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August 31, 2010 by
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Today on Flashpoints: Rapper Activist and Philosopher, Immortal Technique in a Moving exchange with at-risk teens and community activists in East Oakland, with an introduction and convocation by Flashpoints/Flashpoints in Espanol producer and co-host, Miguel Gavilan Molina
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August 30, 2010 by
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Malik Rahim and Sakura Kone - New Orleans - 2008 ©Charles Silver
We continue our Special Coverage of New Orleans: Five Years after Katrina, and we continue our five-year dialogue with Common Ground Founder, Malik Raheim. And, the head of Mississippi’s First Responders arrested while protesting her Governor’s phony clean up plan.
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Malik Rahim: Common Ground
Linda St. Martin
Monique Harden – Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
Janine Jackson – ‘Spotlight’ on Police Violence Fails to Illuminate

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August 27, 2010 by
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Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six by Jordan Flaherty
We bring our focus to New Orleans, 5 years after hurricane Katrina powerfully ripped up much of the city and destroyed the levees, devastating the entire community; worst hit were the poor and Black communities, more because of governmental negligence than anything else; we’ll speak with community activists and organizers who have been struggling to reconstruct the city on a grassroots level; also, we’ll speak to New Orleans-based investigative journalist and author Jordan Flaherty about his experiences during Katrina and the more recent re-emergence of cultural growth in New Orleans.
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Jordan Flaherty, Investigative Reporter, Author and Editor of Left Turn Magazine, and featured speaker in the Community and Resistance Tour
Thom Pepper, Director of Operations for Common Ground
Viola Washington, Organizer with Welfare Organization
Jenga Mwenda, Founder of the Backyard Gardener’s network in the Lower 9th Ward

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Posted on
August 26, 2010 by
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John Gibler on the latest cartel violence in Mexico. And, the uphill battle to build an orphanage in Afghanistan.
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John Gibler – Independent journalist and author reporting from Mexico
Shamsia Razaqi

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August 25, 2010 by
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Today, Greg Palast on New Orleans – Five Years after Katrina, and Still Drowning. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts takes Community Business on the Road; we’ll speak with her in Montana about what’s happening economically out in the heartlands. Kathy Kelly talks about the non-end of the endless war in Iraq. And we’ll hear about a troubling new public TV series, In Their Boots, about the treatment and neglect of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, once they get back into the states.
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Catherinbe Austin Fitts
Greg Palast
Kathy Kelly
Richard Ray Perez – In Their Boots

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August 24, 2010 by
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All five participants in the Fort Hood Disobeys blockade action. From left to right: Iraq Vets Bobby Whittenberg-James and Crystal Colon, Jeff Grant, Military Spouse Cynthia Thomas and Afghanistan Vet Matthis Chiroux.
A Group by the name of “Right-Wing Extreme” vows to provide security for a Florida Ministry that plans to burn the Koran inside their Church on 9/11/2010. Also, Big Farms Bad Eggs: how the consolidation of food production leads to dangerous disease out-breaks, like the current salmonella scare plaguing the country from coast to coast. And a report from Mississippi on what’s happening behind the scenes there: We speak to the head of first responders and the state director of the Sierra Club about their meeting today with the Governor and BP Pay-Czar Ken Feinberg.
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Matthis Chiroux – Afghan War Vet and War Resister, Fort Hood Disobeys
Patty Lovera – Food and Water Watch
Linda St. Martin – Director of First Responders in Mississippi
Louie Miller – Mississippi State Director of The Sierra Club
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada
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August 23, 2010 by
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
Is Wikileaks founder the butt of a US disinformation campaign?; Rapper/musician Wyclef Jean forbidden from Running for President in Haiti; Rapper Immortal Technique on SB1070; and comedian-turned-political run out of the Democratic primary ticket by Schumer.
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Immortal Technique
Ray McGovern
Randy Credico
Kevin Pina

Tags: Haiti, SB1070, Wikileaks
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August 20, 2010 by
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Ruben Salazar Portrait by Rupert Garcia
Today on Flashpoints We remember the life and times of Front-line Reporter, Ruben Salazar, gunned down 40 years ago by L.A. County Sheriffs: Also we’ll get an update on the move to stop the unfair seizure of undocumented worker’s vehicles: And we’ll get a report from the National Day Labor Conference in Los Angles on what comes next in the struggle for immigrant worker rights:
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Christina Zapata
Davin Cardenas, National Board member of NDLON and organizer in California
Raquel Gomez
Ron Lopez

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August 19, 2010 by
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The "Media Pornography" Described by Eva Golinger
We feature a major breaking story on the direct business connections between Trans Ocean and the legendary Burmese heroine trafficking family of Lo Sing Han and his son, Stephen Law; also, Eva Golinger reports from Venezuela on a story she is labeling mass “media pornography.”
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Thomas Maung Shwe, Reporter for Mizzima News Service speaking from Chiang Mai
Eva Golinger, Investigative News and author of the Chavez Code

Tags: Gulf Gusher, Heroine, Trans Ocean, Venezuela
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Posted on
August 18, 2010 by
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The Proposed Site of Cordoba House, Blocks Away from 'Ground Zero'
Legendary EPA whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman talks about a new report on the BP gusher that fundamentally contradicts US government claims that most of the oil has disappeared; also, Ali Abunimah takes on the Ground Zero mosque controversy; and our regular weekly visit with Catherine Austin-Fitts on Community Business.
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Ali Abunimah, Co-Founder of the Electronic Intifada
Catherine Austin-Fitts, Solari Founder and Community Business Contributor
Hugh Kaufman, EPA Whistle-Blower

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