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Today on Flashpoints: A live report from Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on the ground in Hebron; Dahr Jamail in Fallujah on the ongoing US massacre; also special excerpts from a teach-in on the occupation of Haiti with Pierre Labossiere, founder of the Haiti Action Network; and the bittersweet worldwide celebration of the 50th birthday of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
01:00 Hebron Perspective: In the first of a series of reports from occupied Palestine, Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman on the phone from Hebron describes walking through the city from the bustling Farmers Market, past cement road blocks to barbed wire surrounding Israeli settlements carved out of the heart of the city from which residents were expelled, to the ghost town of empty barricaded and boarded-up former Palestinian homes, too close to annexed settlements for Israeli settlers to tolerate. Compulsory listening for anyone who has wondered what conditiond are really like in Palestine today.
11:00 Musical Break
11:40 Destroying Fallujah, Saving Fallujah: Dahr Jamail, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, reports on the ultimatum given by US military to the people of Fallujah, and also describes the deceptive, dishonest and manipulative tactics of US soldiers refusing to remove unexploded mortars from a farmer's fields. Sniping of civilians continues, closure of the main hospital, blocking of medical assistance and ambulances, and the hazards of unexploded ordnance in the streets. Read more on NewStandardNews.net
19:40 Tell the TRUTH About Haiti:
Excerpts from the April 14 speakout featuring Congresswoman Barbara
Lee, Haiti Action Network Founder Pierre Labossiere, independent
journalist and filmmaker Kevin Pina, and introduced by Flashpoints
Executive Producer Dennis Bernstein. Dennis: Our objective tonight is to tell you the truth about what happened in Haiti on February 29, 2004. On that date... the United States government... kidnapped the duly elected president of Haiti in a coup d'etat. This violent, anti-democratic action was, without a doubt, the culmination of a multi-year destabilization program carried out by surrogates and agents, in one form or another, of the US government. This act of state-sponsored terrorism was directed at the highest levels of the US government by seasoned US coupists and terrorists Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, both high level advisors to the President of the United States...
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Life in the Party: April 24, 2004
marks the 50th bithday of Mumia
Abu-Jamal and the release of his new book We Want Freedom: A life in the Black
Panther Party. Jeff Meckler, of the Socialist Action
bookstore, and national coordinator of the Mobilization to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal
is interviewed by Flashpoints Associate Producer Solange
Echeverria. Jeff Meckler outlines the circumstances surrounding
Mumia's incarceration -a case which is symptomatic of all that is wrong
with the criminal justice system in the US - and also the critical last
minute developments that saved Kevin Cooper from wrongful execution in
February of this year.
Events: See the FreeMumia.org
calendar for details
of the
upcoming rally and march: MUMIA ABU-JAMAL First
Internationalist Film Festival and MARCH & RALLY! April 23
and 24,
2004