FLASHPOINTS

Global Climate Summit

Nativo Lopez talks about immigration reform and health care for migrant workers; also, Kevin Pina reports on the 19^th anniversary of Jean Bertrand Aristide’s first election to the presidency in Haiti; plus, Dorothy Guerrero from the Climate Summit talks about the real impacts on the Global South; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent in Haiti

Nativo Lopez, President, Mexican-American Political Association

Dorothy Guerrero, Focus on the Global South – Philippines

Jimmy Santiago Baca

We broadcast live from the ANSWER Coalition in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District; we’ll feature as our special guest the acclaimed Chicano poet, novelist, screenwriter and ex-con Jimmy Santiago Baca; we’ll also be joined by former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and the troubadour of the Mission District, our own Francisco Herrera; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Guests:

Jimmy Santiago Baca, novelist, poet and screenwriter

Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco Poet Laureate

Francisco Herrera

Nativo Lopez

We’ll devote most of the show to Latino civil rights and worker activist Nativo Lopez; we’ll evaluate the Obama administration and hear about what’s happening in the workplace and at the border for immigrants; we’ll also have reports from Francisco Herrera on the battle to close down the torture training center at Fort Huachuca, the Green Card Campaign for real immigration reform, and a recent anti-war protest at a nuclear weapons base in Washington; plus, Flashpoints en Espanol; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Francisco Herrera

Nativo Lopez, National President of Mexican-American Political Association

Project Censored

Domestic Workers United

We broadcast live from the Women’s Building in San Francisco, where immigrant domestic workers have begun to organize at the national level for worker and human rights; we’ll speak to some of the leading activists and organizers in this quest for the rights of immigrant domestic workers; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Guests:

Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO in Washington DC

Hillary Roden, attorney with Day Labor program at La Raza Centro Legal

Maria Luna

Andrea Miccado, Pat Freswah and Aijen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Aoki: The Film

On Veteran’s Day, Military Families Speak Out against the expanding war in Afghanistan; also, a remembrance about the bee that saved my veteran father’s life; the AFL-CIO expands its involvement in representing migrant day laborers; plus, a new film documentary about the only Japanese-American to rise through the ranks of the Black Panthers; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, Military Families Speak Out

Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO

Ben Wang, Director, AOKI

Music by: Jim Page, Matthew Owens and Adam Kathman

Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

An in-depth look at yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting, with Dahr Jamail; also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means joins us to talk about a major visit by the United Nations to the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday; We’ll also get a report from the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where the talks between President Zelaya and the coup government have broken down, and the deal has unraveled; we’ll hear about the harrowing story of two Mexican revolutionaries who were just released from prison after spending a good chunk of their lives locked down for advocating the overthrow of the Mexican government; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Dahr Jamail, author and journalist

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Gibler, reporter

Jimbo Simmons and Bill Means, American Indian Movement

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

Has a deal been struck that will restore President Zelaya to power in Honduras? We’ll speak to our sources inside the Brazilian Embassy, where the President is still holding court; also, a roundtable discussion on coups and regional policy from Honduras to Venezuela to Haiti; news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol will also look at Zelaya’s possible return.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! and Nonviolence International

Lisa Sullivan, SOA Watch in Caracas, Venezuela

Martin Sanchez, San Francisco Consul General to Venezuela

Kevin Pina, FP Haiti Special Correspondent

Miguel Perez, Flashpoints en Espanol

Protesters outside St. Francis Hotel, SF

The Latino-Indigenous community goes green, we’ll speak to David Escobar, one of the key organizers of a major conference dealing with this issue in Marin County this weekend; also, we’ll get an update from the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, on stalled negotiations to restore President Zelaya; and militant activists confront and disrupt former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech last night in San Francisco; we’ll have news headlines from Project Censored; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now

Dave Welsh, social justice activist

David Escobar, Latino-Indigenous Green Movement

Miguel Perez

As we go to air, Flashpoints sources tell us
that a deal may have been struck to restore deposed Honduran President
Maunel Zelaya to power; we’ll have a report from inside the besieged
Brazilian Embassy, where the president is still surrounded by heavily
arm security forces loyal to the coup government: Also will speak two
to the leadings advocates for the rights of undocumented workers in
the US, now under attack by Janet Napolitano, and the Department of
Homeland Security…and on Flashpoints in Espanol, we”ll have an
update on the Mexican government’s military operations to bust the
Electrical workers Unions.
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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris,  Democracy Now
Angelica Salas, Exec. Dir. , CHIRLA: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Richard Hobbs, SIREN: Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
Francisco Herrera
John Ross

Andres Conteris reports from his post inside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, for an update on the continued standoff as President Zelaya remains inside the compound; also, the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, reaches a new and disturbing level of complicity with Israel and the US, we get striking analysis from Ali Abunimah; new revelations on the police murder of Oscar Grant; plus, a new biography on the life and work of eco-activist Rod Coronado and a close look at the struggles inside the environmental movement; and Arnoldo Garcia discusses a new report on growing human rights violations of anti-immigrant policies.

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