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Mumia Abu Jamal

Nearly a month after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still in need of basic life and death necessities, we’ll continue our on the ground reporting with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; also, investigating corporations that continue to finance the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine; plus, JR and the Block Report sit down with death row journalist Mumia abu Jamal, who was recently put on the fast track to the death house by the US Supreme Court; and we’ll hear from Pam Africa who is leading the international battle to free Mumia.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Dalit Baum, Who Profits?

Mumia Abu Jamal

Pam Africa

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

Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

Kevin Pina reports from Port-au-Prince on the growing needs of Haitians and the secondary wave of death and suffering resulting from a lack of speedy distribution of essential medicines and foods; also, we continue to remember Howard Zinn with his longtime friend and co-author, Anthony Arnove; plus, we’ll continue our discussion of the bailout and the President’s speech on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Block Report investigates a travesty of justice for a pair of sisters serving heavy jail sentences for no proven crime.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Anthony Arnove, editor, co-author of Voices of a People’s History of the United States with Howard Zinn

JR and the Block Report

Howard Zinn

We’ll remember legendary radical historian Howard Zinn, who passed away earlier today in Santa Monica at age 87; also, Kevin Pina continues his on-the-ground reporting from Port-au-Prince, as hundreds of thousands of Haitians still search for proper food, water, shelter and medical care; and on another edition of Community Business, Catherine Austin Fitts addresses the bailout and the hearings taking place in Washington DC.

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Guests:
Kevin Pina

Catherine Austin Fitts,  Solari Network

Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance

Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

Kevin Pina continues his drumbeat reporting from Port-au-Prince, where tens of thousands of Haitians still wait for food, water and shelter, as thousands more who could have been saved die from a lack of support; also, internationally-renowned peace activist Kathy Kelly joins us to talk about the Peaceful Assembly campaign, a series of actions to hold the Obama administration accountable for promises made and broken; and we’ll hear from Andres Thomas Conteris, who prepares to leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras after spending 129 days with exiled President Manuel Zelaya.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence

US military personnel "monitor traffic" at Port-au-Prince airport (Courtesy of AFP)

A survivor and eyewitness to the Haiti earthquake talks about his experiences and reports on the response by the Haitian diaspora in New York; also, noted international scholar and law professor Francis Boyle files a complaint in the International Criminal Court against high officials of the Bush administration, including Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, for their criminal policy of extraordinary rendition; plus, anti-torture protesters arrested in Washington DC, protesting Obama’s failure to shut down Guantanamo; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Yvon Kernizan, Haitian activist and organizer with the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

Dr. Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at University of Illinois

Matt Deloisio, Witness Against Torture

Project Censored

A Peruvian peacekeeper screams as he tries to control a crowd during food distribution for earthquake survivors at a warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

We’ll speak to a medical doctor who set up a makeshift clinic in her backyard to treat dozens of wounded victims from the earthquake in Haiti; we’ll also speak to Sister Maureen, co-founder of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; our own Kevin Pina, on his way to Haiti to work with the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; and a discussion of the real politics behind the US government’s decision to turn a rescue mission into a military operation.

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Guests:

Dr. Yolene Surena, Haitian medical doctor in Port-au-Prince

Sister Maureen, co-founder of Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

Ira Kurzban

Helicopter flying over Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Francois Mori/AP

We’ll have a frontline report from on the ground in Haiti, where tens of thousands of people have died in a massive earthquake; we’ll also talk about the politics behind relief and hear from Pierre Labossiere about various actions to support the people of Haiti; also, Flashpoints special correspondent Jamal Jumaa released from Israeli detention, he talks about his month in jail, enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture and his perseverance to keep the anti-apartheid movement going; Bekah Wolf talks about expanding Israeli settler attacks in West Bank villages; and cartoonist reporter Joe Sacco talks about the focus story of his book, Footnotes in Gaza.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina, Haiti Action

Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Emergency Relief Fund

Ansel Herz, Narco News

Jamal Jumaa, Stop the Wall

Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project

Joe Sacco, reporter and cartoonist

Joe Sacco

Earthquake in Haiti - from Radio Tele Ginen

The poverty-stricken nation of Haiti was rocked today by a massive earthquake that exceeded 7.0 on the richter scale; a major hospital, the presidential palace and many other buildings were damaged; we’ll have a special report on the devastation; also, ten Palestinians killed in Gaza in two weeks by Israeli airstrikes and tank fire, we’ll go to Gaza City for a full report; and a year after the police murder of Oscar Grant, protesters face felony charges for their street response to the close-range killing.

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Guests:

Kevin Pina

Pierre Labossiere

Farah Juste

Dr. Haidar Eid, professor of Culture Studies at Al-Aqsa University, Steering committee member of PACBI, One Democratic State Group, and Gaza Freedom March

JR and the Block Report

Protesting Torture

Obama breaks his campaign promise to close the US Torture Center at Guantanamo Bay;  anti-torture protesters hold him accountable in Washington D.C. ; Meanwhile, the man who wrote the memos justifying the wide ranging use of torture under the Bush administration, John Yoo, starts teaching again, but exactly where is being kept a secret by Officials at the University of California in Berkeley; And Ali Abumimah speaks with us from Amman, Jordan about two weeks of protest in Cairo against Israeli Apartheid.

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Guests:

Stephanie Tang, World Can't Wait
Kevin Pina, Haiti Action
Ali Abinumah, Electronic Intifada
Frida Berrigan, Witness Against Torture