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D'loadToday on Flashpoints: The US government pressures Jamaica to evict Aristide from the region as the
repression in
Haiti
continues, we’ll
feature a special report from Brian Concannon, attorney for President
Aristide just back from the Dominican Republic; also, we’ll hear from a
leader of Lavalas who risked his life to leave the country to testify
before Congress; also, a six year old
Palestinian boy is shot in the
chest by Israeli colonizers in the West Bank after another vicious
raid; the Bush administration relents and allows National Security
Advisor Condoleezza Rice to testify before the 9/11 commission; the
Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Urban warfare in central Asia, presidential litigation in Venezuela, death threats for Aristide, and Condoleezza Rice will appear before the 9/11 panel
06:00 A Small Killing: Amer Abdelhadi, General Manager of radio Tariq Al Mahabeh in Nablus is interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, describing the death of a six-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the chest inside the Balata refugee camp over the weekend during an invasion by Israeli soldiers when they fired on the home
18:00 Democracy Squashed - Trampling the Haitian Constitution: Brian Concannon,
human
rights lawyer
with the International Attorneys Office in Haiti, back from a trip to
the Dominican Republic, and Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, outspoken Haitian
activist and human rights advocate, recently arrived from Haiti, are
interviewed in the studio by Dennis Bernstien. Brian Concannon
describes the well-coordinated events leading up to the coup, and
particularly activities of the last sixteen months over the border in
the Dominican Republic, and the US role in the preparations for and
execution of the
overthrow of the democratic government of Haiti. Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine describes the
extra-judicial targeting and victimization of pro-democracy Haitians
and Lavalas supporters (translated by Pierre Labosiere of the Haiti Action Network). Hear
Brian
Concannon, Lovinsky Pierre-Antione and others, moderated by Dennis
Bernstein, at the LBML Auditorium, UC Hastings College of
Law, on Wednesday 3/31/04 at 5:30PM, 198 McAllister Street in San
Francisco (Hastings on Haiti, Haiti
Coup: International Law Implications in Haiti & the US)
phone 510-483-7481 or email hastingstohaiti@yahoo.com.
Also at 7:30PM Thursday 4/01/04 at the College of Marin in Kentfield,
phone 415-455-9498 for tickets and information. Check the Haiti Action Network website for
updates
(phone 510-483-7481)
50:00 Rice to Testify: Kyle Hence, cofounder of 9/11 Citizen's Watch, interviewed by Dennis about the White House announcement today that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify before the 9/11 panel. Hear some astonishing newly-emerging questions about Rice's statements, and the head of Pakistani Intelligence (ISI).