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Tuesday November 9th, 2010 0

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Flashpoints

flooded tent in Leogane. Photo from Ansel Herz

The Cholera scurge in Haiti expands to all parts of Port Au Prins: AsloWe revisit the tragedy of Kashmir: Will speak with Dr. Angana Chatterji, Co-convener, International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir, just back from the region: Also a crucial hearing for Mumia Abu Jamal in Philadelphia; we’ll get a live report from Dave Lindorff, who was in the hearing room, and we’ll also get an update on the people’s battle to Free Mumia Abu Jamal:

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Dave Lindorff:Killing time: An investigation of the Death-Row Case

Dr. Angana Chatterji: Co-convener, International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir and Professor, Department of Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies

Ansel Herz: Independent Reporter in Haiti

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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 0

Posted on November 02, 2010 by Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints: At the Tea Party: Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right… and Why We Should Take It Seriously, We’ll Speak to Laura Flanders About today’s elections and about her new anthology of essays on Sarah Palin and the tea party; Also a physician and a leading advocate of single payer health care says Obama’s patch-work health care reform package, ACTUALLY COST THE DEMOCRATS VOTES AND ENDANGERED FUTURE REFORM: And J.R. and the Block report sit down with the filmmaker, and producer of a new hard-hitting documentary on Death-Row Journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal.

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Laura Flanders: Sarah Palan and the Tea Party

Dr Quentin Young: Single Payer and the Midterms elections

JR and the Block report to talk to the Johanna Fernandez, the producer/ filmmaker of Justice on Trial, a new hard- hitting documentary on Death-Row Journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal:

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Thursday, October 7th, 2010 0

Posted on October 07, 2010 by Flashpoints

National civil rights groups call for an immediate national moratorium on foreclosures. We’ll Feature excerpts of a new Documentary on Foreclosures, Plunder, The Crime of Our Time by Filmmaker Danny Schechter: Also JR, the Block Report spend six hours with death-row journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal: And Students, Teachers and Workers walk out of Class and off their jobs to protest the cuts in Education across the state and the country.
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JR – Block Report Radio
Malcolm Shabazz

Danny Schechter: Plunder: The Crime of Our Time

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Thursday – September 23, 2010 0

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Flashpoints

Reporter Linn Washington aims a shot at the concrete slab durring the test to replicate conditions at the crime scene.

New evidence puts the lie to the states case against Mumia Abu Jamal. And, Robert Fisk’s speech from last night in Berkeley: “Lies, Misreporting and Catastrophe in the Middle East.”

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Dave Lindorff – This Can’t be Happening

Robert Fisk

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Thursday, May 6th, 2010 0

Posted on May 06, 2010 by Flashpoints

Olympia-Rafah Mural Project

Olympia-Rafah Mural Project

The Rachel Corrie foundation joins dozens of other activist organizations fighting against Israeli apartheid through the arts and self-expression, Cindy Corrie joins Susan Greene of the Break the Silence Mural Project and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance in the Flashpoints studio to talk about a massive mural in downtown Olympia, Washington; also, we’ll have special coverage of the Poor People’s March to Fulfill the Dream, the march that started in Louisiana is heading for New Orleans, we pick up the story in Memphis, Tennessee; JR and the Block Report speak to Holly Works, a protester still facing trumped-up felony charges around the Oscar Grant rebellions in Oakland last year; and a new commentary on Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant legislation by political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.

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Susan Greene, Breaking the Silence and Olympia-Rafah Mural Project

Cindy Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for Poor People’s Economic and Human Rights Campaign

Abel Francisco, marcher

JR with Holly Works

Mumia Abu Jamal, Prison Radio

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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 0

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Flashpoints

Dr. Michael Parenti

Dr. Michael Parenti

Renowned author and social critic Michael Parenti debates military historian Victor Hansen about the state of US imperialism and globalization; also, JR and the Block Report talk about Imam Luqman Abdullah, killed by Detroit police and the FBI in 2008; and political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal talks about the Tea Party movement in this country.

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Debate between Michael Parenti and Victor Hansen

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JR and the Block Report

Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and journalist

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Monday, April 26th, 2010 0

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Flashpoints

A Palestinian teenager sits outside a protest tent in Silwan, next to a site where Israeli settlers are excavating a tunnel. (Jonathan Cook, Electronic Intifada)

A Palestinian teenager sits outside a protest tent in Silwan, next to a site where Israeli settlers are excavating a tunnel. (Jonathan Cook, Electronic Intifada)

Rene Saucedo of the San Francisco Day Labor Center reports back from City Hall on a day of protest against Arizona’s racist, anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070; also, Israel plans to build more illegal settlement colonies in occupied East Jerusalem as Palestinians face violent repression by settlers and Israeli forces; we’ll have an in-depth discussion on the state of emergency facing Haitians three months after the devastating earthquake as relief and food runs out; and commentaries by death row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal.

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Rene Saucedo, Director, SF Day Labor Center

Zakaria Odeh, Director, Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem

Ryan Ikeda, filmmaker and high school teacher

Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner, journalist

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Monday, February 8th, 2010 2

Posted on February 08, 2010 by Flashpoints

Mumia Abu Jamal

Mumia Abu Jamal

Nearly a month after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still in need of basic life and death necessities, we’ll continue our on the ground reporting with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; also, investigating corporations that continue to finance the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine; plus, JR and the Block Report sit down with death row journalist Mumia abu Jamal, who was recently put on the fast track to the death house by the US Supreme Court; and we’ll hear from Pam Africa who is leading the international battle to free Mumia.

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Kevin Pina

Dalit Baum, Who Profits?

Mumia Abu Jamal

Pam Africa

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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 0

Posted on December 09, 2009 by Flashpoints
According to secret documents, The G-8 supports
climate policies that Jeopardize the entire African
Continent; We'll feature and in-depth interview with
the Sudanese Chairman of the G-77 about the secret
document and its potentially deadly impact on
hundreds of millions of Africans: we also speak to a
Kenyan food aid worker who helped lead a march at
the Climate Summit to protest the secret document.
We'll get a report from Honduras confirming fraud in 
the recent sham election: JR and the Block Report 
and extensive violence by the coup-government during
talk to Mumia Abu Jamal plus the Knight report.

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 0

Posted on November 05, 2009 by Flashpoints

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy

An in-depth interview with internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy, Roy is the author of a brand-new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. She speaks about the new book and the deterioration of real democracy around the world; also, we get an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, Award-winning novelist and essayist

Jeff Mackler, Director, National Campaign to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

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