Archived Shows - February 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
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Friday, February 24, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: In a major national protest,
the
National Day Laborer Network has organized a historical
cross-country run to call attention to the abuses against immigrant
workers in this country; we’ll also be talking about a major rally in
Oakland on immigrant and refugee rights; Professor Armando Navarro from the National
Alliance for Human Rights will speak about the fight to defend
immigrant rights and about the backlash activists now face in taking up
this cause; also, ancient Mayan translations of poetry with John Curl;
headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Intro, Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Nora
Guillermo Mayer, Public Advocates, Inc.
19:00 Immigrants Rights
Rene Saucedo, Centro Legal de la Raza
Armando Navarro, prof of Political Science at UC Riverside –
30:00 Music Break – Soy Jornalero - Francisco Herrera
31:00 Palestine Update
36:00 Official Opening of Flash/Onda
Miguel Molina, Flashpoints Roving Producer/La Onda Bajita Executive Producer
38:00 Poetry. John Curl, poet, author, Ancient American Poets
43:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero with Guillermo Mayer and John Curl
01:00 Intro, Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Gavilan Molina, Nora
13:00 Report on The Other Campaign
Guillermo Mayer, Public Advocates, Inc.
19:00 Immigrants Rights
Rene Saucedo, Centro Legal de la Raza
Armando Navarro, prof of Political Science at UC Riverside –
30:00 Music Break – Soy Jornalero - Francisco Herrera
31:00 Palestine Update
36:00 Official Opening of Flash/Onda
Miguel Molina, Flashpoints Roving Producer/La Onda Bajita Executive Producer
38:00 Poetry. John Curl, poet, author, Ancient American Poets
43:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero with Guillermo Mayer and John Curl
Thursday, February 23, 2006
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Jarar Candola, an
experienced ambulance driver with the UPMRC,
was shot in the arm and leg and Ihab Mansour, a medical volunteer
working with the Palestinian scientific society, was shot in the head
and taken away by the Israeli soldiers.
http://www.balatacamp.net/website/balata.htm
was shot in the arm and leg and Ihab Mansour, a medical volunteer
working with the Palestinian scientific society, was shot in the head
and taken away by the Israeli soldiers.
http://www.balatacamp.net/website/balata.htm
Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli occupiers kill 8 more Palestinians in a brutal raid on the
Balata refugee camp in the West Bank - we'll have a report from that
camp; also, more damaging news on the NPR - Voice of America
collaboration; and a new EPA rule turns humans into lab rats for the
pesticide industry; and the Knight Report.01:30 The Knight Report (Robert Knight)
Nearly
200 are dead in
Iraq's sectarian crisis
New Cheney documents are reluctantly released
The Bush Administration is testing chemically exploded plutonium in Nevada
President Aristide prepares for a Haitian homecoming
New Cheney documents are reluctantly released
The Bush Administration is testing chemically exploded plutonium in Nevada
President Aristide prepares for a Haitian homecoming
06:00 West Bank Report
Brian
Mulvaney, ISM
volunteer, reports
from Balata
Refugee camp near Nablus in the West Bank, describes unarmed
Palestinians being hunted and killed by snipers after Israeli forces
sealed off and terrorized the camp with tanks, jeeps, bulldozers,
helicopters and F16s. Also targeted are relief rescue workers and
reporters shot and killed while the survivors face and live with
increasing terror and trauma daily.
23:30 Voice of NPR
Jeb
Sprague,
journalist and researcher reports on contact with NPR concerning the
work of Voice of America reporter Amelia
Shaw reporting on Haiti. When the violation of NPR policy
was widely reported last week, Shaw resigned from VOA. Many
question her objectivity in light of a history of propaganda reporting
for VOA. Read NPR's reply to
Jeb Sprague on FreeHaiti.net.
Listen to an excerpt of an interview from January 2005 which introduces
Shaw as a reporter for NPR and VOA.
35:30 Independent Media Infiltration by the State Department Propagandists
Anthony Fenton follows up on
yesterday's report on the so-called Haiti
Democracy Project representative quoted in USA Today as an
impartial elections observer. Also covered is Haiti Democracy Project's
welcoming of fugitive electoral commission (CEP) director-general
Jacques Bernard who fled Haiti amid investigations of massive election
fraud. Read more at DominionPaper.ca
49:30 Pesticide
Testing on ChildrenIntentional and deceptive testing of
poisons on humans - oftens the most vulnerable members of society -
prompted the EPA to create protections, but the rules are
loophole-ridden and ineffective. Stephanie Hendricks, Communications
Director of Pesticide Action Network, reports on their lawsuit to hold
EPA accountable for protecting the public and analysis of the EPA rules
by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Visit panna.org for the NRDC
report and more information on Human Testing of pesticides.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: Non-stop retaliation has followed on the heels of what appears to be a Sunni attack on one of the most holy Shia sites in the world; Independent journalist Anthony Fenton talks about the State Department Infiltration on USA Today; also, award-winning poet and essayist Suheir Hammad reads from her new book and responds to the US global war of terror; on Earth Matters, Amanda Bellerby covers the torture and slaughter of Yellowstone Park's last wild buffalo; and the Knight Report
06:00 Worsening Situation in US-Occupied Iraq
As’ad Abu-Khalil, webmaster, , author, professor at CSU Stanislaus
15:00 USA Today Meets the State Department Anthony Fenton,
Independent Reporter, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
24:00 Earth Matters. Amanda Bellerby
Earth Matters features an interview with Mike Mease of the Buffalo Field Campaign, who reports on the slaughter of more than 900 wild bison that migrate outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. music clip: "Cows Witrh Guns" by Dana Lyons
36:00 UAE Port Deal with Bush Administration
Tyson Slocum, Special Flashpoints Correspondent
46:00 Poetry on the Street. Suheir Hammad, poet, author, “ZaatarDiva”,
50:00 Vigil Against Torture. Anita Barrows, poet and activist.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints:
Murderer's Row at San Quentin set to kick back into gear at 7:30PM
Pacific Time with the state-sponsored homicide of Michael Morales; also
Starhawk reports back from the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, where the
community stands against government attempts at ethnic cleansing; plus
Israeli occupiers step up their program of collective punishment and
serial murder, killing 31 Palestinians in the last month; and on the
Knight Report, Robert Knight focuses on the death needle at San Quentin.01:20 The Knight Report
The
State of
California is engaged in irrevocable haste to kill a death row inmate
with a novel injection of sodium pentathol to ease the pain of the
public while Michael Morales silently suffocates in a paralytic
narcotic coma.
06:30 A Slow and Painful Death
Pacific
News
contributor and editor of The
Beat Within, Michael Kroll discusses the pure insanity of searching
for sanitary means of publicly killing some who may or may not have
killed others. The rush to kill Morales before midnight adds frenzy to
insanity. Read more commentary
from Michael Kroll on Pacific
News Service
22:00 Bioremediation
and Ethnic Cleansing
in the Lower 9thActivist
Starhawk,
author of The Fifth Sacred Thing,
The Spiral Dance and
The Earth Path, discusses
recent work with Common
Ground Relief in
New Orleans providing basicpublic health and safety that local,
state
and federal government is unable or unwilling to provide. Read Bioremediation
in New Orleans, and visit www.starhawk.org
34:00 Israel Continues to Kill Palestinians As Collective Punishment for Democratic Elections
Kristen
Ess, FP
Special Correspondent, journalist in West Bank
Also visit Palestine News Network
Also visit Palestine News Network
Monday, February 20, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: The state of California prepares to murder Michael Morales at San Quentin tonight; also, an extended interview with award winnin
g
poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield about Poetry in a time of War.01:00 Michael Morales’ Execution
Lance Linsey, Ex. Dir. Of Death Penalty Focus
08:00 Poetry in a Time of War: Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield, award-winning poet/essayist
Friday, February 17, 2006
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Today
on Flashpoints: Today,
we’ll have an update on the situation in Colombia where human rights activists, unionists,
and indigenous farmers face sure death if they resist the US-supported
military and their associated death squad paramilitaries; also, here in the wine
capital of the country, the spigots are flowing but those who pick the
grapes are facing repression both where they work and where they live;
headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Introduction/ Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Molina, Nora
16:00 Colombia in the Crosshairs. Pablo Serrano, photojournalist
26:00 Global Domination. Peter Phillips, Project Censored,
41:00 Iran Update. Bonnie Faulkner, KPFA's Guns and Butter,
47:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero and Pablo Serrano.
01:00 Introduction/ Headlines from the Region
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel Guerrero, Miguel Molina, Nora
16:00 Colombia in the Crosshairs. Pablo Serrano, photojournalist
26:00 Global Domination. Peter Phillips, Project Censored,
41:00 Iran Update. Bonnie Faulkner, KPFA's Guns and Butter,
47:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero and Pablo Serrano.
Thursday, February 16,
2006
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Today on Flashpoints: Voice of America infiltrates National Public Radio’s flagship show, Morning Edition, regarding the situation in Haiti; also, invoking language reminiscent of the Nazis, Israel announces they will be putting millions of occupied Palestinians on a “diet”; part two of our searing interview with Alfred McCoy on the United States’ use of torture over the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
Vice President Richard Cheney gives
conflicting accounts about the Saturday when he shot the lawyer but would not see the
deputy. Robert Knight
09:00 Haiti Report: Preval Wins Elections
Brian Concannon,
director, Institute for Justice and
Democracy in Haiti
Read Ginger Thompson's NYT article about the deal to name a new Haitian President
Read Ginger Thompson's NYT article about the deal to name a new Haitian President
24:00 “Put the Palestinians on a Diet” – Israel, US Cut Aid
Ali Abunimah,
co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net
37:00 50 Years of US’ Use of Torture: Part Two
Alfred McCoy, author, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation
from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Also see Tuesday's show for the first part of
this
extraordinary discussion of how this happened, who's responsible and
who's getting punished.
Newly-released photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib: http://dahrjamailiraq.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: The US embassy continues to call recent elections in Haiti free and fairwhile the US media blame the current violence on presidential frontrunner Rene Preval; also, an Israeli sniper shoots a young disabled Palestinian boy in the chest, killing him, the latest in a series of vicious shootings in the West Bank and Gaza; Lawyers Guild President-elect Marjorie Cohn responds to the latest torture pictures from Abu Ghraib; plus, the Block Report on alcohol and the Black Muslim community in Oakland; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
10:00 Haiti’s Elections and the US Subversion
Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
34:00 Israel Kills Another Child in the West Bank
Mohammed Ali, Flashpoints special correspondent in Gaza City
45:00 Oakland Liquor Stores and the Black Muslim Community
JR and Maya Orozco
54:00 Response to new Abu Ghraib torture photographs
Marjorie Cohn, President-elect, National Lawyer’s Guild; editor,
Truthout.org; Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: A leaked UN report calls for the US to close its torture center at Guantanamo Bay; also, Haiti Presidential frontrunner Rene Preval says there was massive fraud in last week’s election; Alfred McCoy on the US government’s use of torture for the last 50 years; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
10:00 Report on Haiti:
Kevin
Pina, FP special
correspondent
Disgruntled business leaders and Haitian elites try to thwart the majority
Read more on IndyBay and John Maxwell's perspective at HaitiAction.net
21:00 UN Report on Guantanamo:Disgruntled business leaders and Haitian elites try to thwart the majority
Read more on IndyBay and John Maxwell's perspective at HaitiAction.net
Michael
Ratner,
President, Center for
Constitutional Rights
Alfred
McCoy, author,
“A Question of
Torture : CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror”
(Read Naomi Klein's comments about the book)
(Read Naomi Klein's comments about the book)
Alfred W. McCoy is professor of
History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The
Politics of Heroin, CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, an
examination of the CIA's alliances with drug lords, and Closer Than
Brothers, a study of the impact of the CIA's psychological torture
method upon the Philippine military.
Monday, February 13, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: The US coup government in Haiti moves to steal the election, meanwhile, UN forces open fire on protesters who have now taken to the streets all over Port-au-Prince; also, an in-depth analysis of the Palestinian political situation as the Israeli occupation expands and deepens; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Report from Haiti: US Destabilizes Election Outcome
Kevin
Pina, FP special correspondent
Lucy Tondreau, Haitian activist
26:00 Music breakLucy Tondreau, Haitian activist
27:00 Palestine, Occupation and the Hamas Election Victory:
Dr.
Hatem
Bazian, UC Berkeley professor on Near-East Studies, is a native
Palestinian who immigrated to the US in pursuit of higher education.
His more than twenty years of experience as a Palestinian activist have
earned him the role of a local media spokesperson on Middle East
issues. He currently teaches at UC-Berkeley where he graduated with a
Ph.D. in Islamic studies, specializing in Islamic Law and the history
of Muslims in Jerusalem.
Friday, February 10, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: We spend the hour
featuring the hard-hitting documentary Poison Dust, which dives into
the untold story of depleted uranium as it’s being used in occupied
Iraq; and headlines from the region.
01:00 Introduction. Dennis, Miguel
Guerrero.
06:00 Haiti Elections
Kevin Pina, Special Flashpoints Correspondent
16 :00 La Otra Campaña. John Ross en Español
26:00 Film: Poison Dust on the dangers of depleted uranium
Haitians Voting in
Port-au-Prince
01:00 Introduction. Dennis, Miguel
Guerrero.06:00 Haiti Elections
Kevin Pina, Special Flashpoints Correspondent
16 :00 La Otra Campaña. John Ross en Español
26:00 Film: Poison Dust on the dangers of depleted uranium
Thursday, February 9, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints:
We'll have a report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the apparent victory
of Aristide frind and protege, Rene Garcia Preval; also 15 Palestinians
killed by Israel in the last two weeks - we'll feature a report by
Laila El-Haddad in Gaza; a look at the exploding Middle East and South
Asian region with an area expert, blogger Rahul Mahajan; we continue
with the excerpts from David Ray Griffin's hard-hitting speech on
'9/11' and the coverup; and the Knight Report01:20 The Knight Report:
- President Bush defends warantless wire-tapping with uncorroborated claims of a '9/11' plot in Los Angeles
- The White House is sending sailors to augment the ground troops in Iraq
- UN Secretary Kofi Annan speaks out as new issues imerge in the Muslim cartoon protests
- It appears that Rene Preval has won the election in Haiti. Robert Knight
17:45 Palestine Report: Laila El-Haddad describes the escalation by Israeli forces of targeted assasinations that also result in civilian bystander casualties, continual shelling and amplified psychological warfare following the Palestinian elections. Read Laila El-Haddad's blog at http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/
23:00 Middle East Protests: Middle East expert, author and blog master, Rajul Mahajan provides perspective on freedom of the press and provocation, double-standards and the targeting of protesters, with at least 13 protesters dead at the hands of agents of 'Western order'. Visit EmpireNotes.org for more.
31:00 9/11 and the American Empire - How should Religious People Respond? Author and theologian David Ray Griffin updates some Commandments in a recent speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's oil
- Thou shalt not murder thy neighbors in order to steal their oil
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbors, accusing them of illicitly harboring weapons of mass destruction in order to justify killing them to steal their oil...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
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We focus on the upcoming July
presidential elections in Mexico as well as ananalysis of the recent
progressive victories in Bolivia, Chile, Brazil and of course
Venezuela; also, we’ll feature
a hard-hitting speech by David Ray Griffin on his 9/11 analysis and the
attacks which he is now suggesting may have been an inside job.
01:00 On Mexico, the US, and the Zapatistas
John Ross, journalist, author, poet
16:00 Speech: David Ray Griffin – Remarkable Facts About 9/11
David Ray Griffin
01:00 On Mexico, the US, and the Zapatistas
John Ross, journalist, author, poet
16:00 Speech: David Ray Griffin – Remarkable Facts About 9/11
David Ray Griffin
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: US-designed elections in Haiti undermine the poors' ability to vote and immediately taint the elections - we'll have a live report from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; also the deadly untold story of depleted uranium used in Iraq - we'll feature an interview with DU expert Major Doug Rokke; and we'll broadcast exerpts of a hard-hitting new documentary Poison DUst, a close look at the dangers of radioactive DU; and the Knight Report
01:00 The Knight Report:
- More global Muslim protest
- Resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Consternation in Egypt
- Voting and death in Haiti
- Coretta Scott King is memorialized in the spirit of Martin Luther King
More to follow. Also visit haitiaction.net for updates. Watch Reuters video for an amazing view of voting activities.
19:30 Depleted Uranium - The Weapon That Goes On Killing: Gulf War veteran and former Director of the US Army's Depleted Uranium Project, Major Doug Rokke provides alarming statistics on mounting disabilities resulting from DU exposure. The US Department of Veteran Affairs has formally awarded permanent disability to close to 200,000 Gulf War I veterans as of December 2005, and it is estimated that close to 370,000 veterans suffer permanent disabilities as a result of DU exposure in the Persian Gulf region. Read the latest Gulf War Veterans Information System report released December 28, 2005 (pdf format). Compensation and Pension statistics start on Page 7.
Also discussed is the devastating long-term impact of indisciminant environmental DU contamination in Iraq that can not be cleaned up.
32:00 Poison DUst - Radioactive DU Weapons in Iraq: Excerpts from a new documentary that takes a closer look at the deadly effects of radioactive depleted uranium weapons on soldiers returning home from the Gulf region. Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disablity of her young husband - a Gulf War veteran.
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Monday, February 6, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: Report
from
Port-au-Prince as US-designed elections are scheduled and government
violence is expected; also, our next installment on the National
Endowment for Democracy’s infiltration into social groups in Haiti; a
report from our special correspondent in New Orleans, where the
Louisiana government was greeted by jeers and questions from forgotten
residents about the future of their neighborhoods; a speech by Robert
Fisk; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report Common Ground Collective - New Orleans
06:00 Report from Haiti:
The Elections and the NED
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
Jeb Sprague, investigative journalist
25:00 New Orleans’ Racist Eviction
Brandon Darabey,
Common Ground Collective
32:00 Speech: Robert Fisk in Berkeley
Friday, February 3, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints:
Our special correspondent Kevin Pina gets an interview with the
most wanted man in Haiti; President Hugo Chavez throws the US Naval
Attaché out of Venezuela for his involvement in espionage
against the Chavez government; also, the Revolution Will Not Be
Televised: a ground-breaking documentary about the 2002 attempted coup
of Hugo Chavez; and headlines from the region.
01:00 Introduction Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Guerrero and Miguel Molina
06:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
13:00 On Venezuela. Gregory Wilpert, VenezuelaAnalysis.com
28:00 FILM: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Documentary film about the attempted coup of Pres. Hugo Chavez in 2002
01:00 Introduction Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Guerrero and Miguel Molina
06:00 Report from Haiti. Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
13:00 On Venezuela. Gregory Wilpert, VenezuelaAnalysis.com
28:00 FILM: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Documentary film about the attempted coup of Pres. Hugo Chavez in 2002
Thursday, February 2, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints:
How the Associated Press and other major US news organizations
deliberately censor the facts on the ground in occupied Palestine,
we’ll have a lively discussion with journalist and media analyst Alison
Weir; also, Israeli dissident historian and author Dr. Ilan Pappe on
the continued dispossession and colonization of the Palestinian people;
and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report:
- The Saddam Hussein trial becomes even more surrealistic with absentee defendants and invisible witnesses
- President Bush wants another $70 billion for the war in Iraq, as a British author details a Bush-Blair conspiracy to start that war
- Muslims protest controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in Europe in the name of free speech.
- Robert Knight
06:00 Associated
Press and US Media on
Palestine/Israel:Alison
Weir, If
Americans Knew – www.ifamericansknew.org
Read more from Alison Wier on American for Middle East Understanding
See Alison Weir at upcoming events in the SF Bay area
Read more from Alison Wier on American for Middle East Understanding
See Alison Weir at upcoming events in the SF Bay area
31:00 Ilan
Pappe on the Continued
Colonilization of Palestine:Dr.
Ilan Pappe,
Israeli dissident historian and author.
Prof. Pappe speaks about Zionism, the Palestinian Nakba, teaching the
truth in Israel, the desirability of a one-state solution,
Israel-Palestinian labor relations and divestment.45:00 KPFA Winter Fund Drive:
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
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Today on Flashpoints: Renowned Native American leader and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Dennis Banks talks about the new run for life, across the country from San Francisco to Washington DC; also, Dahr Jamail reports from the Al-Jazeera conference on media responsibility in a time of war and occupation; Palestinian refugee youth visit their original villages inside Israel; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report Dheisheh Refugee Camp Mural - Mariposa.Yosemite.Net
06:00 Al-Jazeera and Media Under Occupation in Iraq
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent
17:00 American Indian Movement Legend Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks, AIM
37:00 (Affiliates Only)
Refugee Girls Visit Original Villages
inside Israel’s 1948 Borders
Documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman,
from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in occupied Palestine
43:00 KPFA Fund Drive