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Today on Flashpoints: An update on the US-supported violence in Haiti; Israeli forces continue their ethnic slaughter by the apartheid wall as they take millions from Palestinian bank accounts; Dolores Huerta and immigrant activists take on Pacific Lumber; we focus on women behind bars; The Knight Report.

00:55  The Knight Report: Insurgents surround Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, in the potential end-game of the half-island nation's 33rd coup.
Sunday February 29
3:15PM
Haiti Documentary
"POTE MAK SONJE: The Raboteau Trial"
(Those Who Bear the Scars Remember)

Delancey Street Screening Room
600 Embarcadero (at Brannan), 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA

05:35  Update on Haiti - Capital Under Seige: Special Correspondent Kevin Pina on the telephone from Haiti describes the situation in Port-Au-Prince and today's developments. Dennis also speaks with Quixote Center director and Haiti Reborn Project founder Eugenia Charles-Mathurin in Washington DC, who expresses the Haitian people's struggle for democracy and survival while the international community stalls and even encourages the approaching humanitarian crisis.

"The US created the opposition [to unseat] the Fanmi Lavalas political party which represents the will of the Haitian people" Eugenia Charles-Mathurin
Haiti Reborn Project

20:15  Report From the SF Federal Building: Dick Becker of the International Action Center and the International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition reports from the protest Thursday afternoon outside the US Fedral Building in San Francisco where about 100 pro-democracy supporters called for an end to US destabilization and the campaign for regime change.

Huwaida Arraf23:00  Palestine Report: Huwaida Arraf, a founder of the International Solidarity Movement, is interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman on the telephone from the occupied territories, after her release from an Israeli jail earlier today. Huwaida describes the events leading up to her arrest at a demonstration against the construction of the Israeli "Separation Wall"

32:20  UFW and Lumber Workers: UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta on the phone from San Jose outside Redwood Empire Sawmills corporate headquarters, speaks with Solange Echeverria after a protest group tried unsucRedwood Logs - source http://www.inn-california.com/wildcoast/mendocino/Navarro/philo.htmlcessfully to meet with management to express concerns of lumber workers from the Cloverdale Redwood Empire sawmill.

42:33  Cloverdale Protest: Roving Producer Miguel Molina reports on the civil action outside of the Redwood Empire sawmill in Cloverdale. Learn more at UFW (707-528-3039 or email). Express your support for workers by contacting Redwood Empire at 408-271-7900, Fax: 408-271-7911 or email the General Manager, Sean Burch)

50:40  Women In Prison: Studio guest Judy Greenspan with the California Prison Focus speaking with Dennis about the plight of terminally ill women in the expanding prison system, political prisoners, battered women, and others serving life sentences. Also joining the discussion is Activist-Poet Susan Rosenberg who will also be speaking at Sparks Fly on Saturday March 28, 7:30PM at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission at 25th Street in San Francisco (for more information, call 415-643-9124)
The 13th Annual Sparks Fly
Annual Fundraising Political/Cultural Event Benefiting Women Political Prisoners.
Saturday, Feburary 28, 7:30 p.m. MCCLA Theater
$10-$25 Admission (sliding scale)

This fabulous event will feature Susan Rosenberg, former political prisoner, award winning poet, writer, and AIDS activist. This is Susan's first public appearance in SF since her release in January, 2002.

Also included will be special guest Yuri Kochiyama, treasured long time activist and supporter of political prisoners and special performance by Gwen Avery, renowned sugar and soul, rhythm and blues singer and pianist. Other guests include Maisha Quint, poet and Unity Nguyen, Vietnamese vocalist and multiinstrumentalist with music of Vietnam and West Africa

Proceeds go to the commissary fund for women political prisoners incarcerated in U.S. prisons.