Today on Flashpoints: The Justice Department and the FBI launches a criminal probe in the police killing of a disturbed homeless man in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Also, we’ll feature a Flashpoints mini-documentary on the recent San Francisco Police killing of 28 year old Latino Buddhist, Alejandro Nieto
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We broadcast live from the Sebastopol community cultral center. Our guests include the Mayor of Sebastopol, the first gay and Latino mayor of the city. Also, we’ll meet the Sebastopol chief of police, who is teaching a driver’s training course for undocumented immigrants. We’ll have an update on the battle for justice for Andy Lopez: And we will have an update on the police killing of 28 year old Alehendro Nieto last Friday night.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have an extended interview with writer, actor, director, Diego Luna about his new film “Cesar Chavez”, a bio pic on the legendary founder of the United Farm workers. Obama meets with Saudi’s in the middle east: Noted Beirut–based author and Scholar and Vijay Prashad gives us the back story on why. And we’ll feature our regular report from Buzz Flash at Truth Out, on how big oil is wasting the US’s fresh water supply
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Today on Flashpoints: 25 years after the Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker Disaster: We’ll speak to journalist Greg Palast about the special role BP played in the disaster. Also, Police in San Francisco’s Mission District gun down 28 year old Alejandro Nieto and the community is outraged. And we’ll speak to the writer and the starring actor in “Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo”, about a former Salvadorean gang member trying to put his life back together. Info on this play at http://www.sfiaf.org/placas_2014
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Today on Flashpoints: Israeli Zionists, and their US counterparts, lash out against the BDS boycott movement. We’ll speak to noted law professor and international law expert, Majorie Cohn, about the attacks on the BDS movement. And we’ll feature our regularly weekly broadcast of the from Nora Barrow Friedman and the Electronic Intifada
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Today on Flashpoints: We broadcast live from the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district. We’ll hear from a leading anti-gentrification activist. We’ll also have an update on the Andy Lopez case. Later, we’ll get a report back from the students at SF City College who were beaten and pepper sprayed by San Francisco’s gang bangers, the SFPD.
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Today on Flashpoints: Warrior for the Animals: Native American Activist, Rod Coronado, speaks about his battle to protect wolves and other predators from extinction. Vermonters pushing for a public banking system. And we’ll have a special report from Moscow, Idaho on grass roots resistance to the Tar Sands Pipe Line
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Today on Flashpoints: We continue our investigation into Lyme disease as we interview a foremost researcher in the field. And we’re proud to feature an in depth interview with noted Israeli author and anti Zionist activist Ilan Pappe.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll taker a look at the role of the national endowment for democracy is playing in the Ukraine crisis. And we’ll return to the the battle to protect Jeju Island from a massive US inspired military base between the two Koreas.
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Today on Flashpoints: The corporate press becomes the US state department’s flack in the Ukraine. Also, Indigenous communities from all over California gather in Sacramento to protest the Governor’s plan for expanded fracking. We’ll have a report on a new rolling fast by mothers standing against the deportation of thousands of undocumented workers and their families
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Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Through original reports and some of the key investigative reporters of our time, Flashpoints goes to the frontlines and to the core of the stories in the areas of government and corporate criminality, human rights, and economic justice. From Baghdad to the US-Mexico border, Palestine to San Francisco, Port-au-Prince to Washington DC, Flashpoints monitors the centers of power as an uncensored platform of independent media.
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