FLASHPOINTS

Best of Flashpoints for October 28, 2016: Campaign for the Extreme Energy and Just Transition w/the Indigenous Environmental Network. Jacqueline Mosset on the perpetuation of racist, Native American stereotypes, and a report back from the water protectors at Standing Rock.

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Riki Ott

We speak with leading marine toxicologist Riki Ott about the BP oil gusher and its ongoing devastation; also, self-proclaimed zionists threaten a local activist and attack his outdoor business on Telegraph avenue in Berkeley; and we send Nora Barrows Friedman on her next ventures with lots of love and wishes of luck as she transitions away from Flashpoints.

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Guests:

Riki Ott, Author, former fisherwoman and marine toxicologist

Russell Bates, Berkeley activist and local businessman

According to several leading scientists, if BP’s plan fails to plug its as-yet uncontrollable offshore oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the hole in the ocean could be pumping vast quantities of thick, brown crude for months and even years to come; we’ll speak to our special correspondent on the scene and shrimperwoman, mom and local activist Kindra Arnesen; also, on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll report on how the key major Wall Street bandits are now suing each other and casting blame outside their own corporate headquarters; and sounds from the film The Yes Men Fix the World.

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Guests:

Larry Everest

Kindra Arnesen

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Sounds from the film The Yes Men Fix the World (Affiliates only)

Ed Rosenthal

Oil hits marshes

We’ll have a report from the Gulf of Mexico, where at this hour local residents are confronting officials from BP at a town meeting; also, we’ll have a special report on how staffers, tasked with overseeing the oil industry, were accepting bribes and payoffs; also, we’ll be joined by Greg Palast to talk about the oil and the potential collapses of the Greek, Thai, and Spanish economies.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, journalist

Diane Wilson, shrimperwoman and activist

Greg Palast, investigative journalist

Judi Bari

We’ll continue our expanded reporting on what appears to be one of the worst environmental accidents in history; also, we’ll hear from the late Judi Barri on the 20^th anniversary of the Oakland bombing of Judi and Darryl Cherney.
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Guests:

Larry Everest

Kindra Arnesson

La Mission

We’ll continue our frontline reporting on one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history, we’ll hear from our reporters who were out on the water, around the marsh and the bay where the oil is spilling into now by the millions of gallons; also, we’ll have in-depth analysis on the state visit by Mexican president Felipe Calderon; we’ll talk about San Francisco’s decision to kill the “secure communities” program that condones racial profiling and the arrest of migrant workers on mere suspicion; Miguel Molina interviews Benjamin Bratt and Peter Bratt about their new film, La Mission, filmed in San Francisco’s Mission District; and we’ll feature sounds from Crossing Arizona, the film that documents the negative impacts of current racist laws against migrant workers, their families and supporters.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, historian and author

Francisco Herrera, internationally known troubadour and founder of Caminante

Arnoldo Garcia, Program Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Evelina Molina, Flashpoints Correspondent

Norman Finkelstein - American Radical

BP oil smothers the shores of Louisiana’s coastline today, confirming people’s worst fears in this unprecedented oil spill that scientists say equals an Exxon Valdez-size spill every three days; we’ll speak to shrimper and local activist Kindra Arnesen; we’ll also hear from our special correspondent on the coast Larry Everest; we’ll have our regular weekly edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, who will report on the devastating impact the Wall Street meltdown has had on Calpirg, the largest pension fund in the country; and we broadcast excerpts of American Radical, a documentary film about historian and scholar Norman Finkelstein.

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Guests:

Kindra Arnesen, shrimper and local activist

Larry Everest, historian and author

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Aiyanna Jones

Judi Bari

We honor the spirit of Earth First founder and radical union organizer Judi Bari, on the 20^th anniversary of the car bombing that ultimately cost her her life; we’ll hear a Flashpoints interview with Judi, done right after she left the hospital from the bombing, and we’ll hear the voices of some of those who worked closely with her; and we’ll devote the show to the memory of Aiyanna Jones, the 7 year old girl who was bombed and then shot in the head by Detroit police on Sunday.

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Guests:

Amanda Bellerby, producer

Dennis Cunningham, lead attorney

Ben Rosenfeld, attorney

Karen Pickett, Earth First! And Coalition for Headwaters

Alicia Littletree – paralegal and friend of Judi Bari

Ramona Africa – MOVE

BP oil spill

We’ll continue our frontline reporting of the BP spill as the giant oil company continues to demonstrate that it’s much better at capping the flow of information than it is at stopping the oil from coming out; and for the rest of the hour, we’ll be joined by BBC reporter and best-selling author Greg Palast; we’ll talk with Greg about the red-shirt revolution in Thailand, and the collapse of the economic system in Greece.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, author and historian

Kindra Arnesen, shrimper and mother

Greg Palast, investigative journalist

Michael Parenti - God and His Demons

We continue our coverage of the massive underground gusher as BP demonstrates that it’s much better equipped to control the flow of information than the flow of oil; also, noted author and radical political analyst Michael Parenti talks about his new book God and His Demons and his recently released article Pedophiles and Popes—Doing the Vatican Shuffle, which deals with all sorts of theoretic misconduct and misbelief.

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Guests:

Larry Everest, Historian and Author

Richard Steiner, Alaska-based marine biologist

Michael Parenti, Author and social critic