Archived Shows - July 2006

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Monday, July 31, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 The Knight Report  The war-without-apparent-end continues in Lebanon

08:00 Israeli Massacres in Qana, Sidon Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent


35:00 Music Break










37 :00 Israeli Massacres in Gaza
Dr. Mona el-Farra,director of Gaza projects for Middle East Children’s Alliance;
Vice-president, Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza; member of Union of
Health Work Committees in Gaza.

48:00 KPFA Fund Drive Begins

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Friday, July 28, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We devote most of the show to the ongoing destruction of Lebanon and the battle raging at the south border of lebanon between Hezbollah and Israeli invaders; We’ll begin the coverage with a report from our special correspondent Bilal El-Amine from the south of Lebaon; We’ll move from the south to Beirut where tens of thousands have fled the Israeli bombings in the south; we’ll also speak with Ali Abunimah and nation columnist Alexander Cockburn about U.S. diplomacy and endless war policy; We’ll also have an exclusive interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal about his case.

01:00 Frontline Report from south Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, Former Editor of Left Turn Magazine www.leftturn.org
From Southern Lebanon/ Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

17:00 Humanitarian Efforts in Beirut
Abdul Rahman Zahzah; Graduate of University of Madison in Wisconsin      
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein                

26:00 So-Called Diplomacy by the U.S. and England
Ali Abunimah; human rights activist, www.electroniclebabon.net
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

33:00 U.S. Diplomacy and Endless War
Alexander Cockburn; editor www.counterpunch.org
and contributor to The Nation Magazine

46:00 KPFA Fund Drive Begins

46:00 NON-KPFA Listeners ONLY
Update from Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal; journalist, death row inmate
Interviewed by Flashpoints contributor J.R.

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Thursday, July 27, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israel intensifies its bombing campaign on the south of Lebanon, and considers anyone there now to be a member of Hizbullah; we'll have our daily report from Bilal El-Amine from the south; then we'll speak to a woman who fled the south of Lebanon with her family and lost some of her friends in the bombing; we'll hear about the environmental nightmare caused by Israel's bombing of a power plant; and we'll hear about working with the hundreds of thousands of displaced Lebanese.

01:00 Frontline Report from south Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, former editor of Left Turn Magazine reporting from southern Lebanon
www.leftturn.org
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

14:00 Eyewitness Account of War in Southern Lebanon
Malak Khaled; activist/witnessed war and is currently internally displaced in Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

34:00 Population of Internally Displaced in Beirut Spikes
Tina Naccache; activist/former KPFA music programmer living in Beirut, Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

46:00 KPFA Summer 2006 Fund Drive
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli Invaders in South Lebanon take heavy casualities: we'll feature a frontline report from Bilal El Amine in the south; also Ali Abunimah on the breakdown of diplomacy in Rome and on the latest Israeli slaughters in Gaza; and an outraged panel on the Block Report, as JR and the crew confront police brutality head on. Dennis Bernstein with JR in San Francisco's Mission District.

01:00 Frontline Report from south Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, Former Editor of Left Turn Magazine
From Southern Lebanon. Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

14:00 The pre-planned failure of diplomacy
Ali Abunimah, www.electronicintifada.net, electronicLebanon.net
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

25:00 The Block Report
J. R. journalist for the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper,

45:00 Sir No Sir! Soundtrack
An excerpt of the film directed by David Zeiger - the story of the GI movement to end the Vietnam war

50:00 KPFA 2006 Summer Fund Drive Begins

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We Continue our Frontline reports from the south of Lebanon where Israeli invaders continue to meet stiff resistance from Hezbollah; We also speak with Nora Barrow Friedman in Palestine, where Israeli occupation forces continue to lay siege to the Gaza strip and have killed at least fifteen Palestinians in the last three days; Nora will also tell us about an anti-Rice protest in Ramallah on the West Bank; And we'll feature excerpts from Sir! No Sir, a riveting new documentary about the suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.

01:00 Frontline Report From South Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, former editor of Left Turn magazine reporting from southern Lebanon
www.leftturn.org
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

11:00 Report From Occupied Gaza
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

29:00 Sir No Sir! Soundtrack
Soundtrack of the film by David Zeiger

40:00 KPFA 2006 Summer Fund Drive Begins

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Monday, July 24, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

01:00 Frontline Report from South Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, Former Editor of
Left Turn Magazine
From Southern Lebanon.
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

16:00 Reaction from Human Rights Activist
on Israeli/U.S. War on Lebanon
Tina Naccache, activist, artist, former music
programmer with KPFA, living in Beirut, Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein               

47:00 KPFA Fund Drive Begins                      

47:00 NON-KPFA Listeners Only:
Continued Repression of Teachers in Oaxaca
Alejandro Reyes, Flashpoints
Special Correspondent in Mexico

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Friday, July 21, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

06:00 Ground Assault Begins in Southern Lebanon
Bilal El-Amine, Former Editor of Left Turn Magazine
From Southern Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

28:00 Lebanese Refugees in Mexico
Gustavo Iruegas, former Mexican Ambassador of Foreign Relations to
Latin America and the Caribbean
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein and Francisco Herrerra

38:00 Palestinian Response to the Expanded War
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Senior Producer Flashpoints in Palestine
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

44 :00 Flashpoints in Espanol
Gustavo Iruegas, former Mexican Ambassador of Foreign Relations to Latin
America and the Caribbean. Interviewed by Miguel Guerrero

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:

• We'll feature a report from Beirut on Israel’s continuing airwar against the entire country;
• Also we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about the continuing bombing of Lebanon and the international reaction;
• We’ll have the second report in our series on the battle for the right to choose in Mississippi;
• We’ll speak to Greg Palast who says that Ken Lay is still with us in the form of deregulation and power blackouts;
• And the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report
Robert Knight

06:00 Israel Continues Destruction of Lebanese Infrastructure
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

23:00 Musical Break

24:00 Political Overview of Invasion of Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

35:00 Pro-Choice Advocates Stand in Mississippi

47:00 Ken Lay Still Lives According to Greg Palast
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:
 We are broadcasting live from the New College of California in San Francisco.

• Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine on the local response to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and about a poignant visit she made with young Palestinians to the land that was stolen from their families starting in 1948 ;
• We’ll also feature a live panel discussion on the gentrification of inner city neighborhoods from Harlem to Hollywood;
• The Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Lebanon announces its intent to seek reparations from Israel as the invasion death toll exceeds 300
• Israel bombs bunkers seeking leaders of Hizbullah in Beirut today
• Turkey threatens to imitate Israel's cross-border incursion in Iraq
• Ethiopia is also imitating Israel's cross-border incursion in Somalia

Robert Knight

06:00 Palestinian Local Response to Israel Invasion of Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

28:00 From Harlem to Hollywood: Gentrification Panel
Interviewed by Emily Howard
Articles:

• In the war of the super-rich on the rest of us ... in San Francisco, as in New Orleans by Ann Garrison (SF Bay View)
• The Bayview Battler by Eliza Strickland (SF Weekly)
• The removal picks up speed by Kevyn Lutton (SF Bay View);
• Bay View back yard was jammin' Sunday by mesha Monga-Irizarry (SF Bay View);
• 'We Shall Not Be Moved' by Marilyn Bechtel (People's Weekly World Newspaper);
• Ten months after Katrina: Gutting New Orleans by Bill Quigley (SF Bay View)

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli F-16s contine to pound Lebanon as the death toll rises to over 230, including an entire family of 9 killed in Lebanon; we'll speak to Robert Fisk on the ground in Beirut; we'll also speak sith former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern for a deep backgrounder on the players and the dangers in the expanding Middle East war; and the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report. Robert Knight

06:00 Israel Continues Pound Lebanon for Another Day
Robert Fisk, journalist and author, The Great War For Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East.
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

26:00 Music Break

28:00 CIA Analyst on Standing Middle East War
Ray McGovern, former high level CIA analyst
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

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Monday, July 17, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israel continues it deadly bombing campaign of Lebanon, killing or wounding dozens, including women and children, we'll feature a report from on the ground; Also, we'll have a report from occupied Gaza where over a million Palestinians continue to be subjected to land and air attacks by Israeli occupiers; We'll go to the heart of the south, in Mississippi, where extreme right-wing fundamentalists are attempting to undermine a poor women's right to choose; and The Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• The Israeli-Lebanese war continues out of control today;
• The White House balks at a US peace mission to the region;
• British Prime Minister and Islamic scholar Tony Blair is caught in a candid conversation with George W. Bush
• Ethiopia invades Somalia; and
• The Taliban is back in business in Afghanistan

Robert Knight

06:00 Israel Continues to Bomb Lebanon
Bilal El Amine, former editor of Left Turn Magazine/human rights activist based in Lebanon
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein
28:00 Suffering in Gaza Rises to New Levels
Josie Shields-Stromsness, staff person with Middle East Children's Alliance - http://www.mecaforpeace.org/
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

40:00 Mississippi Abortion Clinic Targeted
Toni Mendicino, Organizer for Bay Area Radical Women and Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights - http://www.radicalwomen.org/
Sarah Olson, Flashpoints Special Correspondent in Jackson, Mississippi
Interviewed by Emily Howard

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Friday, July 14, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
01:00 Israeli Bombing Campaign
Dennis Bernstein and Francisco Herrera

06:00 Mexico Election Fraud, Protests Planned
John Ross, journalist and author.
John Gibler, FP Correspondent/Global
Exchange Fellow Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein                                                       26:00 Labor and Race Panel
Evenlyn Sanchez, Organizer of Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
Mark Goodwin, Director of California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights. Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein and Francisco Herrera

40:00 Headlines of the Region
Dennis Bernstein, Francisco Herrera and Miguel Guerrero

45:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
John Ross, journalist/author
Interviewed by Miguel Guerrero

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Thursday, July 13, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Israeli fighter jets strike deep inside Lebanon killing over 50 including 15 children and a family of ten, we’ll feature a special report with Ali Abunimah just back from the region; also Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine on the expanding war against Palestinians and its devastating impact on children; a look back at a U.N. assisted massacre in Haiti one year ago today; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Israel’s Expanding War Against Lebanon

24:00 Children Tortured in Israeli Prisons

42:00 Cite Soleil Massacre Remembered

55:00 San Francisco Demonstration to Stop Israel Offensive in The Middle East

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

Today on Flashpoints:  Today on another edition of Flashpoints, we’ll have a special report on the Israeli invasion and bombings of Lebanon, we’ll speak to a medical doctor about Israeli bombing in Gaza today which wiped out a family of nine; also we’ll talk about the Palestinian Right to Return; have a special report from Nora Barrows-Friedman from the West Bank; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Special Report from Palestine                                     
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Senior Producer of Flashpoints

13:00 Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon/Right to Return
Asad Abu Khalil, Blog master Angry Arab.blogspot.com
Michel Shehabeh and Eyad Kishawi, Palestinian Right to Return Coalition

26:00 Reports on the Killing of a Family of Nine in Gaza
Dr. Mona El-Farra M.D. and human rights activist based in Gaza

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A new report documents widespread abuses against Black and Latino workers in post-Katrina New Orleans; also Palestinians in the US protest Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine; a former CIA-backed Haitian death squad leader is arrested in New York on fraud and embezzlement, and grand larceny charges; the mother of another Iraq soldier speaks out about the war; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Two US troops are tortured and killed in retaliation for the American military rape and murder of a 14 year-old Iraqi girl and her family;
• Somalia's Muslim militias defeat a CIA proxy warlord in Mogadishu and call for George Bush's arrest and prosecution; and
• The White House is calling for more troops and bases in and around Afghanistan, where Washington's War of Terror is spilling over into Pakistan.

Robert Knight

07:00 Abuses Against Black and Latino Workers in New Orleans

Jordan Flaherty is a union organizer and editor of Left Turn Magazine. He is not planning on moving out of New Orleans. All his articles on hurricane Katrina and New Orleans are at www.leftturn.org/Articles/SpecialCollections/jordanonkatrina.aspx

25:00 Former CIA-backed Hatian Death Squad Leader Arrested in New York

Jenny Green, Attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

Is the US harboring an international terrorist, trained and supported by the CIA? The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed the arraignment of Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the former paramilitary leader of the paramilitary organization known as FRAPH (translated as the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti) for grand larceny, forgery and falsifying business records. The indictment accused Constant and five co-defendants with helping to defraud SunTrust Bank of more than $1 million last year. Read more...
www.ccr-ny.org

34:00 Music Break

36:00 Palestinians in the US Protest Israel Ethnic Cleansing

Lara Kiswani and John Batarseh on the despicable murders of civilians and the illegal destruction of Palestinian infrastructure to collectively punish civilians under the brutal Israeli invasion and occupation aimed at creating a deadly humanitarian crisis.

Demonstrations are being held in Sacramento California, at 16th and J Streets on Tuesday, and in  San Francisco on Thursday, ahead of the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition convention this coming weekend (July 14 to 16)
www.arab-american.net

50:00 Music Break

52:00 Freedom Ride Bus Tour: The World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime

Elaine Brower, mother of a US marine in Iraq with a message for the Bush administration, is interviewed by Flashpoints Intern Joe Tougas.
www.worldcantwait.net

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Monday, July 10, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

Today on Flashpoints: We go to Mexico City where hundreds of thousands of supporters of Obrador are accusing Calderon and his cronies of stealing the Presidential election, we’ll speak to John Ross live with the latest details; also a Spanish judge issues an arrest warrant for the former President of Guatemala for genocide and crimes against humanity; and Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine on the killing of over 50 people and the wounding of hundreds of others by illegal occupation forces; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Mexican Election Fraud Update
John Ross, author/independent journalist based out of Mexico City
See: Disputed Election Raises Tensions in Mexico . John Ross - The Nation

21:00 Humanitarian Disaster in Palestine
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Executive Producer of Flashpoints

31:00 Guatemalan Genocide Case
Atttorney Almudena Bernabeu, private prosecutor Center for Justice and Accountability
Matt Eisenbrant Director of the Center for Justice and Accountability
 

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Friday, July 7, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

Today on Flashpoints: Former high level Bush official Catherine Fitts speaks out against US corporate subversion and pump and dump economics; John Gibler reports on the electoral fraud in Mexico and Flashpoints en Espanol                                                                             

Alternatives:  Solari.com

01:00 Corporate Subversion and Pump and Dump Economics    
Catherine Fits, former high level Bush official, www.solari.com

38:00 Electoral Fraud In Mexico
John Gibler, Global Exchange Human Rights Fellow
and Flashpoints Special Correspondent.

See: Disputed Election Raises Tensions in Mexico . John Ross - The Nation

Public outrage: thousands of supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gather in Mexico City's largest public square at the weekend in a protest against the results of the July 2 presidential election. Photo: Reuters


43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Guerrero and Julio Hernandez, La Jornada columnist.

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 

Police cordon a Nezahuacoyotl garbage dump where ballots and 
ballot-boxes from three precincts won by López Obrador were 
discovered on Tuesday. Photo: D.R. 2006 El Universal.

Today on Flashpoints: Calderon squeeks by Obrador by less than one-half of one percent of the vote in Mexico - we'll have a live report from John Ross in Mexico City; also Israeli occupiers push deep into Gaza, killing more than 24 and wounding many more; and the first in our series of women resisting war - we interview performance artist Sherry Glaser.

01:20 Mexico Election, 2006

John Ross, long an observer of politics in Mexico,  interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, discusses the significance of this election as a choice between North and South, rich and poor. Computerized vote machine irregularities, "lost" votes and unexplained patterns in vote counts raise questions about the validity of the results. Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to challenge the count and has called for a rally of supporters in Mexico City on at 5PM on Saturday July 8.

For more on the vote anomalies, read the article by Al Giordano on NarcoNews.com

Palestinians checking the destruction incurred to the office of the Palestinian
Prime Minister by an Israeli air strike. source - http://www.pchrgaza.org

17:30 Israeli Armed Assault on Gaza Escalates

In what is clearly a campaign of illegal destruction of infrastructure, kidnapping of political leaders, and collective punishment of Palestinian civilians that is designed to undermine, disrupt and dismantle the elected Hamas government, ongoing daily Israeli attacks continue to kill dozens of civilians and destroy the property and livlihoods of thousands more, carried out under the pretext of reaction to the military capture on one Israeli soldier.

Richard Becker, a member of the National Steering Committee for the International ANSWER Coalition and West Coast Coordinator of the International Action Center, is interviewed by Dennis Bernstein.

Find out about protest and boycott actions across the USA. For up-to-the-minute news, visit the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, and read weekly summaries of human rights violations at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, www,pchrgaza.org

July 13 - Emergency Protest in San Francisco: At the Israeli Consulate, with Al-Awda - the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and endorsed by ANSWER and many others. July 13, 4:30pm 456 Montgomery St. SF Contact 415-821-6545 for more information

32:00 Women Resisting War - Sherry Glaser

Actress, radical performance artist and activist Sherry Glaser, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein discusses the rationale for the guerilla action group Breasts Not Bombs, which contrasts the indecency and obscenity of war with the natural grace and beauty of the human body. Many who calmly accept war find the sight of an exposed breast intolerable obscenity.

Sherry Glaser is currently performing her one-woman show Oh My Goddess! at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco through July 15.  For information, call (800) 838-3006

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: US occupation forces continue to expand their killing fields in Iraq. We’ll hear from an Iraqi investigative journalist; also Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld subpoenaed on the cover up of torture and abuse in Abu Graib prison in Iraq; the US House of Representatives takes its anti-immigration election show on the road and we’ll have an update on the South Central Farm in L.A.

01:00  Rana, investigative journalist from Iraq

22:00 Whistle Blower on Abuses in Abu-Graib
Sibel Edmonds, founder of the
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition

35:00 Press Conference on the US-Mexico Border
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrants Rights, www.nnirr.org

51:00 An Update on the Central Farm in L.A.
Pablo Gonzalez and Rosa, East Side Cafe and La Otra Campaña

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We spend the hour with legendary Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galleano. Galleano spoke recently in Oakland, Calfornia and shared new work from his latest book.

Eduardo Galleano in Oakland, California
Eduardo Galleano, legendary Uruguayan writer

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Monday, July 3, 2006 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A look at the effects of the continued Israeli siege in Gaza from the hospital beds to the streets; also, Dahr Jamail and Mark Manning talk about the ongoing wreckage in US-occupied Iraq and a film about the 2004 sieges of Fallujah; an update on net neutrality; and a Freedom Ride redux jumps off in New Orleans.

01:00 Documentary on Gaza’s Children

Excerpts from a documentary by International Middle East Media Center – www.imemc.org

14:00 Music break

16:00 The Road to Fallujah

Dahr Jamail, FP special correspondent - www.dahrjamailiraq.com
Mark Manning, independent filmmaker

SF EVENT: Friday, July 7th, 7pm, Brava Theater (2781 24th st.) – Discussion and screening event - Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja www.conceptionmedia.net. Click here for event flyer (PDF)

In November 2004, the American military took siege of the ancient city of Falluja, Iraq – a city comparable to the size of Cincinnati, Ohio with a population of at least 250,000. Shot from November 2004 to April 2005 inside the city of Falluja, Caught in the Crossfire details the conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the violent clashes and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community. Click here for a preview (requires Quicktime)

30:00 Music Break

32:00 Update on Net Neutrality

Sydney Levy, Media Alliance with Emily Howard, FP intern
Your voice is critical. Learn more at www.media-alliance.org, then email, call, and meet with your elected officials. For help organizing a meeting, call Media Alliance at (510) 832-9000 ext 303

45:00 Music Break

48:00 Freedom Ride Redux!

Joe Tougas, FP intern
Drive Out the Bush Regime Summer Bus Tour - The World Cant Wait