FLASHPOINTS

...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

Brother Blue / design by Warren Lehrer

There’s no genius behind Disney’s Baby Einstein products, just a sales pitch for harmful material; also, a remembrance of one of this country’s most significant African-American storytellers, Brother Blue; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Dr. Allen Kanner, psychologist, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Warren Lehrer, book artist

Brother Blue