Today on Flashpoints we play a speech given this earlier this week by author and investigative reporter Greg Palast. He was in Berkeley on Monday the 21st as a part of his book tour for Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How To Steal An Election In 9 Easy Steps.
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Today on Flashpoints we celebrate San Francisco’s new poet laureate Alejandro Murguia, the first Chicano Latino to be appointed to the position. Later we play a excerpt of a broadcast from last Friday, live at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco.
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Today on Flashpoints, we spend the entire hour listening to a recent speech by radical education critic and national award winning book author Jonathan Kozol.
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Today on Flashpoints, Greg Palast is in tow with a very timely new book, “Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How To Steal An Election In 9 Easy Steps”. Also tonight in Los Angeles, hundreds of young immigrants will apply for the deferred action program. We’ll hear about the fears and hopes from an activist in the middle of their struggle. Finally Nora Barrows-Friedman and the Electronic Intfada with their weekly podcast on Occupied Palestine.
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Today we broadcast live from the Mission Cultural Cener in San Francisco.
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Today On Flashpoints: What the Chicago Teachers Really Won. Also we continue to tag along on the 18 city “Journey for Justice”, demanding a moratorium on public school closures. They arrived in the Capital yesterday, and they’re protesting in front of the Department of Education Today. A Code-Pink Activist reports back on her arrest during recent OCW actions in NYC. And we’ll hear about A Flash mob meditation for peace from Dancing Without Borders
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Today on Flashpoints: Tucson Attorney and Civil Rights Leader, Isabel Garcia, speaks out against the decision by a Federal Judge to lift the injunction against the worst aspects of the highly punitive, racial profiling law, SB1070. Also students, teachers, and parents from 18 cities converge on Washington D.C, in what they are calling a Journey for Justice in defense of Public Education. We’ll speak to an activist/student leader, under attack for fighting the good fight for public education: and the fight against the Tar Sands Pipe Line continues a pace. Also the Biggz beat is back, just in time for the Gay/la opening of the Football Season.
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Today on Flashpoints: Greg Palalst on the election protection trail, from Wisconsin to Wall Street, and what are the Coke Brothers up to now. Also, Flashpoints funny man and Occupy Wall Street Activist, Randy Credico, acquitted on trumped-up charges stemming from last year’s OCW actions: And fighting privatization and the corporate take over of Santa Monica Junior College
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Today on Flashpoints: The Middle East on Fire: We’ll feature an in depth conversation with UC Berkeley Lecturer, Dr Hatem Bazian, on the future of Syria, Palestine, and the grave implications of a war with Iran. Also we’ll have our weekly report on occupied Palestine with Nora Barrows Friedman and the Electronic Intifada.
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Today on Flashpoints: A Speak-out and mini Teach-in on how the GOP intends to steal the 2012 election. Also the Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans.
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