FLASHPOINTS

We continue our coverage of the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen; we’ll talk to a leader in the Indigenous Environmental Network and hear from a food aid activist about Russia’s decision today to gut the Kyoto Protocols; also, Noam Chomsky confronted on his claims that a two-state solution is still possible in Palestine.

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According to secret documents, The G-8 supports
climate policies that Jeopardize the entire African
Continent; We'll feature and in-depth interview with
the Sudanese Chairman of the G-77 about the secret
document and its potentially deadly impact on
hundreds of millions of Africans: we also speak to a
Kenyan food aid worker who helped lead a march at
the Climate Summit to protest the secret document.
We'll get a report from Honduras confirming fraud in 
the recent sham election: JR and the Block Report 
and extensive violence by the coup-government during
talk to Mumia Abu Jamal plus the Knight report.

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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

Ali Abunimah

Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, Editor and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, delivers the keynote speech last weekend at the National Campus Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; Abunimah lays out the strategies and the tactics of the growing international movement against Israeli apartheid policies in Palestine.

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Guests:

Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder of the Electronic Intifada

Keynote Speaker at the 2009 National Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College, MA

— Music Break: Invincible – “The Emperor’s Clothes” —

40th Anniversary of Indian Occupation of Alcatraz

Today on a special Un-Thanksgiving edition of Flashpoints, We devote the entire hour to the continued struggle of the indigenous peoples of this continent; we’ll be joined in-studio by AIM founder Clyde Bellecourt and Bill Means, founding member of the International Indian Treaty Council and a leading expert on the history of broken treaties.

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Guests:

Clyde Bellecourt, American Indian Movement

Bill Means, International Indian Treaty Council

Dialogues Against Militarism

In an unprecedented move, Iraq and Afghanistan war resisters from the United States meet with their Israeli counterparts known as refuseniks to strategize and plan future actions to resist militarism; and three Mayors from El Salvador’s FMLN party visit the United States and meet with key officials in San Francisco.

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Guests:

Sarah Lazare, Stephen Funk, Eddie Falcon, and Clare Baird, Dialogues Against Militarism

Roberto Alvarado, Izalco; Francisco Estrada, Santa Ana; and Jose Minero, Delgado – Mayors of Cities in El Salvador

John Ross

Former economic hit-man John Perkins talks about his new book, Hoodwinked: Why the World Financial Markets Imploded And What We Need to Do to Remake Them; also, our special correspondent and globetrotting troublemaker John Ross talks about his new book as well, El Monstruo – Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, the most conflictive megalopolis in the Americas; UC Berkeley students wage a massive walkout and strike against rising fees and privatized education; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

John Perkins, author, Confessions of an Economic Hitman; Hoodwinked

John Ross, author, El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

Students from UC Berkeley Protests and Walkout

Music by Jim Page

Malalai Joya

We’ll speak to a courageous, young Afghan parliamentarian suspended from Parliament for speaking out against the growing corruption and the rise of warlords in US-occupied Afghanistan; also, former Palestinian political prisoner speaks out against the ongoing and systematic torture meted out in Israeli prisons; plus, we’ll hear about an action by the American Indian Movement against the racist use of Indian names for mascots in professional sports; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Malalai Joya, former Afghan Parliamentarian, author, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

Ala’ Jaradat, program manager of Addameer Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights Organization

Jimbo Simmons, American Indian Movement

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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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

Arundhati Roy

An in-depth interview with internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy, Roy is the author of a brand-new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. She speaks about the new book and the deterioration of real democracy around the world; also, we get an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, Award-winning novelist and essayist

Jeff Mackler, Director, National Campaign to Free Mumia Abu Jamal