FLASHPOINTS

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

Indigenous People’s Day Special!

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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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Environmental justice

We spend the hour looking at the environmental justice movement, the wins, the losses and the long fights ahead; we speak with Dean Kuipers, author of a brand-new biography on Rod Coronado, the legendary eco-rights and animal-rights activist; also, we’ll hear from longtime activist Mike Roselle and talk about his new book documenting his life and work in the environmental justice movement, including his current struggle to save the mountains of Appalachia from coal strip mining; live music in the studio with political singer-songwriter Dana Lyons; and we’ll hear sounds from the documentary film Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice.

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Guests:

Dean Kuipers, author, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness

Mike Roselle, author, Treespiker: From Earth First to Lowbagging, My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action

Dana Lyons, singer-songwriter extraordinaire

Sounds from the film Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice

Amanda Bellerby, co-host

Blood and Politics

Blood and Politics: An in-depth look at the white supremacists and neo-Nazi movement with one of the leading experts in the field; also, a new report documents a trail of human rights violations against immigrants and undocumented workers; and activists planning major protests across the country tomorrow against the expansion of the war in Afghanistan.

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Guests:

Richard Becker, ANSWER Coalition

Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Leonard Zeskind, author, Blood and Politics

We continue our drumbeat reporting from the streets of Tegucigalpa and inside the Brazilian Embassy, where a military coup standoff continues in Honduras; also, author and journalist Max Blumenthal dissects the inner workings of the religious right wing in his new book, Republican Gomorrah; and Jimbo Simmons of the American Indian Movement talks about the ongoing fight for indigenous rights in North America.

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Honduran coup military attacking pro-Zelaya demonstrators (via BBC)

Another teacher killed in Honduras resisting the coup government, we’ll have a report from the funeral which is beginning at this hour, and we’ll go back to the Brazilian Embassy to get a response from President Zelaya on the murder of another educator standing up for democracy; also, we’ll speak to several leading activists in the battle for immigrant worker rights in the Bay Area; and headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and FSRN

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol, Nonviolence International

Gabriel Hernandez, Exec. Director of Hayward Day Labor Center

Father Rigoberto Rivas, Exec. Director of Multicultural Institute in Berkeley

American Indian Movement

We devote the entire hour to the struggle for indigenous rights in North America, we’ll be joined by Jimbo Simmons, reporting on a battle to take back indigenous lands in Northern California; and we’ll feature sounds from American Outrage, a full-length documentary on the struggle of two Shoshone grandmothers struggling to hold onto their farm and land in rural Nevada.

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Guests:

Jimbo Simmons, American Indian Movement

American Outrage: the film

Honduran police at Brazilian Embassy

Special Correspondent Tim Russo reports on a Funeral March for one of the first Victims of the Coup Government’s lethal crack down on the growing resistance:Also a report from Inside the Brazilian Embassy, where president Zeleya is still surrounded by heavily armed pro-coup security forces, and we’ll also feature a round-up of the various human rights violations, since the coup began three months ago.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and FSRN

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol, Nonviolence International

Grahame Russell, Rights Action