Archived Shows - August 2005

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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

41:00 Open Lines, Free Speech: Listener comments and questions

Saturday, September 24, National March in San Francisco Bring the Troops Home Now STOP the War on IRAQ Gather 11 a.m. Dolores Park End Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti... Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return Military Recruiters Out of Our Schools and Communities Stop the Racist, Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Labor Offensive at Home U.S. Out of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Afghanistan Stop the Threats Against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea Volunteers & Donations Needed! Call 415-821-6545 or join a Volunteer Meeting every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 2489 Mission St. #30 San Francisco

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Monday, August 29, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints:  Activists in El Paso call for the extradition of CIA asset and known terrorist Luis Posada Carilles; also, the Texas judicial death machine gets ready to execute another innocent victim in the name of Frances Newton; poet and historian Aurora Levins Morales reads poetry in a time of war; and the Knight Report.

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

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Friday, August 26, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.

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Thursday, August 25, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.
 

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

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Monday, August 22, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast

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

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Friday, August 19, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.

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Thursday, August 18, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.org
37:00 Music Break
38:00 Youth Voices from Palestine: Students of Radio 194

1. Maram Faraj, student of Ibdaa Radio 194
2. Mohammed Yahia, student of Ibdaa Radio 194

51:00 Voices from Crawford, Texas

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 

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)  

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

Saturday, September 24, National March in San Francisco Bring the Troops Home Now STOP the War on IRAQ Gather 11 a.m. Dolores Park End Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti... Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return Military Recruiters Out of Our Schools and Communities Stop the Racist, Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Labor Offensive at Home U.S. Out of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Afghanistan Stop the Threats Against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea Volunteers & Donations Needed! Call 415-821-6545 or join a Volunteer Meeting every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 2489 Mission St. #30 San Francisco

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Monday, August 15, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints:  We hear from Palestinian journalists and activists in the occupied Gaza strip and the West Bank about what the Gaza pullout means for the future of Palestine; is this is just another
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.

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Friday, August 12, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
00:00 Introduction.  Dennis, Miguel Molina, Francisco. Miguel Guerrero with regional headlines

10:00 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

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Thursday, August 11, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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

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Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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 Knight

07:00 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

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Monday, August 8, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
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)

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Friday, August 5, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast

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

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Thursday, August 4, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast (thanks to KPFA.org)
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 Report

01:00 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

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Wednesday, August 3, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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.


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

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Tuesday, August 2, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
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 Instrumental
17:00 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

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Monday, August 1, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints:  Bush goes through the back door with his United Nations appointment, is this one more big diversion from the Karl Rove scandal that might bring the entire administration down? Also, Bush’s Brain, we’ll feature an interview with one of the co-authors of the book and excerpts of the documentary film based on the book, Bush’s Brain, about how without Karl Rove, there would be no George W. Bush.

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