INVESTIGATIVE News Radio Weekdays at 5 PM Pacific Time at 94.1 Berkeley, California USA

FLASHPOINTS!

Recent Shows     Recent Headlines     Archived Shows     Listen KPFA Live   Get Audio Player  
 Pacifica Stations  Search Site   Contact   FP Staff
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load
Today on Flashpoints: Attorneys for Jean-Bertrand Aristide start legal proceedings against the United States government for their involvement in the coup against the sitting president of Haiti. We'll continue our on-the-ground reporting from Port-au-Prince, we'll hear from a young Haitian media activist now in hiding and fearing for his life, we'll also go back to occupied Palestine where Israeli occupiers have killed Robert Knightat least fifteen in Gaza and others in Jenin, and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report, with Robert Knight in New York

05:00 Kevin Pina, Flashpoints special correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti speaking with Dennis Bernstein

13:00 Ira Kurzban, attorney for President Aristide interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

25:00 Marguerite Leurent, former attorney to President Aristide, current poet, award-winning playwright, lawyer and activist with Nora Barrows-Friedman, Solange Echeverria and Lyn Duff

Right now children are among the thousands of Haitians who have been forced in to hiding by those who oppose democracy. Flashpoints has been in touch with these young people, many of whom were youth reporters for Radyo Timoun, Children's Radio Station in Port-au-Prince.
If you like to help financially to  meet the inmediate needs of Haitian children in hiding, you can send checks made out to:

EBSC, (that's East Bay Sanctuary Covenant)
2362 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley, CA  94704

be sure to put "Haiti Children's Fund" in the memo line.
100% of donations will go directly to young people in hiding. For more information you can also contact Lyn Duff at (617) 306-0943
 
37:00 Ti Fra, Youth Reporter at Haitian Children's Radio, now destroyed by anti-Lavalas thugs
Radio Tariq Al Mahabeh http://www.tmfm.net
50:00 Amir Abdel-hadi, Director of sister station Tariq Al Mahabeh reports on the latest violence and killings by Israeli forces in Nablus in the occupied West Bank