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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.

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Flashpoints 05-15-2012

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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Flashpoints 05-14-2012

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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Flashpoints 05-10-12

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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Flashpoints 05-09-2012

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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Flashpoints 05-08-2012

Bay Area green Activist and Obama outcast, Van
Jones, soke in a recent benefit for KPFA, Pacifica Radio.

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Flashpoints 05-07-2012

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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Flashpoints 05-03-2012

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 05-02-2012

Today on Flashpoints we devote the entire hour to May Day actions taking place in California and across the country. We’ll speak to Occupy activists about their relationship to labor and we’ll be joined by a number of key organizers for the migrant worker movement. We’ll also open the phones for those of you who are still out in the field marching or those who want to tell us about the activities you were involved in in the context of May Day.

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An Excerpt from a compelling speech by
Cutting-Edge Journalist, Jeremey Scahill, from the recent anti-drone
conference in Washington D.C.: also Civil Rights attoreny and Rapper,
Shahid Buttar on the dangers of terrorist plots: And we’ll talk with
two members of the staff of Small Press Distribution about the
imortance of independent publishers: SPD is currently the only
distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently
published literature.

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