Archived Shows - September 2005

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Friday, September 30, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Immigrants rights activists call for a boycott against Greyhound Buses
for their dangerous, extra-legal collaboration with Homeland Security; also, the Presbyterian Church USA speaks out about border violence; the fight to name the Berkeley Post Office after legendary civil rights activist Maudelle Shirek; comic-activist Randy Credico, featured in the new film 60 Spins Around the Sun; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol also hones in on the Greyhound strike.

01:00 Introduction. Regional Headlines                                                                                              Immigrant Rights: Boycott Greyhound
Dennis, Miguel Guerrero

05:00  Immigrants’ Rights Under Attack
Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator of General Assembly, Presbyterian Church USA
Juan Jose Gonzales, activist, immigrant rights

24:00 Maudelle Shirek Dishonored in Congress
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California
Barbara Lubin, Exec. Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Max Anderson, Berkeley City Councilmember

35:00 Sixty Spins Around the Sun: Randy Credico
Randy Credico, stand-up comedian and civil rights activist
Film playing this Sunday at World Film Festival

42:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Guerrero, Juan Jose Gutierrez

Thursday, September 29, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Remembering the bloody 1965 CIA coup forty years ago today in Indonesia; also, House speaker Tom Delay steps down after being indicted for interfering in Texas State elections; news headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues its siege against Gaza; immigrants rights activists call for a boycott of Greyhound Bus because of their alleged racism against immigrants; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Tom Delay Indicted: Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen

16:00 40-Year Anniversary of Indonesia’s Massacre: Sylvia Tiwon, UC Berkeley Professor
46:00 Palestine News Headlines – Gaza Under Siege: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network

Direct Action to Free Haiti! Tomorrow, Friday 9/30/2005 8:00AM at the San Francisco Federal Building An international day of solidarity for the Haitian people That’s tomorrow at the SF Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate at Larkin starting at 8am.

MECA’s NORMAN FINKELSTEIN EVENT!!! Thursday, October 6th at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1645 Addison St. in Berkeley, 7:30pm, $20. Go to www.mecaforpeace.org for tickets and info. Also, Flashpoints will be airing an in-depth interview with Norman Finkelstein on Monday. Be sure to stay tuned for that!

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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Israeli occupation forces tightened the screws on Gazan’s, opening fire on civilian neighborhoods with helicopter gun ships and deafening aerial percussion bombs, while arresting over three hundred in sweeps through the West Bank; And A tribunal on Haiti condemns the US sponsored coup there and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report : Lynndie England gets three
years for Abu Ghraib; Tom Delay gets Amnesty calls for an investigation into the FBI murder of a Puerto Rican patriot; International scholars say Iraqi resistance is more patriotic than fanatic, and call for direct talks with al Qaeeda – But George W. Bush sticks to his guns, warning that Iraq is gonna get worse before it gets worse.
                          
08:00 An Update on Haiti
Kevin Pina, Special Flashpoints Correspondent

20:00 Music Break - Resistance - So Anne

21:00 Ben Terrel, Haiti Action Net
Judith Scherr,Independent Journalist
Tom Griffin, Attorney and Investiagtor
Brian Concannon, Human Rights Lawyer

42:00 Israeli Continues Gaza Attacks
Ali Abunima, electronicintifada

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes continue to slam missiles into the occupied Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Kristen Ess about the latest from Palestine, with Uda Walker on the connections concerning the economic strangleholds and the systems of apartheid in Palestine and between the US and Mexico; plus, pro-independence activist Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by the FBI in Puerto Rico; a poem by Suheir Hammad; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight

06:00 Israel Continues Gaza Attacks:

40:00 Music Break

42:00 The Political Assasination of Filiberto Ojeda Rios in Puerto Rico: Deborah Santana, Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, activist

52:00 Music Break

54:00 Poetry at DC Antiwar Protest: Suheir Hammad, Palestinian-American poet, www.suheirhammad.com

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Monday, September 26, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Ariel Sharon orders a continuous attack against Gaza, at least four Palestinians are already dead and many are wounded, including children attacked by a missile fired on their classroom; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the ongoing killing fields of Iraq; plus, in a day of civil disobedience in Washington DC, Cindy Sheehan is arrested outside the White House while others are rounded up after blocking entrances to the Pentagon; we’ll feature speeches from the massive antiwar protests in DC and San Francisco;
and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report  

06:00 Israeli Air Strikes Against Gaza
Mohammed Ali, FP Correspondent in Gaza City

18:00 Killing Fields of Iraq
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent in DC;

30:00 Music Break

30:00 Protest and Actions in Washington DC
Andrea Buffa, Global Exchange, Frida Berrigan, War Resisters League

38:00 Voices from the DC and SF Protests
Cindy Sheehan, Maxine Waters, Ramsey Clark, Khader Hamadeh

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Friday, September 23, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We’re back at New College of California in a continuing live collaboration in the Mission District, on the eve of tomorrow’s antiwar march in San Francisco! We’ll have a report from a ghost town called Houston as Texans continue to flee Rita, we’ll hear from Houston and New Orleans where the levees are failing and the streets are flooding again; noted educational critic Jonathan Kozol on apartheid in America’s schools; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro, News headlines: DennisBernstein, Miguel Guerrero, Francisco Herrera, Juan Carlos, Akua Holt, KPFT Programmer
20:00 Live Music Break - Francisco Herrera
25:00 More Headlines: Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Guerrero
29:00 Apartheid Schooling in America: Jonathan Kozol, author, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
38:00 Peace Rally Weekend: Richard Becker, International ANSWER (SF) and Miguel Molina
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol: Miguel Guerrero

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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Thursday, September 22, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Putting the Bush Adnministration on trial for torture, abuse and multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions; we'll talk with Jennifer Harbury about her new book Truth, Torture and the American Way, and her plans this weekend in Washington, DC for holding a mock tribunal and presenting evidence against the Administration for torture and high crimes; also we'll have a report from Texas on the million-plus people fleeing from hurricane Rita; we'll have news headlines from Palestine; plus, activists prepare to take on the military recruiting headquarters in Oakland; and the Knight Report.

01:30 The Knight Report: President Bush holds a press conference on the hurricane and on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robert Knight

06:30 The Continuing US Program of Torture: Jennifer Harbury, author, Truth, Torture & The American Way

36:00 Update on Hurricane Rita: Renee Feltz, KPFT News Director

42:30 Week in Review: Palestine Headlines: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.pnn.ps

48:00 Rally In Oakland Against Military Recruiters: Simon Hanukai, performer, People Power Can End the Occupation, www.couragetoresist.org, www.destinyarts.org

53:00 Song: Judith Kate Friedman, musician

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nationally-noted poet Sharon Olds refuses to break bread with First Lady Laura Bush at the National Book Festival; we replay our recent interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway; and the Knight Report.


01:00 Knight Report:  Five Iraqis are dead in the aftermath of the British raid in Basra, where local authorities demand an apology, while Iraq's socalled rime minister swears fealty to the UK, which insists it will remain in Iraq; Saddam Hussein defies what his lawyers say is a illegitimate trial set for next month; and we examine the clandestine mandate of Britain's Special Reconnaissance Regiment in Iraq.


06:00 Refusing to Break Bread with Laura Bush
Sharon Olds, poet

20:00 Music Break – P to the P – Michael Franti

22:00 George Galloway Speaks on Iraq, Palestine and Bush
George Galloway, British MP, author, Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: British troops make war on their Iraqi allies, killing a number of US-trained police, we’ll examine why; also, tracking the vigilantes at the US-Mexico border; a hearing on the latest police shooting of an innocent youth in BayView-Hunters Point; Books Not Bars calls for an alternative to incarceration and more support for our youth; an update on the nationwide antiwar protest scheduled for this weekend; even in the face of an oncoming hurricane, Cuban doctors still being prevented from meeting the needs of desperate flood victims in the US; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Bomb-laying Britons busted and broken out in Basra belie British claims of a kinder and gentler occupation in "sovereign" Iraq

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Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan is shaken but unarrested in New York's Union Square, where a Green Party activist was arrested for using a loudspeaker to protest police denial of an anti-war rally permit. Robert Knight

06:00 Iraq and the Ongoing Occupation: As’ad Abu-Khalil, professor, CSU Stanislaus; webmaster, angryarab.blogspot.com

20:00 September 24th March and Rally in SF: Richard Becker, International Answer Coalition (SF)
Volunteers & Donations Needed!
Call 415-821-6545
24:00 Music Break - War - Bob Marley

25:00 US Refuses Cuba Aid in Katrina Relief Efforts: Gloria LaRiva, activist

34:00 SFPD Shoots Teenager in the Back: Mesha Irizarri, founder, Idriss Stelley Foundation, writer with SF Bay View Newspaper

41:00 Books Not Bars: Jay Imani, Ella Baker Center and Books Not Bars

51:00 Photographer at the US-Mexico Border: Francisco Dominguez, photographer/artist


Please join Books Not Bars and Van Jones for: “SPIRIT OF FREEDOM: Honoring the Families of Incarcerated Children.” THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 7-9 PM First Congregational Church in Oakland, 27th and Harrison For more information or to RSVP, call Monet at 510-428-3939 x 228 or email her at monet@ellabakercenter.org

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Monday, September 19, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  A special report on the profound psychological impact of the flood on the poorest people of Louisiana; also, we continue our series of poets in a time of war, with the visionary teaching work of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report.
Robert Knight

06:00 Report on New Orleans.
Kevin Weston, editor, Youth Outlook,
correspondent for Pacific News Service

18:00 Seeing Annie Sullivan: Poetry
Denise Bergman, poet

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Friday, September 16, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own community after being abandoned by the Federal government; plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales; how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years of our sister show La Onda Bajita;and Flashpoints en Español.

01:00 Report from New Orleans’ Common Ground Health Clinic
Scott Weinstein, registered Nurse

09:00 Poetry Through the Floodwaters
Aurora Levins-Morales, FP Poet-on-Assignment

21:00 Stop Military Recruiters from Harvesting Our Kids!
Aimee Allison, Conscientious Objector Counselor, activist

30:00 La Onda Bajita 25th Anniversary Celebration
Miguel Gavilan Molina and Dennis Bernstein

42:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero

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Thursday, September 15, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A free-wheeling interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway on Iraq, Palestine, the New Orleans flood, Christopher Hitchens and the criminal Bush administration; a report from the field in Louisiana about the poor communities that have been abandoned by the Feds; a roundup of weekly headlines from occupied Palestine; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
05:00 George Galloway: on War, Occupation, Palestine and the Bush Junta. George Galloway, British MP for East London
More about Galloway's book at rense.com
40:00 Dispatch from Aftermath Region: Kevin Weston, Editor-in-Chief, Youth Outlook; contributor to Pacific News Service
52:00 Music Break – When It's Sleeping Time Down South - Louis Armstrong
54:00 News Headlines from Occupied Palestine: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.pnn.ps

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We’ll hear from our Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina, who was released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; over 114 dead in Iraq after a series of car bombs, and many more killed in a US attack on Tal Afar, we’ll speak with Robert Fisk about the latest slaughter; plus, assessing the environmental catastrophe in New Orleans; as the state of Texas plans to murder another black woman at midnight tonight, activists are mobilized to save the life of Frances Newton; and Laila el-Haddad talks about Palestinians reuniting with their families across the Gaza-Egypt border after decades of separation.

00:01 Kevin Pina Out of Jail Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent in Haiti

16:00 Massacres in Iraq. Robert Fisk, award-winning reporter for Independent of London

32:00 Environmental Disaster in New Orleans
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor

46:00 Frances Newton Scheduled to be Executed
DeLloyd, executive director, SHAPE Community Center, Free Frances Newton Committee

52:00 Crossing over the Gaza-Egypt Border. Laila el-Haddad, journalist,  http://www.a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ (view pictures of Gaza and read her blog)

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Coverage of the John Roberts Hearings: Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky, WBAI's Deepa Fernandes, and Free Speech Radio News' Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitch Jeserich anchor with live news reports on breaking stories from New Orleans. (Mitch Jeserich, Deepa Fernandes, Larry Bensky)

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Monday, September 12, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also, we’ll have a special update on the situation in New Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report, we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila el-Haddad talks about a ghost town becoming a playground in Gaza; and the Knight Report.

01:00 Knight Report

06:00 Kevin Pina Out of Jail.
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent in Haiti

14:00 Report from New Orleans
 Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist, producer with Democracy Now!

34:00 Fred Hampton, Jr. in Mississippi. JR and Rashida, the Block Report

5:42 Music Break

43:00 Gaza, the Settlements and Israeli Policy. Laila el-Haddad, journalist,

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Friday, September 09, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina arrested by death squad police and facing grave danger; also, we return to the wreckage of the South, asFEMA’s chief is sacked for incompetency, we’ll have a report from ouremergency correspondent Malik Rahim, who is spearheading a grassroots initiative to return infrastructure, medical services and human rights to the area; plus, a flood update from Mississippi; Cuba’s response to the tragedy; a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina; andFlashpoints en Español.

5:01 Update from New Orleans.
Malik Rahim -- To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org

16:00 Kevin Pina Arrested
Marguerite Leurent, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Council

31:00 Report from Mississippi
Duncan Campbell, reporter, UK Guardian

40:00 Commentary.Miguel Gavilan Molina

43:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero

CALL THE U.S. EMBASSY IN PORT AU PRINCE TO FREE KEVIN PINA AND COLLEAGUES:

011-509-222-0200
011-509-222-0354
011-509-223-4711

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We’ll go back down South for an update on the situation as well as to Houston for an update around the Astrodome and in the city, we’ll also feature a collage of people picking up the slack left by Bush and the feds and trying to meet the needs of tens of thousands pushed out of their homes; we’ll hear a brand-new poem by Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad; and from exile, the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight

 06:00 Notes from New Orleans: Jordan Flaherty, editor, Left Turn Magazine, Union Organizer Tish Stringer, Indymedia Houston

40:00 Grand Lake Theater Donations: sound collage by Nora Barrows-Friedman, with Dennis Bernstein

53:00 Poetry: Suheir Hammad, poet, www.suheirhammad.com


To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org

Read Bill Hackwell's account of experiences with the ANSWER delegation relief effort (FP 09/06/05)

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government has vetoed a
crucial microtransmitter radio project for the Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be doing, re-establishing infrastructure in parts of flooded New Orleans; plus, we’ll speak with Makani Themba-Nixon of the Praxis Project on her view on the federal breakdown and her call for a real investigation into the tragic abandonment of black people in this country; sounds from a protest today at UC Berkeley; and from exile, the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report. Robert Knight

06:00 Federal Government Denies
Radio Project Access to Astrodome
Tish Stringer, Houston Indymedia Camp Katrina aftermath media project at the AstroDome.

14:00 Update. Malik Rahim. To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org

30:00 New Orleans Report. Laurie Solinsky,
retired respiration therapist.

43:00 Another Case of Government for Some.
Makani Themba-Nixon, thepraxisproject.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 

Photo: Eric Gay, AP  

Today on Flashpoints: Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over ten thousand, as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults thousands of victims still stranded inside the Astro-Dome - We'll have reports from New Orleans, Houston, and we’ll hear eye-witness accounts from those just back from the hardest hit areas: Also students protest Bush's racist response to the flood victims: We’ll also feature a report from Gaza where an Israeli tank opened fire on peaceful protesters: and from exile the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report: The Iraqi town of al Qaim is taken over by al Qaida as New Orleans continues to reel from the effects of al Katrina. Robert Knight

06:00 Hurricane Victims: Malik Rahim, San Francisco Bay View Reporter describes a goodwill and rescue mission in New Orleans.

20:00 Report from Houston: Akua Holt, KPFT News Reporter and Bill Hackwell of International ANSWER, provide first-hand accounts of refugees in the Houston Astrodome and the inadequate response from FEMA and the overly sensationalist media focus. Refugees are being dispersed around the country, displaced further and further from home and family. Some believe the intent is to prevent the poorest from returning.

39:00 Musical Break: Chuck D

42:00 Protests: Nia Amara, UCB student, and Bill Hackwell, International ANSWER

Emergency Protest: Support the People of New Orleans — San Francisco Wednesday, September 7, 12 p.m. UC Berkeley, Sproul Plaza Student Protest at Noon in Berkeley

Afternoon protest in SF Wednesday, September 7, 5 p.m. Powell & Market

Jobs//Inncome & Housing for All Displaced Families Real Relief—Yes!! Racism—No! Stop Racist Scapegoating of the Victims Jail the Real “Looters” — The Oil Co. Execs Money for People’s Needs, Not for War Stop Bush’s War Against the Poor At Home and Abroad

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) For more information, call 415-821-6545.

Also visit www.sparkplugfoundation.org for information on where to donate to aid flood victims

50:00 Palestine : Laila Haddad, Special Flashpoints correspondent discusses attacks on Palestinians in Gaza (Nora Barrows-Friedman)

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Monday, September 05, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush administration; plus, a poem by Aurora Levins-Morales; and Daniel Ellsberg speaks about war, peace and resistance.

01:00 Voices from New Orleans

35:00 Poetry: Aurora Levins-Morales: "Silt of Each Other"

40:00 War, Whistleblowing and Resistance. Daniel Ellsberg

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Friday, September 2, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: The deliberate abandonment of hundreds of thousands of stranded Southerners left floating and hungry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we’ll feature a special report from the ground in New Orleans; plus, author and attorney Eva Golinger talks about her new, explosive book, The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela; we’ll also feature headlines from the region, and Flashpoints en Espanol, which will also feature Eva Golinger.

01:00 New Orleans: Headlines from the region.

05:00 Report from New Orleans. Malik Rahim, activist

30:00 On Venezuela, US Policy. Eva Golinger, investigative journalist

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol. Miguel Guerrero

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Thursday, September 1, 2005 Listen D'load Podcast 

Photo: REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Today on Flashpoints: We'll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge slaughter massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US occupation; we'll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we'll feature an interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its aftermath; and from exile in New York City, we'll have the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report: There is more chaos in New Orleans; a London bomber surfaces on videotape; Shi`a devotees bury their dead in Iraq; snd the Bush administration defends its murder of an Iraqi journalist. Robert Knight

06:00 The Slaughter Massacre on the Iraqui Bridge: As'ad Abu Khalil, Professor of Political Science at California State University, Stanislaus, and webmaster of AngryArab.blogspot.com. Also discussed is a recent NY Times Seymour Hersch article on US interference and bribes to solidify the Iraqi Constitution (Dennis Bernstein)


20:00 Musical Break

21:00 Louisiana National Guard Killing Stead of Saving Lives: Joe Ramsay, Military Families Speak Out discusses the relationship between US Imperialism and loss of services and security for the poor in the US.

Also read Greg Mitchell's article

 41:00 Michael Parenti on the Louisiana Hurricane: Author Michael Parenti discusses the free market politics of the hurricane where those who can afford to evacuate can buy their way out, but the poor are left to die; where protection of property is more important than rescuing victims of the tragedy. Where are the billions of dollars of homeland security aid? Where are the Feds? Overseas, overextended, overpriced...

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