Archived Shows - July 2005

Today on Flashpoints: Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the heart of the San Francisco Mission District! Pastors for Peace, bus-bound for Cuba, taken into custody by Homeland Security, we’ll speak to people on the bus; also, Father Gerard Jean Juste faces trumped-up charges on the murder of a Haitian journalist; commemorating the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and preventing another nuclear holocaust; We’ll hear headlines from the region, a commentary from roving producer Miguel Gavilan Molina, and of course, Flashpoints en Espanol.

Today on Flashpoints:  Today on Flashpoints, Protest planned around the world tomorrow against the US sponsored killing fields in Haiti; We’ll feature reports from Haiti, and a round table discussion on the ongoing massacres there with members of a recent fact finding tour: and on this week’s edition of earth matters, we speak with Green-Peace Russia about lingering toxic wastes from the Soviet Era: and the Knight Report.

Today on Flashpoints:  Today on a special live edition of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the heart of the San Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a special report on the vigilantes who call themselves Minutemen; we’ll also report on the arrest of legendary pro-democracy Haitian leader Father Gerard Jean Juste; the UFW takes on Gallo Wines; we’ll be joinedby those working to purge campuses of military recruiters; we’ll hear headlines from the region, a commentary from roving producer Miguel Gavilan Molina, and of course, Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Knight Report

04:00 Carnage in Baghdad. Patrick Cockburn, journalist, Independent of London

20:00 Music break – “Jacob’s Ladder”

22:00 Massacre on Schoolchildren in Kenya
Njoki Njehu, Director, Solidarity Action Committee in Nairobi

30:00 Response to Murders in Haiti. Father Gerard Jean-Juste, in the streets of Miami at protest

40:00 Music Break - “Resistance” - So Anne

42:00 Report on the North of Ireland. Father Aidan Troy, Parish Priest in North Belfast

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Infants, women and children massacred in Haiti, we’ll speak to our special correspondent Kevin Pina about the killings; plus, we’ll take a look at Bush’s Brain as his chief advisor Karl Rove faces ten years in federal prison, and we’ll find out what you think about Bush’s Brain ,or lack thereof, with your phone calls; and from exile, the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Fast-breaking developments in the London attacks, and still more bombings today in Lebanon, Israel, Spain and Iraq. Robert Knight
07:00 Karl Rove: Rosa Brooks, law professor at the University of Virginia, and LA Times columnist, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, dissects the legal issues facing Karl Rove and the potential damage to national security.
Read the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50USC421)
20:00 Karl Rove Continued: Louis Dubose, author, journalist, former editor of the Texas Observer and Bob Parry, investigative journalist, editor ConsortiumNews.com
45:00 Music Break
47:00 Update on Haiti: Massacres in the Streets of Cite Soleil - Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent interviewed in studio by Dennis Bernstein, reports on eyewitness accounts of murders and the aftermath of the brutal UN attack targeting unarmed women and children. Visit HaitiAction.net for more information and to read the latest accounts.

Also don't miss Kevin Pina's report-back on the UN-sponsored violence in Haiti at the Unitarian Universalist Hall at Cedar and Bonita in Berkeley next Tuesday, July 19 at 7PM.

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Monday, July 11, 2005 Listen D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)


01:00 Knight Report

07:00 One Year after ICJ Ruling, Israel Kills 15 year-old Boy at Apartheid Wall
Jamal Juma’, coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign in the West Bank

22:00 Music Break – Marcel Khalife: “Children and the Wolf”

24:00 John Pilger on Iraq, London and the G8
John Pilger, award-winning filmmaker, journalist

44:00 Music Break – Baaba Maal: “Dande Lenol”

45:00 Africa at the G8: Part Two
Salih Booker, Executive Director, Africa Action

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Monday, July 11, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Audio links not active until 6:30pm Monday

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Friday, July 8, 2005 Listen D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)

07:00 Report from Immigrant’s Rights Protest and the DREAM Act
Rene Saucedo, attorney with La Clinica Legal de la Raza

Music Break

18:00 Corn, Zapatistas and GMOs in Mexico
Nancy Charraga, Mission District shop owner and journalist Ryan, GMO expert

40:00 Commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Guerrero with Quetzalcoatl Fontanot

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Thursday, July 7, 2005 Listen D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: Noted author and novelist Tariq Ali on today’s multiple bombings in Britain; we’ll also feature an account from street level on one of the bombings; plus, we hear from an eyewitness to yesterday’s slaughter in the streets of Cite Soleil in Haiti; we’ll take a look at Africa in the context of the G8, will today’s bombings give Bush and Blair another chance to turn their back on Africa? We’ll hear from Starhawk at the eco-village outside of the G8 talks in Edinburgh; and from exile, the Knight Report.



01:00 The Knight Report: Al Qaida strikes in London, hit by a Madrid-style bomb attack today.
Denmark and Italy receive warnings. Robert Knight
Animation link - US bombing raids in Iraq: www.obleek.com
 05:00 Political Fallout: Tariq Ali, author and historian
23:00 London Explosions: Omar Waraich, eyewitness to bombings
32:00 Eyewitness to Massacre in Cite Soleil, Haiti: Seth, filmmaker, activist with Haiti Action Committee in Cite Soleil
38:00 Africa and the G8 in the Context of London Bombings: Salih Booker, Executive Director, Africa Action – www.africaaction.org
51:00 Report from Scotland G8 Protests: Starhawk, activist

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Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints:  Another Lavalas leader gunned down in Cite Soleil, also on the Haitian front, international activists petition the US and Haitian officials for the release of legendary Haitian folk singer Annette Auguste; plus, a California Senator flips the script again and joins the Republicans again in support of CAFTA; Miguel Molina reports from Sacramento on a protest for immigrant rights; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report.  New developments in the Bush administration's CIA ID scandal, and more problems for minister of propaganda Karl Rove - and the NYT reporter who channeled him... Chile's Gen. Agosto Pinochet has acquired immunity deficiency syndrome for his 1975 purge ...

07:00 Report from Haiti. David Welsh, activist and volunteer with Haiti Action Network. From  Port-au-Prince Sasha Kramer, coordinator  Haiti Action Network,  in-studio Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent.

36:00 Music Break – “No More Excuses for War” – Boukman Eksperyans

37:00 Free Trade and CAFTA Deborah James, in-studio, Global Economy Director of Global Exchange

52:00 Music Break – “Sold Down the River” by Larry Shaw

53:00 Protests at California Capitol for Immigrants’ Rights. Miguel Gavilan Molina

57:00 Kevin Pina Event on Haiti. Appearance in the Bay Area.

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Tuesday, July 5, 2005 Listen D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)

Photo: Thony Belizaire, AFP 

Today on Flashpoints: Life and death stories from Haiti as our special correspondent returns to the studio for a report back on the worsening situation in one of the poorest countries in the world; also, three diplomats and two wounded in the last three days of fighting in Iraq, we'll feature an in-depth discussion of where the war and occupation is now and where it's going; plus, will the Republicans try and jam John Bolton through for a backdoor recess appointment, a look at the expanding war in Colombia; and from exile, the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: The Bush administration precision-bombs a civilian compound in Afghanistan, killing as many Afghans as the number of US Special Forces lost in last week's Taliban shoot-down of a rescue helicopter; two members of the lost Navy Seal team that prompted the abortive attempt are dead, with one recovered from sanctuary with a tribal leader; Britain is preparing to shift troops to Afghanistan from Iraq; the Iraqi resistance targets foreign diplomats cooperating with the US occupation, and denies reports of new mergers and PR appointments; for the third time in a row former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet suffers yet another alleged stroke one day before his hearing on his prosecutorial immunity syndrome; and the torture-tolerant US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales celebrated the Fourth of July in what he thinks is the free and democratic Iraq. Robert Knight

07:00 Report from Haiti: Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in-studio
21:00 Music Break - "Resistance" - So Anne
22:00 Chaos and Carnage in Iraq: Rahul Mahajan, author, Full Spectrum Dominance, www.empirenotes.org, and Larry Everest, author, Oil, Power and Empire
37:00 Music Break - "Bond For Glory" - Nate Mezmer
38:00 Colombia & John Bolton: Paul Pazynino

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Monday, July 4, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)
Today on Flashpoints: We re-broadcast a special investigation into the autism-mercury link with Robert Kennedy Jr., he'll explain the massive coverup by US Congressmen, the CDC and the FDA, intimidated and paid off by big pharmeceutical companies, to inject our children with high levels of mercury in childhood vaccines; also, we'll hear from a psychologist and a mother of an 11-year old autistic child as she talks about her fight against the US government; and an update on how to fight military recruitment in our public schools and college campuses.

01:00 Autism, Mercury and Big Pharmeceutical's Coverup: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Senior Attorney at National Resources Defense Council (originally broadcast Tuesday, June 28, 2005)
31:00 Music Break
32:00 Autism in the Family: Dr. Sarah Bridges, biological psychologist (originally broadcast Tuesday, June 28, 2005)
48:00 Music Break
51:00 Military Recruitment Update: Brian Cruz, CollegeNotCombat.org

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Friday, July 1, 2005 Listen D'load  (thanks to KPFA.org)

01:00 The “DREAM” Act. Juan Jose Gutierrez, Part of campaign to “Dump Arnold”

14:00 Music Break

15:00 Zapatistas Trenscending Free Trade
Nancy Charraga, Mission District shopowner and journalist

28:00 The Driver’s Certificate
Rene Saucedo, attorney for La Clinica Legal de la Raza

40:00 Commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol. Miguel Guerrero