Today on Flashpoints we feature our weekly Palestine report with Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electric Intifada. Also part two of our whistleblower series with Michael McCrae, known as the 40 million dollar whistleblower.
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Today we feature the first of a two part series on the three day whistleblower summit on civil and human rights happening in Washington DC next week. This interview is with International civil rights and human rights activist Matthew Fogg who won a 1998 federal jury award of four million dollars for discrimination and reprisals he suffered in the US Marshalls serivce.
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Today on Flashpoints, a minor break through on the hunger strikes in Palestine, as Palestinians commemorate the 64th anniversary of the Nakba: the day that marks the initial displacement and dipossesion of Palestinians from their homeland. We’ll speak to a leading Palestinian activist about the nakba and today’s breaking news on the hunger strikes and the right to return. We’ll also be joined by Richard Falk, professor of international law emeritus, Princeton Universtiy and special reporter on occupied Palestinian territories for the U.N.
Fukushima melt down update with Dr. Karl Grossman. Carlos Montes, long time anti-war and Chicano activist still under attack by the Federal Government for his radical activites. Later another excerpt from Dr. Micio Kaku’s speech given for a KPFA benefit.
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Our weekly indepth report on Occupied Palestine
with Nora Barrows Friedman and the Electronic Intifadi.net: And We
continue our series based on the recent Anti- Drone Summit, held in
Washington D.C. And organized by Code Pink: Today we hear the panel
entitled: Victims, Compensation and Accountability, moderated byDavid
Cortright, who teaches peace studies and nonviolent social change at
the University of Notre Dame
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Today on Falshpoints, Fukushima reactor 4 still threatens the world as we know. We’ll spend the hour with Dr. Micio Kaku.
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Radical Sports Writer, Dave Zirin stands up
against Israeli Sports Apartheid in Palestine: Also Barbara Lubin with
an update on the battle to bring pure water the people of Gaza: And
we’ll have a follow up on the fight against the racist policy of Stop
and Frisk in New York City:
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Bay Area green Activist and Obama outcast, Van
Jones, soke in a recent benefit for KPFA, Pacifica Radio.
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Occupy Arrests reports that more than 7100
people were arrested on May Day in 114 cities: Also Nora Barrows
Friedman returns with her frontline reports on Occupied Palestine, in
conjuncation with the Electronic Intifada dot net:And we’ll bring you
more excerpts from the recent Drone conference hosted by Medea
Benjamin and Code Pink in Washington D.C.: Today’s panel from the
Drone Summit: Domestic Drones, Surveillance and Privacy Concerns.
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We speak with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink about the Drone Summit Conference that took place on April 28th. We’ll play excerpts from that conference
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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