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 12/4
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins re-election in
a landslide victory over the weekend, we’ll speak with
a reporter on the streets where people are still celebrating,
in Caracas; also, we’ll speak with John Ross about people’s
resistance movements in Mexico as Felipe Calderon assumes
the presidency; Israeli settlers shoot and kill a 6 year old
Palestinian boy in the West Bank as Israeli soldiers continue
sweeping raids and arrest campaigns, we’ll have a report
from occupied Bethlehem; plus, JR and the Block Report discuss
recent police terrorism in New York and across the country,
in a roundtable with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., M1 of dead
prez, and Wanda Jones; and the Knight Report;
12/1
Today on Flashpoints, The streets of Mexico City are
filled with opposition protests to the inauguration of Felipe
Calderon as president, we’ll speak with John Gibler
in the Zocalo; We’ll also hear from the street protests
in San Francisco, activists and organizers talk about sustained
solidarity with Latin American resistance movements; and Flashpoints
in Espanol focuses on the Mexican political situation;
11/30
George W Bush in Jordan meets with King Abdullah and Iraqi
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as hundreds of people die
across US-occupied Iraq and the UN Security Council votes
to extend the mandate of occupation forces, we'll speak with
our special correspondent Dahr Jamail about the latest news;
meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice travels back to occupied Palestine
to meet with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, Ali Abunimah
gives us his impressions of today's talks and the ongoing
ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; also, JR speaks with the
attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal on the latest developments in
his case; and Bay Area youth organize a basketball tournament
to support Mumia;
11/29
We spend the hour with two award-winning visionaries and historians,
Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk, lecturing together at MIT earlier
this year about Iraq, Palestine, Israel and expanding US hegemony
in the region;
11/28
Flashpoints pre-empted for an Annual Pacifica Archives National
Marathon Fund Drive - no audio, no program.
11/27
Hear excerpts from the hard-hitting documentary film Occupation
101, which presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts
and hidden truths surrounding the so-called Israeli-Palestinian
conflict; and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and
misconceptions. The film also details life under Israeli military
rule, the United States' role, and sheds light on the major
obstacles which stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace;
also, an interview with the filmmakers of Occupation 101;
11/24
Today on a special editon of Flashpoints, we bring you part
of the two part broadcast of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's
Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, with performances
by the authors and Alice Walker, Mos Def, Steve Earle, Aya
de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Luis Valdez and Nora el-Samahy, in
a special reading last week in Berkeley of some of the most
revolutionary voices of struggle and resistance throughout
US history;
11/23
Today on a special editon of Flashpoints, we bring you part
of the two part broadcast of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's
Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, with performances
by the authors and Alice Walker, Mos Def, Steve Earle, Aya
de Leon, Melanie DeMore, Luis Valdez and Nora el-Samahy, in
a special reading last week in Berkeley of some of the most
revolutionary voices of struggle and resistance throughout
US history;
11/22
An exclusive interview with JR of the Block Report,
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal,
speaking from death row; also, an in-depth look at the current
revolutionary struggles in Mexico; how South Dakota beat anti-choice
legislation; and a previously unaired interview with Dr. Mike
Alcoaay, who passed away last weekend after living with AIDS
for over 20 years;
11/21
A Lebanese cabinet minister is assassinated in Beirut,
we'll speak with our special correspondent Bilal el-Amine
about what happened and how George Bush is placing blame on
Syria and Iran; also, two Palestinians killed in Gaza city
by Israeli death squads and an Israeli soldier shoots and
kills a Palestinian boy near a checkpoint in the West Bank;
we'll also hear from a young Gazan teenager about what it's
like growing up under military occupation; an Indigenous Chamorro
group from Guam reports back from a delegation to the UN to
protest expanding US militarization on their island; and the
Knight Report;
11/20
We go back to Oaxaca, Mexico, where Federal Police
continued their violent attacks against protesters today,
we’ll speak with Jon Gibler reporting from the streets
in Oaxaca; also, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who many millions
of people believe is the rightful President of Mexico, prepares
for his inauguration; Israeli snipers in Gaza shoot two school
children inside their classroom, we’ll speak with Dr.
Mona el-Farra in Gaza City; a report-back from last weekend’s
massive protest outside the gates of the School of the Americas
in Fort Benning, Georgia; and a special Knight Report focuses
on the 27-count acquittal of Osama Awadallah;
11/17
We’ll have reports from Mexico, where presumed
paramilitary forces in Chiapas attacked a community of Zapatista
supporters, and in Oaxaca, the federal police continue to
lock down the city as protesters maintain their presence;
also, Francisco Herrera reports from the annual demonstration
outside the School of the Americas, dubbed the School of the
Assassins, in Fort Benning, Georgia; rethinking Thanksgiving
day with a young artist and performer; and Flashpoints en
Espanol;
11/16
We spend most of the hour taking a look at Venezuela
through the eyes of worker’s movements, the implementation
of social programs and the new anti-neoliberalist economic
policies under president Hugo Chavez; plus, news headlines
from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report;
11/15
Voices of a People’s History of the United States:
we’ll air performances by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove,
Alice Walker, Mos Def, Aya deLeon, Melanie DeMore, Steve Earle,
John Trudell, Nora el-Samahy, and Luis Valdez, in a special
reading last week in Berkeley of some of the most revolutionary
voices of struggle and resistance throughout US history; also,
presumed Mexican paramilitaries massacre women and children
in Chiapas, after the community warned the Federal government
of threats but authorities failed to act; Israeli troops invade
several West Bank cities, and a Palestinian homemade qassam
rocket kills one Israeli woman, we’ll have a news report
from Palestine; and the Knight Report;
11/14
A young, independent journalist continues his fight
from behind prison bars against a Federal Grand Jury investigation
for refusing to turn over his videotape of a San Francisco
demonstration. We’ll speak with the lawyer representing
Josh Wolf. Also, SF Bay Area congressman Tom Lantos is slated
to chair the International Relations Committee in the new
congress. We’ll have an in-depth look at his pro-war
and anti-Palestinian history. Author and activist Susan Nathan
talks about fighting Israeli apartheid from within. We’ll
hear from one of the protesters at Columbia University who
helped lead the student fight against the racist Minutemen
project; and the Knight Report;
11/13
The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution
condemning Israel for its obscene attacks against Palestinians
in the Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about
what that means for Palestinians under continuous siege; also,
Veteran for Peace and independent journalist Mike Ferner describes
life in US-occupied Iraq and stories he encountered that the
US corporate press willfully ignored; And the Block Report
focuses on the cases of political prisoners Hugo Pinell, Aaron
Patterson, Herman Wallace and Mumia abu-Jamal;
11/10
Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast to you from New
College of California on Valencia Street in the heart of San
Francisco’s Mission District. We’ll speak with
a former Nicaraguan Ambassador to the U.S. and a member of
the youth community on the recent elections in Nicaragua;
John Gibler joins us from Oaxaca, Mexico where Federal Police
continue to occupy the streets and protesters strategize the
next step; Also, a weekly roundup of news headlines from occupied
Palestine; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints
in Espanol;
11/9
Israel kills 85 Palestinians in eight days as the international
community remains silent; we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah
of the Electronic Intifada about the unraveling situation
in occupied Palestine. Also, we’ll speak to an activist
from Colombia whose village is one of dozens of so-called
Peace Communities in a country torn apart by paramilitaries
and guerrilla forces; an interview with filmmaker Danny Schechter
on his new documentary, In Debt we Trust; and the Knight Report;
11/8
Israeli occupation forces attack residents of Beit
Hanoun in Gaza with artillery shells, killing twenty Palestinians,
including 8 children, while they were sleeping inside their
homes, we’ll go to Gaza City and Bethlehem for full
reports; also, Donald Rumsfeld resigns but who is Robert Gates,
the man slated to take his place, and what is his history
with Iran-Contra? We’ll speak with Robert Parry about
that; plus, Pulitzer Prize winning author and visionary Alice
Walker and expert Iraq scholar Anthony Arnove talk about Voices
of a People’s History of the United States, and tomorrow
night’s performance based on the book in Berkeley; and
the Knight Report;
11/7
The Battle For Congress: Special Live Election Night
Broadcast instead of regular broadcast;
11/6
Israeli death squads in Gaza kill over fifty Palestinians
in six days, including two children this morning when a missile
struck their schoolbus, we’ll go to Gaza city for a
full report; also, an in-depth analysis with Michael Parenti
on tomorrow’s possibly rigged elections; how the Democrats
and Republicans alike continue to ignore public outcry against
Bush’s war and the attacks on our civil liberties; an
exclusive interview with a Marine who went AWOL after a tour
of duty in Iraq, and is preparing to turn himself in tomorrow
on election day as a gesture of protest against the war; and
the Knight Report;
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