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The morgue has been largely cleared of corpses. But one remains. Without effective aid, more will come. (Sharif Abdel-Koddous, Democracy Now)

Bay Area-based civil rights attorney Walter Riley reports back from his days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during and after the earthquake hit; also, we’ll hear from Ira Kurzban, former special counsel to Haiti under President Aristide; and an in-depth interview with cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza.

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Walter Riley

Ira Kurzban

Joe Sacco

Helicopter flying over Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Francois Mori/AP

We’ll have a frontline report from on the ground in Haiti, where tens of thousands of people have died in a massive earthquake; we’ll also talk about the politics behind relief and hear from Pierre Labossiere about various actions to support the people of Haiti; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Jamal Jumaa released from Israeli detention, he talks about his month in jail, enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture and his perseverance to keep the anti-apartheid movement going; Bekah Wolf talks about expanding Israeli settler attacks in West Bank villages; and cartoonist reporter Joe Sacco talks about the focus story of his book, Footnotes in Gaza.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina, Haiti Action

Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Emergency Relief Fund

Ansel Herz, Narco News

Jamal Jumaa, Stop the Wall

Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project

Joe Sacco, reporter and cartoonist

Joe Sacco

Earthquake in Haiti - from Radio Tele Ginen

The poverty-stricken nation of Haiti was rocked today by a massive earthquake that exceeded 7.0 on the richter scale; a major hospital, the presidential palace and many other buildings were damaged; we’ll have a special report on the devastation; also, ten Palestinians killed in Gaza in two weeks by Israeli airstrikes and tank fire, we’ll go to Gaza City for a full report; and a year after the police murder of Oscar Grant, protesters face felony charges for their street response to the close-range killing.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Pierre Labossiere

Farah Juste

Dr. Haidar Eid, professor of Culture Studies at Al-Aqsa University, Steering committee member of PACBI, One Democratic State Group, and Gaza Freedom March

JR and the Block Report

Protesting Torture

Obama breaks his campaign promise to close the US Torture Center at Guantanamo Bay;  anti-torture protesters hold him accountable in Washington D.C. ; Meanwhile, the man who wrote the memos justifying the wide ranging use of torture under the Bush administration, John Yoo, starts teaching again, but exactly where is being kept a secret by Officials at the University of California in Berkeley; And Ali Abumimah speaks with us from Amman, Jordan about two weeks of protest in Cairo against Israeli Apartheid.

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Stephanie Tang, World Can't Wait
Kevin Pina, Haiti Action
Ali Abinumah, Electronic Intifada
Frida Berrigan, Witness Against Torture

In Cairo, plainclothes government thugs clash with demonstrators protesting Israel's assault on Gaza. (Photo © 2009 Mohamed Boraie)

Sam Husseini reports from Amman, Jordan, on ten days of protests in Cairo; also, Catherine Austin Fitts returns with Community Business, we’ll take a look at the year that just passed and what’s up ahead economically; and Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina, just back from Haiti, joins us in the studio for an update.

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Guests:

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

Sam Husseini, Institute for Public Accuracy

...from Footnotes in Gaza (Joe Sacco)

A year of corruption, privatization and violence in US-occupied Iraq, we’ll get a full report from our correspondent Ahmed Habib; also, we continue our speak-out from Cairo and hear why Holocaust survivor and hunger striker Hedy Epstein refused to get on the bus to Gaza today; and award-winning cartoonist and reporter Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza, talks about his new book and the story of two massacres in 1956 that still echo throughout the Gaza strip.

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Guests:

Ahmed Habib, journalist and spoken word artist

Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor and Gaza Freedom March delegate

Joe Sacco, award-winning cartoonist/reporter, author of Footnotes in Gaza

Gaza Freedom March

Voices from Cairo as over 1500 people gather for a Gaza Freedom March; also, legendary comedian, satirist and lead writer for Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney live in the studio with JR and the Block Report.

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Guests:

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Dr. Mona al-Farra, physician and director of Gaza Projects with Middle East Children’s Alliance

Hedy Epstein, Gaza Freedom March delegate

Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada

Paul Mooney, legendary comedian

Dennis Brutus

Our special correspondent in the occupied West Bank, Jamal Juma, jailed by Israel for his nonviolent activism; also, a Holocaust survivor goes on hunger strike in protest to Egypt’s lockout of the Gaza Freedom March, we’ll also speak to Barbara Lubin in Cairo; plus, Andres Conteris reports on the upsurge of death squad violence under the coup regime in Honduras; we remember noted South African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Hindi Mesleh, anti-apartheid wall activist and organizer with Stop the Wall Campaign

Hedy Epstein, peace activist and Holocaust survivor

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Excerpts from an interview in 2007 with Dennis Brutus

Israeli attacks on Gaza

Holiday Special, Part 3:

Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast part three of our three part series on the massive US/Israeli carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip, A year ago: During more than three weeks of US/Israeli bombing, by land, air and sea, over 1400 Palestinians were killed, including three hundred children. There was no where to hide: Schools, UN compounds, mosques, Hospitals, entire neighborhoods were leveled, using the latest in advanced weaponry, including the infamous DIME bomb.

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White phosphorus attacks on Gaza

Holiday Special, Part 2:

Today on Flashpoints: We rebroadcast part two of our three part series on the massive US/Israeli carpet bombing of the Gaza Strip, A year ago: During more than three weeks of US/Israeli bombing, by land, air and sea, over 1400 Palestinians were killed, including three hundred children. There was no where to hide: Schools, UN compounds, mosques, Hospitals, entire neighborhoods were leveled, using the latest in advanced weaponry, including the infamous DIME bomb.

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