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Today on Flashpoints: Camping out in front of the FCC in the fight to protect net neutrality. Also, a democratic member of the FCC calls for a delay in the rules change, sighting a torrent of public opposition to the changes. And, over a hundred internet companies, including Goggle, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon, have also come out against the changes, in a public letter to the FCC. Cops lose in Santa Rosa as a jury is hung twice on trumped police charges that a key organizer for Andy’s Youth, Ramon Cairo, assaulted an officer.

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Flashpoints 05-08-14

Today on Flashpoints: The high court in Thailand orders the current Prime Minister to step down. We’ll have a live report from Bangkok on the latest there. We’ll also have a report on the upcoming United Nations forum on Indigenous issues. And author Nomi Prims talks the alliances that drive American power.

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Flashpoints 05-07-14

Today on Flashpoints we bring you sound from a powerful new documentary, “Ruben Salazar: Man In The Middle”, The life and times of the courageous frontline journalist  who was assassinated by deputies from Los Angeles.
And later, an interview with Richard Montoya, founder of Culture Clash who’s first feature length film premiered last weekend in Southern California.

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Flashpoints 05-06-14

Today on Flashpoints: American war-machine politics, the CIA, the Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan. Professor Peter Dale Scott’s new book flashes a bright light on the dark illicit world of lowly thugs and high-placed political and moneyed cabals. Also, Miguel Gavalin reminds us what Cinco De Mayo is all about

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Flashpoints05-05-14

Today on Flashpoints: We welcome home recently freed political Prisoner, Lynne Stewart: She will be in the studio with Jeff Mackler. Also joining us, is Long time anti-death penalty advocate, and noted columnist, Michael Kroll. Kroll watched his close friend, the late Robert Alton Harris brutally suffocate inside San Quentin’s Death House gas-chamber, after California re-instituted the death Penalty. And we’ll have a live report on mayday from the frontlines of the brown revolution, in Santa Rosa California

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Flashpoints 05-01-14