Today on Flashpoints, we’ll have a special report on an upcoming symposium on the medical and ecological impacts of the multiple meltdowns at Fukushima. And we’ll also feature an update on the gun lobby and new proposals by the Obama Administration to limit the sales of assault weapons.
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Today on Flashpoints: Internet and free speech activist, Araon Swartz hangs himself, after prosecutors threaten him with a 35 year jail sentence for a relatively minor offense. Also, leaders in the Day Laborers Organizing Network speak out against the reappointment of Janet Napolitano. And we feature our regular weekly report with Nora Barrows Friedman and the electronic intifada.net
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