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October 26, 2017 by
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Today on Flashpoints, We’ll speak to Pablo Alvarado of NDLON about the expanded battle to assure worker rights for undocumented people who will be doing the crucial work of rebuilding Northern California in the face of massive destruction left by the wildfires: also we hear about a new UNDOCUFUND to support undocumented workers who lost everything they had including their homes; And we’ll get an update on the case of Political Prisoner and noted journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal.
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Tags: Mumia Abu Jamalndlonpablo alvaradopolitical prisonerrachel wolkensteinundocumented workerswildfireWorkers' Rights
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Posted on
May 13, 2010 by
Flashpoints
This is what "Negev Development" funded by the JNF looks like in Khashm Zanna, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev. (International Jewish Anti-zionist Network)
We speak to UC Berkeley student activists after the hunger strike officially ended last night as the administration agreed to negotiate towards their demands, we’ll talk to them about what happens next and why one of the students remains on a hunger strike on his way to Arizona; plus, JR and the Block Report speak with Ramona Africa, the lone adult survivor of the MOVE headquarters bombing by police 25 years ago in Philadelphia; and Bedouin Palestinian attorney Rawia Abu Rabia of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel discusses the entrenched institutionalized racism and discrimination inside the state against its indigenous citizens, as home demolitions and attacks on civil rights leaders continue apace.
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Guests:
Alejandro Lara Briseño and Ricardo Gomez, UC Berkeley student hunger strikers
Ramona Africa, MOVE
Rawia Abu Rabia, social justice activist and attorney, Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Tags: EducationIndigenous rightsInternational LawIsraelMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPalestinePolice brutalityStudent rights
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Posted on
May 06, 2010 by
Flashpoints
Olympia-Rafah Mural Project
The Rachel Corrie foundation joins dozens of other activist organizations fighting against Israeli apartheid through the arts and self-expression, Cindy Corrie joins Susan Greene of the Break the Silence Mural Project and Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children’s Alliance in the Flashpoints studio to talk about a massive mural in downtown Olympia, Washington; also, we’ll have special coverage of the Poor People’s March to Fulfill the Dream, the march that started in Louisiana is heading for New Orleans, we pick up the story in Memphis, Tennessee; JR and the Block Report speak to Holly Works, a protester still facing trumped-up felony charges around the Oscar Grant rebellions in Oakland last year; and a new commentary on Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant legislation by political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.
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Guests:
Susan Greene, Breaking the Silence and Olympia-Rafah Mural Project
Cindy Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Cheri Honkala, National Organizer for Poor People’s Economic and Human Rights Campaign
Abel Francisco, marcher
JR with Holly Works
Mumia Abu Jamal, Prison Radio
Tags: Indigenous rightsInternational LawIsraelMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPalestinePolice brutality
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Posted on
April 27, 2010 by
Flashpoints
Dr. Michael Parenti
Renowned author and social critic Michael Parenti debates military historian Victor Hansen about the state of US imperialism and globalization; also, JR and the Block Report talk about Imam Luqman Abdullah, killed by Detroit police and the FBI in 2008; and political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal talks about the Tea Party movement in this country.
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Debate between Michael Parenti and Victor Hansen
(thanks to KFCF for this recording)
JR and the Block Report
Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and journalist
Tags: ImperialismInternational LawMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPolice brutalityPrison issuesRight-WingWar profiteering
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Posted on
April 26, 2010 by
Flashpoints
A Palestinian teenager sits outside a protest tent in Silwan, next to a site where Israeli settlers are excavating a tunnel. (Jonathan Cook, Electronic Intifada)
Rene Saucedo of the San Francisco Day Labor Center reports back from City Hall on a day of protest against Arizona’s racist, anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070; also, Israel plans to build more illegal settlement colonies in occupied East Jerusalem as Palestinians face violent repression by settlers and Israeli forces; we’ll have an in-depth discussion on the state of emergency facing Haitians three months after the devastating earthquake as relief and food runs out; and commentaries by death row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal.
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Guests:
Rene Saucedo, Director, SF Day Labor Center
Zakaria Odeh, Director, Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem
Ryan Ikeda, filmmaker and high school teacher
Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner, journalist
Tags: Food SecurityHaitiImmigrant RightsInternational LawIsraelMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPalestinePrison issuesZionism/Zionist Lobby
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Posted on
November 05, 2009 by
Flashpoints
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
Tags: IndiaIndigenous rightsInternational LawMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPakistanPrison issues
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Posted on
September 16, 2009 by
Flashpoints
US bombs Somalia using attack helicopters
A special report by Robert Knight on the recent US bombing and extra-judicial assassinations in Somalia; also, Temple University professor and Mumia Abu Jamal expert Linn Washington updates the case of Mumia and reveals further government misconduct; and our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.
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Linn Washington, Professor of Journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia and a weekly columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network
Tags: AfricaCommunity BusinessCorporate CrimesMumia Abu JamalObama AdministrationPrison issuesSomalia
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