FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints: An undocumented response to the State of the Union. We’ll have a special report on the culmination of two days of actions and civil disobedience in support of migrant rights and a humane meaningful immigration reform. Also Pentagon Papers activist Daniel Ellsberg gives a powerful speech in support of the freeing of military whistle blower, Bradley Manning

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Flashpoints 02-13-13

Today on Flashpoints, we speak with Pablo Alvarado, national director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, who’s in Washington D.C. with over 300 undocumented workers to lobby congress and the White House for passage of fair immigration reform. We’ll also speak with famed best selling author Luis Rodriguez, talking about his latest book Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community

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Flashpoints 02-12-13

Today On Flashpoints: Legal scholar and founder of the Center For Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, labels Obama’s drone assassination program, a crime against humanity. Also the pope steps down. We remember the pontiff’s role in the global cover up of child-molestation by catholic priests and bishops around the world. The US media double standard on uprisings In Syria and uprisings in the US. And later we’ll speak with Dr Helen Caldicott

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Flashpoints 02-11-13