The Flashpoints Election Protection
Section co-hosted by Best Selling Author and Investigative Reporter,
Greg Palast. This episode also features actress and activist, Rosario Dawson
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Today on Flashpoints: Feeding The World. We celebrate the latest book from Vandana Shiva. Also our regular weekly Flashpoints Election Protection Section with Greg Palast.
Today on Flashpoints: Highlights from Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders’ rally in Sacramento, California. Also, a new speech from Ilan Pappe from a recent event by the Middle East Children Alliance.
Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire hour to a special broadcast focusing on Haiti. We’ll be joined by political analyst, Frantz Jerome, in Florida. Senior Producer Kevin Pina is here in studio for an update on the situation there. Then, we’ll be joined by Yvon Kernizan in Port au Prince, and members of a recent delegation to Haiti, organized by the Marin based task force on the Americas.
Today on Flashpoints: A look at how various dictators, drug traffickers and other corporate movers and shakers, stole 12 Trillion from the world’s poorest countries and held it off shore.
Today on Flashpoints: The huger-striking #Frisco5 in their 14th day,
continue to put their lives on the line to stop police murders of
black and brown people in San Francisco. we’ll speak to noted playwright-performer and anti-gentrification activist, Paul Flores, who performed his play, “Your Gonna Cry”, for the hunger strikers in front of Mission Police Headquarters today. Also, our weekly election
protection bulletin with investigative reporter, Greg Palast. And
we’ll feature an encore broadcast of our Remembrance of the late poet
and Jesuit activist, Reverend Daniel Berrigan.
Today on Flashpoints: The classified ’28 pages’ from the 9/11 report:
A diversion from real US-Saudi issues. Also anti-police brutality hunger-strikers and their supporters hold a speak out in front of police headquarters in San Francisco
Today on Flashpoints: Donald Trumps sneaks into and out of the Bay Area as hundreds of protestors were waiting. Also, Bernie supporters choose their delegates in San Francisco to go to National Democratic Convention. Finally, remembering legendary peace activist, playwright, religious war resister, Father Daniel Berrigan.
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