FLASHPOINTS

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, we speak with investigative journalist Alan Nairn on the run in Indonesia. Nairn just broke a major story on the killings of civil activists in Indonesia by the military. Also, Arundhati Roy speaks about her visits w/the Maoist rebels in central India as well as legendary enviornmental activist Mike Roselle and we’ll hear a report on the expanding militarization of the U.S./Mexico border and it’s lethal impact on migrant workers.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Refugee camp in East Timor

Today on Flashpoints, we’ll speak to investigative reporter Alan Nairn about an Indonesian military assassination program against dissidents. We’ll also speak to Enrique Morones, founder of the Border Angels and former high level sports executive with an update of the militarization of the Mexican-American border and how he is giving out water to the people that are stranded in the desert. Then Bob Parry talks about the politics of healthcare coverage in the media.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:
Alan Nairn, Investigative journalist
Enrique Morones, Founder, Border Angels
Bob Parry, Editor, Consortium News

Angana Chatterji

Today on Flashpoints, we’ll speak to legendary radical environmental activist Mike Roselle about his on-going struggle to end the devastating mining practice of mountain-top removal in the Coal River Mountain Range. Also, We’ll speak to Angana Chatterji about a crucial benefit with Arundhati Roy to support The International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice In Indian-Administered Kashmir; and we’ll get a live report from Miguel Gavilan Molina on a march and rally for immigrants rights taking place in San Francisco.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:
Miguel Gavilan Molina, Producer, Flashpoints en Espanol
Mike Roselle, Co-founder, EarthFirst
Angana Chatterji, anthropologist and feminist historian

Cesar Chavez y Dolores Huerta

Today we broadcast live from the Center for Spirit, Art and Politics in the Heart of farm-worker country in Sonoma county. We’ll speak with Casimero Alavarez, United Farmworkers Coordinator for Northern California, about the multiple struggles ahead for the UFW, as they prepare to celebrate the birth of UFW founder, Cesar Chavez. We’ll also speak with Chicano Studies Professor Ron Lopez, of Sonoma State University, about the massive budget cuts to public education in California and its particular impacts on brown students in the state. We will also follow-up on a new federal crackdown by ICE on immigrant workers in Sonoma County and Fashpoints in Espanol.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Co-hosts:
Molly Goss, Miguel Gavilan Molina, and Miguel Perez

Guests:
Casimero Alvarez, UFW/North Bay Coordinator
Ron Lopez, Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University
Evalina Molina

Broadcasting live from the Answer Coalition in the Heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: We’ll contine our special reporting on a new ICE federal crackdown against immigrant workers and their familes in Sonoma County in Northern California. We’ll speak to the Prime Minister in Exile from Burma, also known as Myanmar. Then a speak out against the expanding war in Afghanastan, and Flashpoints in Espanol.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

A woman grieves after an ICE raid

Today on a special Red Alert edition of Flashpoints, we report live from the Graton Day Labor Center in Sonoma County where Federal ICE agents have just instituted a draconian policy known as the Secure Communities Program. This program will jeopardize thousands of migrant workers and their families in Sonoma County. We’ll devote the entire program to what the local activists here are calling a war on the entire immigrant community.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:
Julia Harumni Mass, Attorney, ACLU
Richard Coshnear, Immigration Attorney
Ron Lope, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, Sonoma State University

Immigrant Rights are Human Rights

Today on Flashpoints Francisco Herrera and Miguel Gavilan Molina join Dennis for a discussion on the new Civil Rights movement and the continuing struggle for immigrant rights. Then, leaders of the American Indian movement speak out against the denial of parole for Leonard Peltier.

———-

LISTEN ONLINE: Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:
Renee Saucedo, Attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza
Francisco Herrera, Musician and Flashpoints co-host
Miguel Gavilan Molina, Producer, Flashpoints en Espanol

Haiti

We continue our reporting from ground zero in Haiti, where hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims continue to face life and death conditions; also, Francisco Herrera reports back from the National Latino Caucus on migration, militarization and the border wars; we’ll also get a report on a recent slaughter in Chihuahua; we’ll hear about a recent action by the Border Angels; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol reports from the National Latino Caucus.

———-
LISTEN ONLINE:
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:

Kevin Pina

Francisco Herrera

Girls collect water from a broken pipe in the ground to take back to their families who are camped in vacant lots in Port au Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

We broadcast live from San Rafael’s Canal Welcome Center for the indigenous immigrant community; we’ll continue our reporting on Haiti with a devastating report from Bay Area attorney Walter Riley, who spent the last three days digging out bodies and treating the wounded in Port-au-Prince; plus, we’ll be joined by Evelina Molina, just back from the Global Climate Summit, we’ll be joined by the director of the Center, Douglas Mundo, Norman Solomon will be with us to talk about the fight to save the earth; and on Flashpoints on Espanol, Evelina Molina will talk about the Green Summit and green jobs with Douglas Mundo.

——-
LISTEN ONLINE:
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:

Walter Riley, Bay Area-based Civil Rights attorney and board member of Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

Kevin Pina

Norman Solomon

Evelina Molina

Davin Cardenas

Global Climate Crisis

We’ll have an expansive report-back from the recent Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and we’ll be joined by Tony Gonzales of the American Indian Movement West, Flashpoints special correspondent Evelina Molina, who went as a part of a Global Exchange delegation, also joining us is Global Exchange founder Kevin Danaher, and syndicated media columnist Norman Solomon will give some analysis of the media coverage of the climate summit; we’ll be looking at what happened and where the movement goes from here; plus, JR reports from Los Angeles, on the opening hearings for the trial of Oscar Grant murderer, BART Cop Johannes Mesherle; we’ll also have news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

——-
LISTEN ONLINE:
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests:

JR and the Block Report

Tony Gonzales, AIM West

Evelina Molina, FP Special Correspondent

Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange

Norman Solomon, Media columnist

Richard Becker, International ANSWER Coalition