Today on Flashpoints: We feature an amazing new speech given just last night in Berkeley by journalist, activist, and political commentator, Phyllis Bennis
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature a frontline interview with Palestinian community organizer and amnesty international prisoner of conscious, Bassem Tamimi.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll have a special report from Delano California as the United Farm Workers celebrate the 50th anniversary of the grape strike, which gave rise to the UFW. Also, we feature an excerpt of the documentary film “Cesar’s Last Fast”.
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Today on Flashpoints: We are joined live in studio with San Francisco Sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi. We’ll talk with the left leaning Sheriff about San Francisco as a sanctuary city, his revolutionary work around early prison release and creating support networks for ex offenders who are really trying to live an honest life. We’ll also speak with author Jorge Cervantes about his Cannabis Encyclopedia.
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Today on Flashpoints: We explore the secret government of the United States with noted investigative reporter, David Talbot and professor, author, investigative historian, Peter Dale Scoot. Also we continue our drum-beat coverage of the battle for a special memorial in San Francisco, recognizing the suffering caused by the program of forced mass rape of enslaved young Korean woman known as the “Comfort Woman” during the so-called Korean war
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Today on Flashpoints: The American Indian Movement and other indigenous group hold a press conference at the UN in New York to protest the pope’s decision to canonize Indian mass murderer Junipero Sera. Also, we play more excerpts from a recent speech by Chris Hedges
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Today on Flashpoints: US supported military and para-military death squads continue their deadly crackdown on grassroots activists in the Philippines. We’ll feature a special report from Mindanao in the Philippines. Also we celebrate Mexican Independence day with El Grito. And we’ll feature a powerful excerpt from a new speech by Max Blumenthal on the continuing ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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Today on Flashpoints: We speak with the president of the United Farm-Workers, as the union prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of grape strike, which gave rise to the UFW. Also a powerful new speech by activist and Pulitzer winning author Chris Hedges
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature an encore broadcast remembering the September 11th /1973 US overthrow of the democratically elected government of Allende in Chile and the September 11, 2001 leveling of the Twin Towers. We’ll spend the entire hour with noted Poet, Martin Espada remembering both events in poetry
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Today on Flashpoints: Will the justice department finally crack down on wall street’s corporate vampires? Also, an in depth update on the refugee crisis in Europe. And we’ll take a look at the very serious problem of prostitution in Korea
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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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