thousands pushed out of their
homes; we’ll hear a brand-new poem by Palestinian-American
poet Suheir Hammad; and from exile, the Knight Report with
Robert Knight;
9/7
We’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government
has vetoed a crucial microtransmitter radio project for the
Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors
who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll
speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be
doing, re-establishing infrastructure in parts of flooded
New Orleans; plus, we’ll speak with Makani Themba-Nixon
of the Praxis Project on her view on the federal breakdown
and her call for a real investigation into the tragic abandonment
of black people in this country; sounds from a protest today
at UC Berkeley; and from exile, the Knight Report;
9/6
Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over
ten thousand, as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults
thousands of victims still stranded inside the Astro-Dome
- We'll have reports from New Orleans, Houston, and we’ll
hear eye-witness accounts from those just back from the hardest
hit areas: Also students protest Bush's racist response to
the flood victims: We’ll also feature a report from
Gaza where an Israeli tank opened fire on peaceful protesters:
and from exile the Knight Report with Robert Knight;
9/5
Today on a special Labor day edition of Flashpoints, we feature
voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica
and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people
in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the
Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all
fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush administration;
plus, a poem by Aurora Levins-Morales; and Daniel Ellsberg
speaks about war, peace and resistance;
9/2
The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded
Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground
in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks
about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US
Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines
from the region, and Flashpoints en Espanol, which will also
feature Eva Golinger;
9/1
We'll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge slaughter
massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US occupation;
we'll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should
be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we'll feature
an interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its
aftermath; and from exile in New York City, we'll have the
Knight Report;
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