Archived Shows - July 2005
Friday, July 29, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: A special live edition broadcast from New College in the hear of San Francisco Mission District. A special report focuses on the 3rd Annual Assembly of Day Laborers in New York, with college Renee Salsado. An update on the killing fields in Haiti with Kevin Pina. Discussion on the documentary "A Place Called Chiapas". Headlines from the region, guest host Francisco Heurera.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: A new documentary about the US Government's coverup of US Military deaths and serious injuries; also tonight, poets stand up for soldiers who refuse to serve - we'll hear about a special benefit; and a summary of the week's news from occupied Palestine.
01:00 Palestine News Summary: With all eyes on the Gaza withdrawal plans, Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem in a continuing program to seize, isolate and secure Jerusalem for Israelis. Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network
05:30 Words Against War: US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman was denied Conscientious Objector status and scheduled for Court Martial for refusing to return to occupied Iraq. Activist and organizer David Solnet discusses ways to support military personnel who speak against the occupation in Iraq. Amanda Bellerby
10:30 Arlington West: Excerpts from a new documentary exploring the reactions and stories of visitors to the Santa Barbara community project started by Veterans for Peace as a memorial for US soldiers who have died in Iraq. Nora Barrows-Friedman
24:00 KPFA Fund Drive: Dennis Bernstein and Nora Barrows-Friedman
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Kevin Pina joins us for an update on Father Jean Juste who is in his fifth day of isolation in Haiti's National Penitentiary. An uupdate on the Draconian Trade Plan called CAFTA. A dialogue with Flashpoints producers on Free Speech in times of War and Struggle. And from Exile, the Robert Knight Report.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Our special correspondent Dahr Jamail on media complicity in US war
crimes in Iraq; also, an update on the life and death situation
surrounding the jailing of Haitian priest and pro-democracy leader
Father Gerard Jean Juste; and from exile in New York, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Diplomats and water workers are under attack in Iraq, where the proposed constitution has taken a Fundamentalist turn; and the bomb investigations continue in Egypt and London. Robert Knight
06:00 Dahr
Jamail Reports-Back:
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, www.dahrjamailiraq.com30:00 Brief Update on Father Gerard Jean Juste: Bill Quigley
Also visit HaitiAction.net for more information.
35:00 KPFA Fund Drive
Monday, July 25, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Father Gerard Jean Juste still being held in isolation at the Haitian National Penitentiary, neither his Bishop nor his attorney has been allowed to see him; a background briefing on the Egyptian bombing, the Iraq occupation and the twin tinderboxes of Beirut and Palestine; plus, Israel prepares to close the gate on the big prison of Gaza, we'll hear from professor Ilan Pappe on the Israeli plan for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians; and from exile, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: An innocent Brazilian electrician was shot in the back, then held down by Scotland Yard and London metro police on each arm, while a third pumped seven more bullets directly into his cranium -- under the instruction of Israeli intelligence. That same Israeli policy, codenamed "Operation Kratos," has now been inculcated into the police forces of New York, Los Angeles, Washington - and 25,000 more police in other American cities... Robert Knight
Father Jean-Juste performs funeral ceremony for Sanel Joseph in Cite Soleil on June 2, 2005.
Sanel Joseph's son is passed over his father's casket during the funeral.
Photo: ©2005 Haiti Information Project
06:00 Update on Haiti and Father Gerard Jean Juste: Bill Quigley, Pierre Labossiere and Brian Concannon - haitiaction.net
20:00 Music Break
21:00 Bombings in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine: As'ad Abu-Khalil, professor of political science, CSU Stanislaus; webmaster, http://angryarab.blogspot.com
37:00 Gaza, the Disengagement, and Israeli Policy: Dr. Ilan Pappe, Senior Lecturer of Political Science, University of Haifa
Friday, July 22, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)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.
01:00 Introduction. Dennis, Miguel Molina, Francisco
UFW Collage – Live Introduction by Gavilan. Miguel Guerrero with regional headlines .
10:00 Cuba Bus Detained at US-Mexico Border.
Alicia Jrapko, ANSWER Coalition
Ellen Bernstein, associate director, Pastors for Peace
With Lucious Walker, Father Luis Barrios
19:00 Song Break
20:00 Father Gerard Jean-Juste: Breaking News
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints special correspondent in Washington DC
Bill Quigley, attorney for Fr. Jean Juste
30:00 Anti-Nuclear Coalition: Commemorating August 6th.
Tara Darabji, Seeds of Change, Tri-Valley CARE
40:00 Commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina. M.G. Molina
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol: Bolivia Focus. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, July 21
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Today on Flashpoints:
Legendary Haitian pro-democracy leader Father Gerard Jean Juste beaten
at a funeral for slain journalist Jacques Roche and then detained by
Haitian police, we’ll have a report from Port-au-Prince, we’ll be
joined by Kevin Pina in the studio and we’ll hear a report on this day
of international protest against UN participation in Haiti’s killing
fields; also, a weekly report from the Palestine News Network and a
report-back from a special guest on her return home from Palestine; and
from exile, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
07:00 Update on Haiti and Father Gerard Jean Juste: Kevin Pina, Pierre Labossiere and Bill Quigley www.haitiaction.net
37:00 Palestine News Network’s Week in Review: Kristen Ess, editor, PNN
47:00 Report-back from Palestine: Anita Barrows, psychologist, poet
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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(thanks to KPFA.org)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.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Multi City International Protest on Haiti.
Round Table Discussion. Bill Quigley,
Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
20:00 Music Break - “Resistance” - So Anne
22:00 Flashpoints Special Correspondent Kevin Pina
Dave Welsh and Seth Donelly of the Haiti Action Committee.
45:00 Earth Matters. Amanda Bellerby
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Major invasions by Israel across the West Bank, at least two people are
already dead; plus, Ken Lay, CEO of Enron and close Bush contributor,
finally comes to trial, but will he really be prosecuted? Medicinal
marijuana activist takes his own life rather than face hard jail time,
we'll remember him and talk about the status of medicinal marijuana;
and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Half the Sunni members of occupied Iraq's constitutional commission have quit or been killed as Shia and Kurds rush to establish secular militias and oil autonomy; al Qaida demands the withdrawal of European occupiers from Iraq, or, they say, the war will be taken from Mesopotamia to the streets of Europe; the sweltering summer of Iraqi resistance continued to rage with two dozen more deaths added to the nearly 200 since the weekend; and amid echos of the Tet offensive, the commander of the ill-fated US occupation of Vietnam, General William Westmoreland, is dead at the age of 91. Robert Knight
06:00 Israel Invades and Kills, Palestinians Fight Each Other: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network
24:00 Enron: Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen
44:00 Music Break - "Burn One Down" - Ben Harper
45:00 Medical Marijuana in the Crosshairs: Stephanie Sherer, Hillary McQuie, Americans for Safe Access Rebbeca Saltsman, Field Coordinator
Monday, July 18, 2005
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imed the lives of over
150 people in Iraq; plus, Father
Gerard Jean Juste under attack in Haiti; Israel amasses at the border
for a siege against Gaza; and Barbara Lubin reports back from occupied
Palestine.01:00 Report on Haiti. Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
With report from Father Gerard Jean Juste. Bill Quigley & Lucy Tondreau
23:00 Music Break
24:00 Over 150 Die in Iraq.
Patrick Cockburn, journalist with Independent of London, in Baghdad
35:00 Israeli Attacks in Gaza. Mohammed Ali, FP Special Correspondent in Gaza City
46:00 Report-back on Palestine. Barbara Lubin, Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Friday, July 15, 2005
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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.
00:01 Intro.Dennis, Miguel Molina, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero
00:02 Music Break - Francisco .
07:00 Father Gerard Jean-Juste: Breaking News. Kevin Pina, Flashpoints special correspondent
15:00 Minutemen Update.
Maria Poblet, Luis Herrera, Deportena la Migra
24:00 UFW Report.
Roberto Garcia, Sonoma Country United Farmworkers
21:00 Military Recruitment in San Francisco
Todd Chretien, College not Combat
40:00 Commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina.
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, July 14, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
As Palestinians continue to live in fear of settlers and the military
in Gaza, Israelis execute a Palestinian resistance leader during an
interview with a reporter; an explosive new report on corporate giant
Alcoa’s attack on workers rights in Mexico and Central America; a
spirited protest against the killings from the people of Cite Soleil in
Haiti; Earth Matters explores deep ecology in an interview with John
Seed; and from exile, the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: A resistance attack at US headquarters in Baghdad's Green Zone; calls for investigation after two dozen Sunni die in police custody; Sunni and Shia tensions are rising in Iraq; an alleged leader of al Qaeda is arrested in the killing of an Egyptian diplomat; and London police drop more details in their bombing investigation. Robert Knight
06:00 Report from Demonstration in Cite Soliel: Kevin Pina with a journalist in Port-au-Prince describing another attack by UN forces on impoverished Haitians today which killed more women and children. Thousands of residents protested throughout the day. Also visit the websites of the HaitiAction Committee and Haiti Progres for more information.
12:00 Palestine Report: Uda Walker, political education director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
27:00 Music Break
28:00 CAFTA and Mexican Worker’s Rights: Charles Kernigan, National Labor Committee. Send a letter to your Congressman to express you views on CAFTA. Dennis Bernstein
46:00 Earth Matters: A discussion with John Seed about 'Deep Ecology'. Amanda Bellerby
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
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D'load (thanks to KPFA.org)Today on Flashpoints: Bloody wars, occupation and internal conflicts on three different continents take a terrible toll on women and children; we will feature reports from Kenya, Iraq, and Northern Ireland and we’ll hear from the legendary pro-democracy leader Father Gerard Jean Juste from a protest in Miami against the slaughter of the women and children in Cite Soleil in Haiti; and from exile, the Knight Report.
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
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
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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.
Monday, July 11, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: One year after the
International Court of Justice declares Israel’s apartheid wall
illegal, an Israeli security guard shoots dead a fifteenyear old boy
tending to his grapes near the wall in the West Bank; also, legendary
filmmaker John Pilger on the implications of what he calls Blair’s
Bombs, the war on Iraq and the failure of the G8 summit; part two of
our special in-depth look at Africa’s debt with Africa Action’s
Executive Director Salih Booker; and from exile, the Knight Report.
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
Monday, July 11, 2005
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Friday, July 8, 2005
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of Flashpoints, we broadcast from the New College of California in the
heart of the San Francisco Mission District. We’ll have a
report-back on a bold action taken by immigrants rights activists in Sacramento this
week; also, we’ll look at how the Zapatistas are counteracting
Free Trade with non-GMO corn; we’ll hear headlines from the region, a commentary
from roving producer Miguel Gavilan Molina, and of course, Flashpoints
en Espanol..
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
Thursday, July 7, 2005
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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
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
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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 ...
Deadly day in Iraq,
Egypt's ambassador-designate is under death threat...
Al Qaeeda launches a new Sunni-based brigade to combat the Shia-based Badr Brigades... and
Sen. Carl Levin asks Iraq's puppet regime to "ventriloquate" a formal request for more US occupation.
Al Qaeeda launches a new Sunni-based brigade to combat the Shia-based Badr Brigades... and
Sen. Carl Levin asks Iraq's puppet regime to "ventriloquate" a formal request for more US occupation.
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.
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
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(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
Monday, July 4, 2005
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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
Friday, July 1, 2005
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We’ll speak with immigrants
rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez
about the Dream Act; a local Mission District shopowner and
entrepreneur who specializes in crafts and goods from Chiapas and other
areas in Mexicotalks about the importance of supporting the work of
Zapatistas and transcending the
brutalities of free trade; plus, immigrants
rightsattorney Rene Saucedo speaks about frontline battles to protect
immigrant laborers from street-level attacks and governmental
oppression; a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina; and Flashpoints en
Espanol.
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