Archived Shows - August 2005
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: We feature an up date for Haiti’s US Sponsored Killing Fields: And we continue our series, poets in a time of war, with notes Palestinian poet and Writer, Naomi Shihab Nye: And from exile the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report: Iraqis crushed on a pilgrimage in Baghdad, and Americans drowned along the Gulf coast after Hurricane Katrina simultaneously endure their worst tragedies of the 21st century. Both disasters have a common cause: The presence of US troops in Iraq, and the corresponding absence of National Guard units in Louisiana.
06:00 An Update On Haiti
Brian Concannon, Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
18:00 Poets in a Time of War
Naomi Shihab Nye, Acclaimed Poet, Essayist and Teacher
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
We’ll Feature a round-table discussion on how best to stop the Bush war
machine and end the bloody occupation of Iraq and Palestine;
Also how to deal with the sell out democrats;
And from exile the Knight Report.00:01 The Knight Report: The Bush administration is uniting disparate Iraqi communities - through their mutual hatred of a US-designed constitution... The Pentagon kills 5 dozen Iraqis with 500 pound bombs near the Syrian border... Lebanese police commanders are detained over the prime minister's assassination... South Africa washes its hands of mediation in Cote D'Ivoire... And... Zimbabwe passes new postcolonial legislation that inhibits foreign travel, and blocks lawsuits by legacy white farmers. Robert Knight
06:00 The Antiwar Movement, A Round Table Discussion:
Larry Everest, Editor of Revolucion
Newspaper
Barbara Lubin, MECA, www.mecaforpeace.org
Norman Salomo, Syndicated Columnist
Barbara Lubin, MECA, www.mecaforpeace.org
Norman Salomo, Syndicated Columnist
41:00 Open Lines, Free Speech: Listener comments and questions
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Monday, August 29, 2005
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01:00 Knight Report
07:00 Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas
Bill Hackwell, International ANSWER, and Sharon, sister of Carilles bombing victim
15:00 From Texas’ Death Row: Women Facing Execution
Gloria Rubac, Committee to Free Francis Newton
31:00 Music Break
34:00 Poetry in a Time of War
Aurora Levins-Morales, poet, activist, historian
Friday, August 26, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: 5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness a machete massacre of up to 50 victims by national police, we’ll have a special report from Kevin Pina on the ground; also, we’ll visit the Peace House on the perimeter of the Bush Ranch, where the alternative media has been getting the word out about Cindy Sheehan and the growing movement against the war; we’ll feature a report on the trial of CIA asset and mastermind of the 1976 Cuban airline bombing Luis Posada Carilles; headlines from the region, a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Headlines from the Region Dennis, Miguel Guerrero
06:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent / Tom Luce, investigative reporter
30:00 Update from Crawford, Texas: The Media
Juan Torres, Father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan
41:00 Commentary. Miguel Gavilan Molina
44:00 Flashpoints En Español. Miguel Guerrero
06:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent / Tom Luce, investigative reporter
30:00 Update from Crawford, Texas: The Media
Juan Torres, Father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan
41:00 Commentary. Miguel Gavilan Molina
44:00 Flashpoints En Español. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, August 25, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Bush Supreme Court Nominee tied directly to the Administration’s wide-ranging program of illegal detention, abuse and torture, we’ll have a special report on what appears to be an illegal conflict of interest on the part of Judge Roberts; plus, Ali Abunimah on today’s Israeli undercover attack that left five young Palestinians dead; a reading of Amira Hass’ latest article about the so-called Gaza disengagement; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
05:00 Torture and US Policy
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
33:00 Five Palestinians Killed in the West Bank
Ali Abunimah, co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net
51:00 Amira Hass: The Remaining 99.5%,
Read by Nora Barrows-Friedman
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: California’s immigrant community shocked by a pro-Minutemen position taken by Fabian Nunez, the speaker of the California Assembly; plus, Israelis continue to tighten their grip on illegally-seized land in the West Bank, providing more and more homes for the violent settlers from Gaza; organizers prepare for major national demonstrations as opposition to the Bush wars grows; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Palestine In Focus. Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.pnn.ps
23:00 Music Break
23:00 California Anti-Immigrant Policies Continue
Juan Jose Gutierriez, organizer/activist
37:00 California Anti-Immigrant Policies Continue (Part 2)
Rene Saucedo, activist, lawyer with La Raza Centro Legal.
45:00 March and Rally in SF on September 24th
Bill Hackwell, Natalie Hrizi, ANSWER Coalition members.
Miguel G. Molina, FP Reporter
56:00 Father Gerard Jean Juste Writes from Haitian Prison
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Gazans left in ruins and in the lurch as Israelis solidify their holds in the West Bank, we’ll feature a report from Gaza with Toufic Haddad; also, televangelist Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela; in Iraq, Constitution or no, the slaughter
continues; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report: Iraq hits the Constitutional snooze alarm yet again for three more days; London drags its feet as new revelations emerge in the police murder of a Brazilian electrician; and Ayatollah Pat 'Al Jihadi' Robertson issues a fatwah to decapitate Venezuela's government.
06:00 Iraq and the Growing Antiwar Movement: Larry Everest, author. Visit www.WorldCantWait.org to find out what you can do to drive out the Bush Regime.
19:00 Gaza, the West Bank and Continued Settler Attacks:
Toufic Haddad, Palestinian-American activist and journalist, in Gaza
44:00 Music Break
46:00 Pat Robertson Calls for Hugo Chavez’ Assassination:
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research in Washington, D.C., with Reverend Graylen Scott Hagler.
Read Bush Administration Increasingly Isolated on Venezuela by Mark Weisbrot
Monday, August 22, 2005
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spirited antiwar demonstration led by Gold Star Mothers
greets Bush in Salt Lake City, considered the most conservative area in the
country; also, an update on Haiti’s expanding killing fields; the meltdown
between Hugo Chavez and the US continues as Chavez removes immunity for
US agents; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Report from Haiti: With Kevin Pina and Sasha Kramer
26:00 Music Break: Give them their Rights, The Congos
27:00 Venezuela: with Gregory Wilpert
39:00 Antiwar vigil in Salt Lake City, Utah: with Celeste Zappala, co-founder, Gold Star Mothers
47:00 Veterans for Peace in SLC: with Aaron Davis
55:00 Music Break: Joan Baez in Crawford, Texas
Friday, August 19, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: We Speak with a Gold Star Mother holding vigil at Camp Casey in Crawford Texas. We speak with Father Aiden Troy in North Belfast and Carol Russell in New York about the sectarian murder of a 15 year old Catholic youth in Northern Ireland. A weekly report from the Palestine News Network and Flashpoints in Espanol.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Massive demonstrations in Haiti demanding justice and the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, we’ll go to Port-au-Prince with Kevin Pina; plus, an in-depth look at the life of Palestinian refugees, we’ll speak with community leader and journalist Ziad Abbas of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in the Dheisheh refugee camp, here in the Flashpoints studio; we feature two radio pieces by students of the Ibdaa media project; and an update from Cindy Sheehan’s growing vigil at the Crawford ranch.
01:00 Report from Haiti: Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
08:00 Palestine:
Gaza, the West Bank, and the
Next
Generation: Ziad Abbas, co-director/co-founder, Ibdaa Cultural
Center, Dheisheh refugee camp in West Bank – www.dheisheh-ibdaa.net, www.mecaforpeace.org37:00 Music Break
38:00 Youth Voices from Palestine: Students of Radio 194
1. Maram Faraj, student of Ibdaa Radio
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2. Mohammed Yahia, student of Ibdaa Radio 194
51:00 Voices from Crawford,
Texas2. Mohammed Yahia, student of Ibdaa Radio 194
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Legendary Haitian Priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste collapses in prison, we’ll get a report on his condition from Port-au-Prince; plus, Robert Fisk in Baghdad talks about today’s series of deadly car bombs after he visits the city morgue; an Israeli settler opens fire on a group of Palestinian workers in the West Bank, killing three, as Israeli soldiers continue the evictions in Gaza; we go back to Crawford, Texas, at the expanding anti-war vigil; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Report from Haiti: Father Gerard Jean-Juste Collapses in Prison
Bill Quigley, attorney for Fr. Jean-Juste
13:00 Music Break
15:00 Car Bombs and Chaos in Iraq. Robert Fisk, journalist, Independent of London
31:00 Music Break
33:00 Report from Gaza. Mohammed Ali, FP Special Correspondent
43:00 In Crawford: Cindy Sheehan Vigil Gains Momentum. Amanda Bellerby
“Song for Cindy Sheehan” by David Rovics
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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A huge, 50-foot-high
concrete wall separates
the Gush Katif settlement bloc from Khan Yunis.
Palestinian land between the Israeli settlement and
Khan Yunis has been destroyed. (Arjan El Fassed)
the Gush Katif settlement bloc from Khan Yunis.
Palestinian land between the Israeli settlement and
Khan Yunis has been destroyed. (Arjan El Fassed)
Today on Flashpoints:
Israel’s theatrics in Gaza play out in the West Bank as settlements and
the apartheid wall expand and settlers attack Palestinians, we’ll speak
with Ali Abunimah on the latest news from occupied Palestine; plus,
stand up and take to the streets: the September 24th massive march and
rally to end the occupations of Iraq, Palestine and Haiti; Earth
Matters looks at the Mountain Justice Summer campaign in Appalachia,
where violent police and company thugs cannot deter the community
uprising against Mountain Top Decapitation coal mining; and the Knight
Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Arlington crosses are desecrated in Crawford, Texas as local neighbors try to enact a no-drive zone at Camp Casey on the outskirts of Bush's Ponderosa. Robert Knight
06:00 Report from Haiti: Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
16:00 Gaza Continues the Pullout: Ali Abunimah, co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net Also see EI's Gaza "Disengagement" page
28:00 Music Break
29:00 The Anti-War Movement: Taking Action, Moving Forward: Richard Becker and Elias Rashmawi; ANSWER Coalition
44:00 Earth Matters: Amanda Bellerby
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Monday, August 15, 2005
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smokescreen to distract from Israel’s illegal land theft in the West Bank? Also, a judge rules that providing Iraqi children basic medical care is a crime, we’ll speak with Kathy Kelly about his fine against Voices in the Wilderness; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
05:00 Report from Gaza: The Pullout
Laila el-Haddad, correspondent, al-Jazeera
14:00 Report from Gaza
Mohammed Ali, FP Special Correspondent
21:00 Music Break
22:00 Report from the West Bank: The Pullout
Jamal Juma’, coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign,
31:00 Palestine and Our Responsibility
Uda Walker, political education director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
46:00 Music Break
48:00 Voices in the Wilderness Fined $20,000 for Defying Economic Sanctions
Kathy Kelly, VITW director.
Friday, August 12, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
We
return to Haiti’s killing fields where the murders and arrests and tortures
of pro-democracy activists continue with the US and the UNcalling the
shots; also, we’ll speak with members of the Mayan communityin the
Mission District who have begun to organize for their rights;we’ll speak
with Senator Simon Salinas about the Dump Arnold Campaign; plus,
musicians and poets come together to bridge the gap betweendifferent
cultures in the wake of 9/11 hate crimes; a commentary byMiguel
Gavilan Molina, and Flashpoints en Espanol.
00:00 Introduction. Dennis,
Miguel Molina, Francisco. Miguel Guerrero with regional headlines10:00 Update on Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
16:00 San Francisco Mayan Community
SONG BREAK
26:00 Dumping Arnold. Assemblyman Simon Salinas
35:00 Mini-Concert: Bridge Across the Blue
Bridging the Gap Between Different Communities
Pereeni Sundara-lingam and Colm O Riain
42:00 Gavilan’s Commentary. Miguel Gavilan Molina
45:00 Flashpoints en Espanol. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, August 11, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
A series of massacres by Haitian death squad police leave dozens
wounded and dead, including a pregnant woman and a teenager; also we'll
return to Crawford, Texas to check in with the Gold Star anti-war
activists calling for an end to the Iraq war; we'll also speak with
Rahul Mahajan about the ongoing killing in Iraq, as the US sacks the
mayor of Baghdad; plus headlines from occupied Palestine; and Earth
Matters exposes how Bush wants to leave no tree behind in the
wake of Oregon's Biscuit fire.Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
An in-depth report on the real implications of the Israelis bloody
pullout of occupied Gaza; also, we’ll feature a special report from
Crawford, Texas, where the Arlington West project has just delivered a
thousand crosses to signify the growing number of dead from the illegal
war in Iraq; and from exile in Southern California, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Peace protesters erect a thousand crosses outside George Bush's Texas ranch to commemorate US troops killed in Iraq, as the Commander in Chief plays AWOL with a Gold Star mother; the junta in Mauritania will keep close ties with Israel as well as the United States, which sent 1,000 troops or more to the oil-rich nation for the biggest US military exercise in Africa since WWII; but military and other operations in northern Africa are literally bringing the camel dung to hit American fans, courtesy of the trans-Atlantic Saharan dust storms. Robert Knight
06:00 Gaza Disengagement and the West Bank: Toufic Haddad, activist, writer
36:00 Music Break
37:00 1,000 Crosses in Crawford: Peter Dudar, producer of the documentary Arlington West, with the gathering crowd outside the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas
49:00 Update on 1,000 Crosses: Peter Dudar describes the arrival of the Veterans for Peace memorial and what will be happening on Thursday
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
In a dramatic, precedent-setting decision, a southern appellate court
overturned the life convictions of the Cuban Five; also, Gold Star
mother Cindy Sheehan faces arrest as she camps out at the Bush ranch,
we’ll ask Sheehan what she wants to talk to the President about;
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suspends drug fighting cooperation
with the US government, accusing the DEA of trafficking; and from exile
in Southern California, the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report:
More resistance throughout Iraq, but no progress on a Constitution.
Robert Knight07:00 Mother at Crawford Ranch: Cindy Sheehan, co-founder, Gold Star Families for Peace camped out at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas discusses her son's death in Iraq, her efforts to make his senseless death meaningful, and what she would say to Bush if he would meet with her. (Dennis Bernstein)
22:00 Music Break
23:00 Cuban 5 Trial: Overturned Sentences! Gloria La Riva and Leonard Weinglass, attorney
43:00 Chavez vs. the DEA: Gregory Wilpert, Venezuelanalysis.com
Monday, August 8, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
We commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki - the only use of nuclear weapons against a civilian
population in wartime. We'll feature an interview about a new
documentary called Original Child Bomb about the real impacts
of the bombing and how they were covered up for so many years. Also
we'll air The Road from Hiroshima, an award-winning dramatic
production by Marc Kaminsky based on survivor testimony from Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. And from exile in Southern California, we'll have the
Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: The US troop presence in Iraq will escalate before it is reduced for the 2006 elections; a NATO escalation is planned for the US occupation of Afghanistan, where the Bush administration wants to send prisoners from Guantanamo; India and Pakistan reach a nuclear agreement; Venezuela severs ties with the DEA; ABC news anchor Peter Jennings is dead at 67; major sandstorms bring Baghdad to a halt while Saharan dust storms deliver pesticides and red tides from West Africa to the Caribbean, Florida, the Gulf coast and as far west as California while the globe convenes to commemorate the mushroom clouds over Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Robert Knight
08:30 Original Child
Bomb: An interview
with Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, about the
misinformation campaign and coverup following the A-bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago. (Dennis Bernstein)The film Original Child Bomb is currently airing on Sundance channels across the country.
Also read At the 60th Anniversary: The Embedded 'New York Times' Reporter Who Brought Us the 'Atomic Age'
29:00 The Road From Hiroshima: An extraordinary dramatic production based on Marc Kaminsky's narrative poem, broadcast 20 years ago. This powerful performance also features original musical compositions. (Dennis Bernstein)
Friday, August 5, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Today,
we’ll feature a segment on activists who are risking their lives to
rescue migrants dying at an accelerating rate in the deserts as a
result of new policies by Homeland Security; also, a California
Assemblyman speaks out against the Governor’s special elections;
headlines from the region, and Flashpoints en Espanol with producers of
La Onda Bajita.
00:00 Introduction. Dennis, Miguel Molina, Francisco:
Terror and Teaching, poem, Pedro Reyes
07:00 Livermore Protest on Nuclear Weapons. Pedro Reyes
Saturday August 6th, 5pm. Free shuttle from BART.
17:00 El Tecolote. Eva Martinez
23:00 No More Deaths Campaign – Dying to Work
Evelyn Sanchez, Workplace Immigrant and Civil Rights Organizer with EBASE
35:00 Headlines from the Region. Miguel Guerrero
42:00 Flashpoints en Espanol: Spotlight on Bolivia
Miguel Guerrero with Luis Gomez
Thursday, August 4, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:A phony investigation
by the Haitian Coup Government accuses President
Aristide of absconding with fifty million dollars; meanwhile Haiti's
killing fields continue to claim the lives of Lavalas leaders and
supporters; plus a Congresswoman from Eastern Congo talks about her
country's struggle for self-determination in the face of IMF and World
Bank repression; news headlines from Palestine; and from exile in
southern California, the Knight Report01:00 The Knight Report: Resistance operations, death squads, and US incursions into Anbar cost two dozen more lives in Iraq; London's mayor says the war in Iraq is indeed a cause of terrorism; the ACLU is suing New York City for racial profiling and ineffective subway searches; there is turmoil in the new African oil nations of Mauritania and Sudan; and NATO promises to give the Bush Administration a break in the military occupation of Afghanistan. Robert Knight
07:00 Report on Haiti: The interim government is using false arrest and imprisonment to silence opposition voices and intimidate Lavalas supporters in the leadup to Haitian elections. UN killings of peaceful civilians continues unreported elsewhere. Read the letter from Father Gerard Jean-Juste and visit HaitiAction.org for more information about the situation in Haiti. Kevin Pina and Ira Kurzban
35:00 Music Break – “Incantations” Babatunde Olatunsi
36:00 Palestine Week in Review: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network
42:00 Congolese Congresswoman on the DRC: Rep. Jacqueline Bisimwa, Congresswoman, Eastern DRC
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Nearly two dozen US soldiers killed in the past 72 hours as the occupation and war rages on in Iraq, we’ll have a report from the ground in Baghdad; also, environmental racism meets military imperialism in Bay View-Hunter’s Point; plus, live excerpts from a one-man play written by Howard Zinn, author of the legendary People’s History of the United States; and from exile in Southern California, the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
14 Marines Killed in Iraq
08:00 Report from Baghdad
Dave Enders, correspondent, Free Speech Radio News
16:00 BayView-Hunter’s Point: Environmental Racism
Amanda Bellerby with Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai
28:00 Dramatic Presentation: Marx in SoHo. Jerry Levy, actor
August 4-6 at the Jon Sims Center for Performing Arts in SF
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: A report-back on the situation in Gaza as Israeli troops ready to lock down the strip into a prison camp for 1.5 million Palestinians; plus a round-table on the responsibility of journalists in this time of war - we'll be joined by Bob Parry and Dahr Jamail; and from exile in Malibu, the Knight Report.
01:00 Gaza and the “Disengagement”: Uda Walker, Political Education Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
16:00 Music Break – Adel Salameh –
Oud Instrumental17:00 Poetry in Times of War: Dennis Bernstein
22:00 Journalism in a Time of War: Bob Parry, investigative journalist, Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent, and Uda Walker, Political Education Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance, with listener call-ins
52:00 The Knight Report: Thirty-three Iraqis died today in resistance attacks involving mortars, car-bombs and a dead dog bomb which killed four in Balad. Robert Knight
Monday, August 1, 2005
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01:00 John Bolton
Marjorie Cohn, Executive Vice Pres., National Lawyer's Guild
08:00 Karl Rove. Wayne Slater, senior political writer, Dallas Morning News
18:00 Bush's Brain. Documentary Film
32:00 Break for KPFA fund drive