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 3/31
Today, we feature the voices of a growing student rebellion
protesting the attempts by Congress to criminalize millions
of undocumented immigrants; we’ll hear from students,
their teachers, immigrants right activists and leaders in
this movement; joining the dialogue on the 79th anniversary
of the birth of Cesar Chavez will be Dolores Huerta, co-founder
of the United Farmworkers and many others involved in the
uprising; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español;
3/30
Author, scholar and 9-11 investigator David Ray Griffin tears
the lid off the official story of the attack on the Twin Towers;
plus, Flashpoints special correspondent Lyn Duff interviews
a Haitian survivor of politically motivated mass rape as the
international community fails to respond;
3/29
We’ll hear from high school student organizers who walked
out of class today in protest against the anti-imigration
legislation now before the US Senate; also, will the Supreme
Court support the administration’s attempt to prosecute
so-called terrorists in military tribunals? After his Kadima
party win, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterates
the call for a Jewish majority state with permanent apartheid
borders; part two of our interview with Bobby Lavery and Terry
Kirby from the North of Ireland on global resistance to imperialist
occupation; and the Knight Report;
3/28
Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London reports from
Kurdistan on the unraveling into civil war in US-occupied
Iraq; also, Israelis vote for a new parliamentary government
as occupation policies expand on the ground in the West Bank
and Gaza; excerpts from a talk by Flashpoints special correspondent
Dahr Jamail and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill on
the story that the corporate media won’t tell and the
bi-partisan nature of empire in this country; and the Knight
Report;
3/27
Nearly a million protesters hit the streets of Los Angeles
to stop the war on immigrants,we’ll have a report from
Miguel Molina from the massive protest; also, health care
under occupation: how Palestinian refugees are battling the
health effects of Israel’s illegal policies; an inteview
the director of a stunning new documentary on war resistance
from within the military; and the Knight Report;
3/24
We’ll feature a special interview with radical MC and
hip hop visionary M-1 from Dead Prez; also, Rene Saucedo joins
us on her fourth day of hunger striking for immigrant rights;
a report from the Zapatista’s Other Campaign; headlines
from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
3/23
Cindy Sheehan speaks out against Bush’s war, former
CIA officer Ray McGovern outlines Bush’s program of
torture and subversion, and also talks about the real reasons
Bush went to war: to protect Israel; also, Larry Everest talks
about the real politics behind the war; Flashpoints special
correspondent Lyn Duff talks about children’s prisons
in Haiti; and the Knight Report;
3/22
Iraqi women talk speak out against the destruction of their
country; also, Associated Press erases footage of Israeli
soldiers shooting a teenager without provocation in Palestine
and we’ll talk about how they refusedto answer questions
about it; the unexpected death of Marco Antonio Firebaugh,
one of the leaders of the Latino caucus in the prime of his
life; and the Knight Report;
3/21
An extended interview with Dr. Hans von Sponeck, the former
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and former head
of the Iraq “Oil for Food” program; also two-time
Nobel Prize nominee Kathy Kelly speaks out against the war;
we'll hear about a national protest and hunger strike against
the crackdown on immigrants; and the Knight Report;
3/20
Israeli snipers murder a 10 year old Palestinian girl on a
car ride near Jenin as people run out of bread in Gaza, we’ll
get a special report from Laila el-Haddad; also, US occupation
forces execute an entire Iraqi family, including a 75 year
old woman and a 6 month old infant; Hugo Chavez takes on the
US, accusing Bush of genocidal policies in the Middle East;
an interview with Native American youth leader Evon Peter
about the upcoming march for Sacred Sites and Human Rights
in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the continued attempts by the Bush
administration to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge; and the Knight Report;
3/17
Marking the third anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion
and occupation of Iraq, hundreds of thousands will gather
around the country to protest unending war; we’ll be
joined by Malik Rahim, tomorrow’s keynote speaker in
San Francisco and the founder of Common Ground relief, fighting
the ethnic cleansers in New Orleans; plus, American Indian
Movement co-founder Vernon Belacourt, who will be offering
the opening blessing at tomorrow’s march; Students dreaming
of higher education, organizing in support of the DREAM Act;
headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español;
3/16
We continue our drumbeat coverage of the unraveling situation
in occupied Palestine following Tuesday's siege by Israeli
forces on a Jericho prison; plus three years go by after the
murder of Rachel Corrie in Gaza by an Israeli-modified Caterpillar
bulldozer, and still no one is held accountable; also the
Block Report features an interview with Black Panther Richard
Brown on the continued attacks against the party; part one
of a series on the fight for Irish independence; and the Knight
Report;
3/15
Renowned Israeli journalist and occupation expert Amira Hass
speaks about yesterday’s seige by Israeli forces on
the Jericho Prison and the expanding policies on the ground
in Palestine; also, Flashpoints’ special correspondent
Kevin Pina with an update on Haiti as theParliamentary elections
and Rene Preval’s inaguration are postponed again; a
call to action against war this Saturday in San Francisco
and around the country; and the Knight Report;
3/14
Israeli occupation forces storm the Jericho Prison in the
West Bank, minutes after British and US administrators of
the prison abandon responsibility, we’ll feature in-depth
analysis from the ground in Palestine and with Ali Abunimah
in Belfast; plus, International Solidarity Movement co-founder
Huwaida Arraf on strategies for activism in Palestine; and
the Knight Report;
3/13
Jeremy Scahill talks about the death of Slobodan Milosevic
and US war crimes in the bombing of the former Yugoslavia;
also, a look at the environmental costs of war and militarism;
Flashpoints producers join a march from Tijuana to San Francisco
to protest the war in Iraq and the impact it’s having
on immigrants in the US; and the Knight Report;
3/10
Over 100,000 people gather in Chicago to protest continued
attacks on immigrant workers and their supporters; also, does
God love war? We’ll take a look at faith and fanaticism
with Hamza Yusuf and Chris Hedges; we report on the upcoming
immigrant rights march from Tijuana to San Francisco; headlines
from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol;
3/9
Over 80 people incinerated inside a US-contracted garment
factory in Bangladesh; also, the Pastor of the Galilee Baptist
Church in rural Alabama talks about the capture of three white
kids who burned down the community’s 100-year old church;
high school students in Oakland raise money to buy geiger
counters for high schoolers in Chernobyl, 20 years after the
worst nuclear accident in history; and the Knight Report;
3/8
Today on a special International Women’s Day edition
of Flashpoints, we feature an in-depth interview on renewed
nuclear danger with Dr. Helen Caldicott; plus, we’ll
hear the words of poet, educator, visionary and witness June
Jordan from a 1991 antiwar speech; also, focusing on Palestinian
women’s issues by students of the Ibdaa Cultural Center
media project in the occupied West Bank; and the Knight Report;
3/7
Israeli drones fire missiles into Gaza, in a policy of targeted
assassination against Palestinians, including resistance leaders
and children; we’ll discuss how divestment from Israeli
companies can stop the occupation policies in Palestine; also,
women lose their right to choose in South Dakota; we’ll
feature a report on academic freedoms after September 11th;
plus, on Earth Matters, a look at the escalation of the FBI's
war on domestic dissent and free speech; and the Knight Report;
3/6
25 years after the Bhopal chemical disaster and the dying
continues as thekillers live free and in luxury; also, the
ethnic cleansing of Black communities in America, today we’ll
focus in on the expanding city-supported corporate raid in
the BayView-Hunter’s Point neighborhoods of San Francisco,
as we continue a special Flashpoints investigation series;
and the Knight Report;
3/3
Special Friday edition of Flashpoints en Espanol. We continue
our collaboration with New College in the heart of the San
Francisco's Mission District. Today we will feature Bhopal
survivors who burned Bush in effigy to protest his visit and
the inclusion of Dow Chemical executives in his entourage.
Also an update on the Other Campaign by the Zapatistas. The
National Day Labor Network establishes its historic run and
kicks it off by speaking up against immigrant rights violations.
Headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol;
3/2
Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. interviews Mumia Abu Jamal about
the new CoIntelPro in an exclusive interview for the BayView
newspaper and the Block Report on Flashpoints; also, we'll
speak with Fred Hampton, Jr. about the fight going on over
naming a street after his father, who was murdered in bed
by the Chicago police; plus, Israel brings down its iron fist
in a new intensification of occupation - Gaza style; and Earth
Matters will feature a report on the escalation of the FBI's
war on domestic dissent and free speech; and, of course, the
Knight Report;
3/1
Bush puts on his hat as a weapons salesman for his whirlwind
trip to India, we’ll feature an open letter to George
W Bush by Anuradha Mittal; plus, over 40 Palestinian children
arrested in the Bethlehem area over the past three weeks,
we’ll feature a report on the brutal conditions they
face in Israeli prisons, including severe psychological torture;
also, Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional
Rights, makes the case for impeachment in a book just published
by CCR; and the Knight Report;
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