FLASHPOINTS

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Today on Flashpoints:Independent Report Greg Palast Launches His “Amazon to Arctic” investigation of BP, even as the Oil Giant claims to have finally capped it deadly oil gusher. Also We’ll have a report about continuing protests in El Paso in response to the recent killing of a 14 year old Mexican boy by the US border Patrol and Lyn Stewart gets another 8 years tacked on her sentence for speaking publicly about her case.

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Guests:

Ruben L Garcia: Annunciation House

Greg Palast: The Amazon to Arctic Investigation of BP

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Leonard Peltier

Native American spiritual leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole, we’ll have a special report; also, President Barack Obama vows to prevent undocumented people from getting medical care under his new reform; we’ll remember the prison murder at San Quentin of George Jackson, and what he really stood for; plus, Flashpoints en Espanol and headlines from Project Censored.

Guests:

Students from Project Censored

Evelyn Sanchez, Flashpoints’ Immigrant Rights expert

Lyn Foster, spiritual advisor to Peltier

Jimbo Simmons, AIM National Spokesperson

Luis Bato Telemontes, one of the original San Quentin 6 with George Jackson, member of ANSWER’s Prison Project

Miguel Perez with Evelyn Sanchez

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Mother's Day vigil at ICE detention facility, Oregon (courtesy of OregonSanctuary.org)

We’ll continue our live reports from the front lines of resistance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; also, we hear the personal story of an ICE kidnapping and the impact on an entire family; plus, we’ll continue our series on how ICE is misusing the Department of Motor Vehicles’ bureaus to seize immigrant’s cars; Flashpoints en Espanol has headlines for the region and will also focus on the abuse of the DMV by ICE; and Headlines from Project Censored.

Guests:

Project Censored

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Raphael Vasquez, Okily Ngubery and Sabrina Krauss

Molly Goss

Miguel Perez

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courtesy of the Graton Day Labor Center

We take an in-depth look at the Obama crackdown on immigrants’ rights; we’ll also hear from immigrants rights activists who are fighting back against the state’s draconian program of illegally impounding the cars of immigrant workers; AIM West director Tony Gonzales talks about the celebration of the first international Indigenous Rights Day this weekend; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

Guests:

Davin Cardenas, Graton Day Labor Center

Evelyn Sanchez, Flashpoints contributor and immigrant rights expert

Tony Gonzales, American Indian Movement West

Project Censored produces our Friday headlines

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Nasser al-Ghawei, Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem. Courtesy Active Stills

We’ll talk to a Palestinian victim of expanding Israeli ethnic cleansing in occupied East Jerusalem; also, another teacher murdered in Honduras after the funeral of a teacher shot to death last week by Honduran forces, we’ll have a live report from Tegucigalpa; we’ll return to Caracas, where the extreme right wing is attempting to use the example of Honduras to destabilize the Chavez government; plus, South Bronx activists celebrate a people’s victory; and the Knight Report.

Guests:

Sandra Cuffe, correspondent in Tegucigalpa

Eva Golinger, author

Maher Hanoun, resident in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood – www.standupforjerusalem.org

Jaisal Noor, educator and reporter in NYC with the New York Indypendent

Rebel Diaz