FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints, we feature a troubling and shocking documentary on the hidden history of genocide against indigenous people of Canada by the church and the state; we’ll interview a whistle-blower who lost his job trying to reveal the dastardly acts and the cover up that continues to this day.

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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.

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

Howard Zinn

Kevin Pina continues his reporting from Port-au-Prince, as the Haitian capital faces a new level of humanitarian crisis as the rainy season begins; and we hear from the legendary historian and educator Howard Zinn in a speech he gave last year called War and Civil Disobedience.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Howard Zinn

Barbara Lubin

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.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Francisco Herrera

Mohammed Khatib

We continue our reporting from the earthquake zone in Haiti with Kevin Pina and Laura Flynn of the Aristide Foundation; also, Israel intensifies its arrests and attacks against nonviolent Palestinian peace activists, we’ll talk to Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, who was just released from five days in detention; and on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we look at Secretary Treasurer Geithner’s claiming credit for the disastrous bailout.

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Guests:

Mohammed Khatib, Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in

Kevin Pina

Laura Flynn, Aristide Foundation

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

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.

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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.

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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

Food Security / Anuradha Mittal

Internationally-renowned expert on trade and development Anuradha Mittal talks about the politics of food and has a good deal to say about what’s happening between African farmers and the so-called Green Revolution; also, we rebroadcast an interview with legendary South African poet and leading anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, who passed away December 26^th.

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Guests:

Anuradha Mittal, Founder/Executive Director of the Oakland Institute

Dennis Brutus, legendary South African poet/freedom fighter (passed away December 26th, 2009)

Leonard Peltier

Jewish Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist Heddy Epstein, 
is the First to sign the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli
Apartheid: In her on-going dialogue with Flashpoints,
Heddy Epstein explains why; Also, a special report from 
Chiapas on the anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising: 
and American Indian Movement Founder, Bill Means, 
remembers Wounded Knee on the hundred and tenth 
anniversary of US Calvary Slaughter there, and calls for 
the release of Leonard Peltier.
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Guests:

Heddy Epstein
Bill Means
Alejandro Reyes 

...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