Photo of Johannes Mehserle taken by Oscar Grant just before he was killed
We’ll feature an in-depth report from the Johannes Mehserle murder trial of Oscar Grant; also, we’ll get an update on the recent killings of two Mexican nationals by US border patrol agents in the last month; and we’ll get a legal response from a law professor who maintains that Elena Kagan will move the Supreme Court to the right; and we’ll also have an update from the Gulf.
Massive new surges of oil bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico and the situation could get a lot worse, and soon, we’ll feature a series of reports from the Florida Keys and from New Orleans, where activists are confronting BP as we go to air; we also have a report from the Second US Social Forum in Detroit on a bold new domesitc workers rights bill, plus Up Front with Jesse Strauss, reporting from the Social Forum.
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 18, 2010
An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas. Read the rest of this entry →
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 15, 2010
At dusk on June 7, Bobbie McDow and her husband were heading south across the busy Paso Del Norte foot-bridge, which connects El Paso, Texas, to Juarez, Mexico. In the sweltering heat, McDow asked her husband if they could pause for a moment so she could catch her breath. Read the rest of this entry →
Dennis Bernstein interviewed Bobbie McDow on last Monday, on June 11th, 2010, about what she saw as an eye-witness to the killing by a border patrol agent of 14 year old Mexican national Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka.
Los Angeles residents protesting the recent border killing of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka
Today on Flashpoints, we continue our focus on the expanding violence of the militarized US-Mexico border; we’ll also speak with Rene Salcedo about the growing movement for migrant worker rights in the US; then, we’ll turn our focus to Bay Area activists who are planning to prevent a ship from apartheid Israel to be unloaded at the Port of Oakland; also, on Flashpoints en espanol we’ll focus on the situation in Arizona and migrant worker rights.
Click Here for more information about the Port of Oakland action which was discussed on today’s show.
We feature exclusive eye-witness testimony of last Monday’s border patrol killing of an unarmed 14 year old Mexican boy; we’ll hear how border patrol and local authorities dispersed dozens of eye-witnesses instead of taking their statement; also, in a major victory for the First Amendment, anti-torture activists, including Kathy Kelly, were found not guilty today by a judge in a Federal Court in Washington, DC; and Obama tours the Gulf as BP’s gusher continues to destroy large chunks of the Gulf of Mexico.
It was a blistering Monday evening in El Paso. The heat had jumped past 95 degrees and it was about to get a lot hotter in this militarized border town, with checkpoints and helicopters flying over head.
Pedestrians, who were crossing the Paso del Norte International bridge that links El Paso, Texas to Juarez, Mexico, had stopped to watch a real-life drama play out in the dried waters of the Rio Grande just below the bridge – a dangerous drama that occurs more and more in this highly militarized region of the Southwest U.S. Read the rest of this entry →
Jesus Hernandez, Father of the Slain 14 Year Old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka
We continue our reporting on Monday night’s border patrol execution of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka; we’ll speak with Benino Pena a long time civil rights and human rights activist on the border; we’ll also talk to Mikey Velarde, the founder of a new grassroots organization working with the people from the ground up, fighting against border occupation; we’ll have a front line update from our special correspondent, dealing with the oil spill from New Orleans; also on Flashpoints en Espanol, we’ll focus on the border shooting and the FBI’s decision to investigate it as a possible civil rights violation.
Today on Flashpoints, we continue our coverage of the cold blooded killing of a teenager by the border patrol in El Paso, Texas; we’ll have a report back on a vigil held last night at the bridge where the young man was gunned down; also, we’ll hear about the violent and deadly conditions that women now face in Haiti; and we’ll speak with Fatima Mohamadi, who was on board the Mavi Marmara of the Freedom Flotilla when it was attacked by Israeli commandos last week.
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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