Today on Flashpoints: Professor Roberto Rodriguez talks about the ethnic cleansing of Mexican studies in Tucson. Also, we’ll speak to an exile from Guatemala, who is working to save lives on the border, and explains why so many Guatemalans are willing to risk it all to leave their country.
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Today on Flashpoints, we feature an entire hour devoted to reports and analysis of the situation in Venezuela. First we’re joined by Flashpoints analyst for the Caribbean and Latin America, Jeanette Charles. Then we go to Caracas, Venezuela for an update on the situation on the ground with William Camacaro, a Senior Analyst with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs and a producer at our sister station WBAI in NY for the show La Voz Latina. Finally, we go to Canada for a conversation with Raul Burbano of Common Frontiers who was part of a large Canadian delegation that observed the last presidential elections in Venezuela. Mr. Urbano gives his answer to the question, were the elections fraudulent or were they free and fair?
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Today on Flashpoints: The Vice Chairman of Tohono O’odham Nation talks about what it means to live under occupation by US security forces. Also, indigenous communities in Texas fight back and organize against occupation and the destruction of borderlands in the Lonestar State. And a Palestinian activist exile from pccupied Palestine compares Israeli occupation in Palestine to US occupation of the borderlands
Today on Flashpoints: Sierra Club Executive Director for the borderlands, Dan Millis, talks about the destruction of wildlife at the border. He also talks about being tried for carrying water to the desert and leaving it for refugees so they don’t die of thirst when fleeing north. And we’ll speak to investigative journalist Todd Miller about the expanding US militarization of the US/Mexico border.
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Live From Tucson, Arizona Day 2!
Today on the show long-term civil right activist Isabel Garcia talks about the growing deadly violence perpetrated by various US security forces. Also well speak to Tohono Oodham and activist David Garcia about the ongoing devastation of Tribal lands and the environment along the US Mexico border
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Today on Flashpoints: We broadcast from Tuscon Arizona. Today we feature a discussion with ethnic studies professor, and human rights activist, Nolan Cabrera.
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Today on Flashpoints: We continue our special rebroadcast of our multi part series, The Battle For Public Education in the 21st Century. Today we feature episodes 4-6.
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Today on Flashpoints we continue our coverage of the teachers strike in LA with an interview with professor and educational policy analyst, Diane Ravitch. Later we’ll feature an encore broadcast of more from our education series, The Battle For Public Education in the 21st Century, with host and producer, Ken Yale.
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Today on Flashpoinrs: Will Pope Francis be forced to step down as a result of continuing revelations about his role in the cover-up of priest/child molestation in the US and around the world. Also Professor Isabel Nunez director of Purdues School of Education cheers on the striking teachers in Los Aneles and part three of our 15 part series, The Battle For Public Education in the 21st Century.
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Today on Flashpoints: We’re proud to present an encore broadcast of our multi part series, The Battle For Public Education in The 21st Century, with host Ken Yale, Produced by Ken Yale and the Flashpoints team. Today we feature Parts 1-3.
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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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