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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll hear about a nationwide day of action against Trump’s kidnapping policies, featuring over 700 events, organized by the Families Belong Together Coalition. Also, more on the fallout at the Supreme Court in the wake of the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. We’ll report on a surprise meet and greet for the EPA chief scoundrel, Scott Pruitt. And the UFW announces a major victory.

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Flashpoints 06-28-18

Today on Flashpoints: Did Senator Warmer and former FBI Director, Comey, collude to shut down a thorough investigation into who really released the Clinton emails in order to fan the Russia Gate frenzy? Also, the multiple implications for today’s Supreme Court decision in the Janus case. And a look at Trump’s proposal for a new division of the military in space. 

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Flashpoints 06-27-18

Today on Flashpoints: We devote the entire hour to a powerful protest and vigil at the only San Francisco Bay Area ICE holding facility, located in Richmond, California. Flashpoints Senior Producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina, brought the protestors to tears by recounting his own childhood experience with “Operation Wetback”, when his father was ripped out of his arms and beaten unconscious.

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Flashpoints 06-26-18

Today on Flashpoints: Where are the children? We’ll hear the story of a women, whose two children were taken from her, based on the false pretenses that they would soon be returned. We’ll speak to a frontline immigration lawyer working on the Mexican on asylum cases from the Mexican side of the border. Well also be joined by Alex Mensing of Sin Fronteras, an activist doing refuge work at the border and here in San Francsico as well. Our own Francsico Herrera will join us from borderland: And we’ll get an indigenous perspective on the breaking up of families, the official mass kidnapping of brown kids, and the shredding of the political asylum program.

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Flashpoints 06-25-18

Today on Flashpoints: We report from Sacramento California, where the resistance is strong to Donald Trump. We spend most of the hour hearing highlights of a press conference and speaking with key leaders in this state. Also an encore broadcast of our recent interview with Code Pink founder, Medea Benjamin.  

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Flashpoints 06-21-18

Today on Flashpoints: Deep background on the US policies that have lead to the current crisis in immigration and migration at the US/Mexico border. Also Israel escalates its harassment of anti-Zionist anti-apartheid activists. Well examine the proposed anti-semitism awareness act being considered by congress now: And well replay yesterdays interview with Amy Juan on the attempted murder of a member of the Tohono Oodham tribe whose reservation is located on both sides of the US/Mexico border in Arizona 

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Flashpoints 06-20-18

Today on Flashpoints: Noted author and editor, Vijay Prashad on Kashmir and the assassination of his colleage, the noted editor and courageous Journalist, Shujaat Bukhari. Also well feature a special report on a Border Patrol agent who ran down on purpose a member of the Tohono Odham Tribe whose land straddles both sides of the US Mexico border. And well feature a commentary by noted radical author, Michael Parenti 

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Flashpoints 06-19-18

Today on Flashpoints: Nurses plan to march on ICE to protest the brutal splitting of families and the mass incarceration of undocumented children. Also, Greg Palast and a distinguished crew of vote protection activists threaten to sue Ohio and Kansas to prevent a massive purge of eligible voters. Food givers at Food not Bombs facing stepped up Harassment in Central California. And an international protest in support of Julian Assange planned for Tuesday 

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Flashpoints 06-18-18

Today on Flashpoints: We spend the entire hour on the meeting today between Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.

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Flashpoints 06-12-18