Archived Shows - June 2006

Friday, June 30, 2006

Today on Flashpoints: One day before the national Mexican elections, we take a look at the activities and the response from the Other Campaign, through the eyes of our correspondent Alejandro Reyes; back in the Mission district of San Francisco, we continue to look at the response to the growing violence and gentrification of the neighborhood and talk about how people are organizing there; headlines from the region; an appeal to protest at the SF Israeli consulate on Monday afternoon for the war crimes against Palestinians; a commentary by Miguel Molina; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Introduction. Francisco, Nora and Miguel Mexico's Other Campaign

05:00 Mexican Elections
Francisco Herrera and Miguel Guerrero

12:00 Report from Mexico City
Alejandro Reyes with introduction by Emily Howard

20:00 SF's Mission District Community Responds to Violence and Gentrification
Francisco Herrera

30:00 Appeal for Protest at Israeli Consulate in SF on Monday
Nora reading from statement from Al-Awda Coalition
Israeli consulate protest Monday, 4:30pm, 456 Montgomery Street in SF!

33:00 Commentary
Miguel Gavilan Molina

38:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Guerrero and John Ross

Thursday, June 29, 2006

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Israeli soldier waits for darkness before troops destroy civilian infrastructure in Gaza and kidnap elected Palestinian government leaders - http://www.electronicintifada.net

Today on Flashpoints: Israel kidnaps 87 members of the elected Palestinian government and resistance leaders as the attacks continue in Gaza; we'll speak with Ali Abunimah on the escalating crisis in occupied Palestine; also the United States Supreme Court votes against the Bush administration in a surprising move to give civil rights to Guantanamo detainees; on Earth Matters, a look at the science of glacial ice cores and climate change; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

The Supreme Court outlaws military tribunals at Guantanomo; and
Israeli troops arrest most of the Palestinian parliament

Robert Knight

Boycott Israeli Goods - http://www.pacbi.org

06:00 Criminal Israeli Attacks in Gaza Continue; Palestinian Leaders Kidnapped

Ali Abunimah - co-founder of ElectronidIntifada.net

While insisting that the capture of an occupation soldier after dozens of Palestinian civilian deaths is an act of terrorism justifying destruction of infrastructure in Gaza, Israeli invaders kidnap scores of Palestinian officials in an outrageous brazen criminal act. Ali Abunimah, co-founder of ElectronicIntifada.net, discusses the need for US citizens to pressure political leaders, and calls for a boycott and divestment as one way to hold Israel accountable. Visit www.electronicintifada.net and www.pacbi.org for more information on boycott, divestment and sanctions.

21:00 Musical Break

22:00 Supreme Court Says No Exemption for Bush Administration

"The Supreme Court has firmly rejected President Bush's attempt to sidestep American courts. Now the President must act: try our clients in lawful U.S. courts or release them. The game is up. There is no way for President Bush to continue hiding behind a purported lack of judicial guidance to avoid addressing the illegal and immoral prison in Guantánamo Bay. Significantly, the Court decided that the Geneva Conventions apply to the so-called 'War on Terror' - people must be treated humanely and the administration cannot put itself above the law. (Michael Ratner, CCR President)

Barbara Olshansky, lead attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, discusses the implications of today's decision for detainees and the Bush administration.

34:00 Musical Break

After the Garden is Gone, Neil Young

36:00 Earth Matters - Environmental News with Amanda Bellerby

Dr. Lonnie Thompson, research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, interviewed by Amanda Bellerby, discusses the importance, challenges and implications of tropical glacier ice core paleoclimatology, ecosystems, human impact and global climate change. Melting has been accelerating in the last five years.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, Israel destroys the infrastructure in Gaza as warplanes, tanks, and gun ships continue an amplified siege, we’ll talk with Dr. Mona Al-Farra from Gaza City and Barbara Lubin about the latest attacks; also a report from Mexico City as the elections close in and resistance to the systematic repression of workers intensifies; a look at current California legislation that could swap public access to information for corporate profits; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

05:00 Israel Continues All-Out Siege in the Gaza Strip
Dr. Mona el-Farra, Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza
Barbara Lubin, Executive Director for Middle East Children’s Alliance
To donate money for medicine.

31:00 Music break

33:00 Report from Mexico City
Alejandro Reyes, Flashpoints Special Correspondent

40:00 Music break – Resistencia – Los De Abajo

44:00 Information Accessibility and the Class Divide
Sydney Levy, Program Coordinator Media Alliance with Emily Howard

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

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Israeli tanks and ground troops took up positions near
the Gaza Strip border Monday. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG

Israeli tanks and ground troops took up positions near the Gaza Strip border Monday, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that he had ordered the army to prepare for a 'long and drawn-out' offensive in response to the abduction of an Israeli soldier. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG

Today on Flashpoints: Israel begins an all-out siege in the Gaza Strip, we’ll have an up-to-the-minute report from Dr. Mona el-Farra witnessing the missile strikes from her home in Gaza City; also, We’ll talk about police corruption and the drug war mess in the Berkeley Police Department; part one of Greg Palast’s book tour kick-off speech at the New College’s Roxie Theater earlier this month; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

An amnesty proposal is negotiated into irrelevance in Iraq;
Somalian skirmishes continue as Ethiopia joins the US in condemning the new Islamic leadership; and
Israel bombs the Gaza Strip in search of a missing soldier

Robert Knight

An Israeli tank maneuvers at a gathering point near
Kibbutz Mefalsim in southern Israel. AP PHOTO

05:00 Israel Begins All-Out Siege in the Gaza Strip

Dr. Mona el-Farra, Union of Health Work Committees in Gaza
Visit the Middle East Childrens Alliance at www.mecaforpeace.org for more information and to donate money for urgently needed medicines and hospital supplies.

16:00 Music break - Instrumental - Moh Alileche

17:00 The Failure of the Drug War

Andrea Pritchett, CopWatch - www.berkeleycopwatch.org

Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast http://www.gregpalast.com

31:00 Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse Book Release Speech

Greg Palast, author, Armed Madhouse, from the global book release event at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on June 6, 2006
www.gregpalast.com

Monday, June 26, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints; Israeli tanks surround Gaza as Palestinians prepare for continued attacks; also we feature a documentary on the life of children in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank; a report from San Salvador Atenco in Mexico in the context of the upcoming elections; and the Knight Report.
Laila el-Haddad, correspondent for Al-Jazeera

Laila el-Haddad, correspondent for Al-Jazeera

01:00 The Knight Report

05:00 Report from Atenco, Mexico
Alejandro Reyes, FP Special Correspondent

12:00 Israel Seals off Gaza Strip
Laila el-Haddad, correspondent for Al-Jazeera and Free Speech Radio
News: Mother From Gaza

21:00 Music break – Habu Hilal – Leh Alkhiyana

22:00 Children and Resistance in Jenin Refugee Camp
Seth Porcello, InternationalMiddle East Media Center
Friday, June 23, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints we pay homage to a young member of the community shot dead in San Francisco's Mission District, we'll talk to his friends and community leaders about youth violence; also excerpts from a moving talk by legendary Latin American writer Eduardo Galleano; and Flashpoints in Espanol.

The Book of Embraces. Eduardo Galleano 1993

5:01 Eduardo Galleano. Eduardo Galleano in Oakland
Five Hundred Years of Plunder: from Columbus
to Corporate America. Eduardo Galleano 1991
The Book of Embraces. Eduardo Galleano 1993
Remembering. Preface by Eduardo Galleano

5:32 Youth Violence in SF Mission District
Francisco Herrera

5:42 Flashpoints in Espanol
Miguel Guerrero with John Ross

Thursday, June 22, 2006

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Common Ground Relief volunteers in New Orleans 9th Ward http://www.commongroundrelief.org

Today on Flashpoints: National Guard Troops once again hit the streets of New Orleans in a stepped-up campaign of repression and gentrification, as thousands of families lose their homes to new developments and FEMA cuts off aid; also, Greg Palast on the drowning of New Orleans and the new class war, excerpts from readings of his brand-new book, Armed Madhouse; news headlines from the Palestine News Network; and the Knight Report.

Common Ground Relief - http://www.commongroundrelief.org

01:00 The Knight Report

A tenuous peace process for Somalia
Executions and a rescue in Iraq

Robert Knight

05:00 Gentrification and Repression in New Orleans

National Guard troops are deployed in New Orleans to remove public housing residents from over 5,000 units of some of the most viable housing in the city. Common Ground is providing youth services and assistance to returning residents that the government is responsible for but unwilling to deliver. Join a grass roots resistance. Volunteer, help rebuild, support the efforts to restore property to residents that city officials want to confiscate. Demonstrate solidarity by traveling to New Orleans on July 4.

www.commongroundrelief.org for more details.
Don Paul, Common Ground Relief Collective

23:00 Music Break

24:00 Greg Palast on the Drowning of New Orleans

Greg Palast, investigative reporter, author, Armed Madhouse
(excerpted from the audio book companion)

42:00 Music Break

43:00 Headlines from Occupied Palestine

Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network - www.pnn.ps/english

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Comemmorating World Refugee Day, we spend the entire hour looking at the unraveling situation in Palestine; Israel kills three children yesterday in a missile strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp, the most populated area on the planet, and today, Israeli warplanes launch a strike against a home, killing a mother and wounding 13 children as they sit down to dinner; also, Palestinian youth dancers on a US tour to educate Americans about their lives; sounds from an energetic protest against the Israeli occupation yesterday in Berkeley; we hear from Palestinian refugee youth on visiting their ancestral villages; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Israeli Continues to Kill Palestinian Children
Mohammed Ali, FP Special Correspondent in Gaza City

22:00 Sounds from Berkeley Protest Against Israeli Killingsd
Voices from the protest

34:00 Palestinian Youth Dancers
Dancers with the al-Raja Palestinian Folkloric Dance Troupe.
Event schedule

44:00 Palestinian Refugee Children Visit Ancestral Villages inside Israel
Nora with Students of the Ibdaa Cultural Center’s Media Training Program

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future by Jeff Goodell from Houghton Mifflin Company publishers

Today on Flashpoints: US warplanes and helicopter gunships begin their assaults on Ramadi, we’ll have an exclusive interview with a resident who fled the oncoming US-led seige and in-depth analysis with our special correspondent Dahr Jamail; also, Jeff Goodell, author of the hard-hitting new book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, tears the lid off the Bush administration’s quiet push for relaxed environmental standards for coal industry profit as we face the disaster of global warming; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Robert Knight

07:00 US Occupation Forces Seal Off and Lay Siege to Ramadi

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent DahrJamailIraq.com
Ahmed, Ramadi resident and witness
(Thanks to Jehad al-Shemarcha for his translation!)

34:00 Music Break

36:00 Big Coal and Global Warming

Jeff Goodell, author, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future

Monday, June 19, 2006

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Audio links not active until 6:30pm Monday

Friday, June 16, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: We will be looking at the attempt of the California Legislature to legalize police murder; we’ll go to the border were a young woman is facing fifteen years in jail for saving people from having a horrible death on the border; we will have an update on the elections in Mexico; we’ll hear about the attack on the teachers in Oaxaca; a report on the Mano Dura implemented by the Salvadorian government and headlines from the region.

01:00 California Legislature Attempts to Legalize Police Murder
Dennis Bernstein and Francisco Herrera

12:00 Poem and Song. Dennis and Francisco

16:00 Death on the Border. Dennis and Francisco

24:00 Facing Jail for Saving Lives. Shanti Zelts, activist, www.nomoredeaths.org

35:00 Headlines of the Region. Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Guerrero

44:00 Music Break

46:00 An Update on Salvadorian Government Policies
Dennis Bernstein and Pedro Reyes

Thursday, June 15, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Legendary filmmaker John Pilger talks about the wars and occupations in Iraq and Palestine, and the pathetic state of Western journalism; also, a report on the brutal free trade zones in Jordan, where raping and beating slave wage workers is not uncommon; an update on Paul LaRudee, a piano tuner, human rights activist and friend of Flashpoints being detained by Israeli officials in Tel Aviv; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Flash point Somalia, where the Bush administration is now trying to thwart Islamic populism through diplomacy after the collapse of Washington's war lords in Mogadishu

Robert Knight

06:00 John Pilger on Iraq and Palestine

John Pilger, interviewed by Dennis Bernstein, presents an independent view of events in the Middle East. When is a 'War on Terrorism' a campaign of terror? Also discussed: how the US and the West created Osama bin Laden and al-Zarqawi, and continues to expand escalating anti-Western sentiment.

John Pilger, filmmaker, author, Freedom Next Time (read an extract on MediaLens.org)

30:00 Music Break

31:00 Detained for Political Activism in Tel Aviv

In a first-hand account of his detention for undisclosed reasons, 60-year old piano tuner and International Solidarity Movement peace activist, Paul Larudee, speculates on the true motivativation for his arrest as he awaits a delayed court hearing on Sunday June 18. Paul has been held in detention since the June 4. His reading and writing materials were confiscated by the Israeli authorities, but the latter were returned after consular and legal intervention. Only the representatives of the American consulate and his attorney are being allowed to speak with him. Unlike most other detainees in the same prison, he has not been allowed to use his cellular phone.Read more about this increasingly common Israeli tactic to try to prevent support of Palestinians.

For more information call Paul’s lawyer: Gabi Lasky: 0544 418 988
Paul Larudee, piano tuner, member of International Solidarity Movement

35:00 Egregious Human Rights Violations in Jordanian Free Trade Factories

A report on labor trafficking and atrocious working conditions for Bangladeshi workers lured to Jordan by false promises of wealth and trapped in slavery by confiscation of documentation. Charles Kernaghan, the director of the National Labor Committee, an independent, non-profit human rights organization focused on the protection of worker rights - especially those of the young women assembling garments, shoes, toys and other products for export to the U.S. in Central America, the Caribbean, China, and the Middle East.
US Free Trade proponents are squirming to avoid questions of complete lack of oversight and enforcement of worker protection terms of the Jordan Free Trade agreement. Progress is being made in correcting the massive imbalance between corporate protections over workers rights.

Charles Kernaghan, National Labor Committee for Human Rights

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints:Human Rights Watch rejects Israel’s claim that Hamas was responsible for the Israeli shelling that killed 7 members of the same family last Friday in Gaza, we’ll speak with the investigator; also, as 75,000 US and Iraqi security forces crash down on Baghdad, US forces prepare to raze the city of Ramadi; an update on the First US Army Lieutenant to refuse active duty in Iraq; and the Knight Report.

Ehren Watada, US Army Lt.
American Hero & Conscientious Objector

Ehren Watada, US Army Lt - True American Hero

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Investigating Israeli Crimes in Gaza Beach Attack
Mark Garlasco, Human Rights Watch

20:00 Police Attack on Teachers in Oaxaca
John Ross, Independent Journalist, Author

25:00 Ramadi Under Siege, Ignored in Media
Rana, independent journalist

38:00 Update: First US Army Lieutenant to Refuse to Fight in Iraq
Todd Chretien, activist, Green Party candidate for Senate
Jeff Patterson, conscientious objector
Ehren Watada, US Army Lt. who will refuse to fight

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

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Palestinians mourn the deaths from the latest bloody Israeli attacks. source - http://english.aljazeera.net

Today on Flashpoints: Israelis kill 11 more Gazans, including 2 children and 2 ambulance drivers; meanwhile, we counter Israeli claims that Hamas was responsible for Friday's beach massacre - we'll talk to the doctor who treated the wounded and observed the dead; also, how the AFL-CIO might better be named CIA in Haiti and Venezuela; Karl Rove makes a narrow escape for the time being; South Central farmers get evicted after being betrayed by the new progressive mayor of LA; and the Knight Report

01:00 The Knight Report

President Bush pays a secret visit to his Iraqi proxy President as post-Zarqawi resistance attacks escalate
New US assaults are underway in Ramadi and Afghanistan, and
The cost of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is now approaching a half trillion dollars

Robert Knight

Two children are among those killed ny an Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza. source - http://english.aljazeera.net

06:00 More Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Gaza Siege

US-supplied Israeli Apache helicopters terrorize Palestinians, killing at least 11 people including 2 children and 2 ambulance drivers - another blatant violation of international law. Dr. Mona el-Farra, Vice President of the Red Crescent Society in Gaza and Health Development Consultant with the Union of Health Work Committees, is interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman

An investigator for international rights group Human Rights Watch told reporters in Gaza earlier that the evidence pointed to Israel. Read the HRW report.

Who demolished these Haitian busses, depriving drivers of their jobs? source http://labornotes.org/archives/2006/06/articles/f.shtml

16:00 AFL-CIO Partners to Undermine Self-Determination in Haiti and Venezuela

Freelance Journalist Jeb Sprague and Kim Scipes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Purdue University North Central speak with Dennis Bernstein about the international foreign policy of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center and its activities in Venezuela and Haiti. Hear how the ACL-CIO leadership supported the Group of 184 in decimating labor unions and depriving thousands of workers of their livlihood. Also revealed is the NED-funded Solidarity Center's blueprint for fueling opposition and fomenting the coups in Chile, Venezuela and Haiti, and undermining democracy and self-determination in Latin America.

Read Failed Solidarity by Jeb Sprague.
Read and sign the Letter to AFL-CIO.

WorkerToWorker.net; LaborNotes.org; FreeHaiti.net; HandsOffVenezuela.org; Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC)

32:00 Rove Escapes Indictment - For Now?

Robert Parry, editor of ConsortiumNews.com discusses the Valerie Plame CIA-leak case with Dennis Bernstein. Is Karl Rove out of the picture, or will he become involved in pursuit of a bigger target?

Read Sealed vs Sealed on TruthOut.org

49:00 Forced Eviction from the South Central Farm

Mass arrests at dawn signal clear the nations largest urban farm for developers. Listen to audio from the evictions by LA Sheriffs and arrests of at least 55 people.

Monday, June 12, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: We speak with a doctor who treated the victims of Israel's crowded beach attack last Friday, which wiped out a picknicking family of seven; also, Patrick Cockburn reports on the situation in Iraq; Michael Berg blames the US government for the beheading of his son, Nick; Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights talks about the suicides of three of his clients at Guantanamo Bay torture center; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Killing Fields on the Beach in Gaza
Dr. Mona el-Farra, Union of Health Work Committee;
VP, Red Crescent Society in Gaza. Read: “Gaza on the Beach” -

22:00 Suicides at Guantanamo
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights,

33:00 Music Break

Al-soug – About Baghdad Soundtrack

34:00 Iraq Massacres
Patrick Cockburn, Independent of London

46:00 Opposing Bush's War of Terror
Michael Berg, candidate for Green Party,
father of Nick Berg (killed in Iraq)

Friday, June 9, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Israelis kill 15 Palestinians, including three children and an official of the new Hamas government, in Gaza over the last 24 hours; the occupiers also detain a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, we’ll hear a statement he made from detention; also, an Iraqi-Kurdish American woman harassed and death threated after trying to vote last Tuesday; the ongoing struggle against gentrification in BayView-Hunter’s Point; and update from Haiti with Kevin Pina; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

06:00 Gaza Attacks, Detention of ISM Volunteer
Nora and Voice of Paul LaRudee, ISM Volunteer speaking
from detention center in Tel Aviv – www.norcalism.org

25:00 Update on Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

34:00 Gentrification in BayView-Hunter’s Point
Ebony Colbert, SF BayView Newspaper

40:00 Iraqi Kurdish-American Woman Attacked At Voting Booth
Sureya

46:00 Flashpoints en Español
Miguel Guerrero with John Gibler

Thursday, June 8, 2006

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al-Zarqawi - source aljazeera - http://english.aljazeera.net/

Today on Flashpoints: The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aids and abets the US killing fields in Iraq; the Center for Constitutional Rights sues a former high-level Israeli official for war crimes and human rights violations; on Earth Matters, Karen Pickett of Earth First! talks about the Green Scare, the latest FBI witch hunt for environmental activists; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

The Bush administration announces yet another reported "death" of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and this time the Pentagon is hoping his death is permanent.

Robert Knight

06:00 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “Killed,” US Continues to Spin Propaganda

US tries to deflect attention from mounting atrocities like Haditha. Who will be blamed for resistance to the US occupation now?

Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent – www.dahrjamailiraq.com

16:00 Music Break

17:00 More on Iraq and US Policy

Ayad al-Qazzaz, professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento, discusses the minor role of Zarqawi in the broadbased domestic Iraqi resistance movement, which should be expected to continue as long as US occupation forces remain in Iraq. Professor al-Qazzaz also points out that it was the US invasion that brought al-Zarqawi into Iraq from Jordan.

33:00 Music Break

Al Soug; About Bagdag Soundtrack

36:00 Prosecuting Extra-Judicial Killings of Civilians in Palestine

On December 8, 2005, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) brought a class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former Director of Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), on behalf of the Palestinians who were killed or injured in a 2002 air strike in Gaza. The attack occurred just before midnight on July 22, 2002, when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb on al-Daraj, a residential neighborhood in Gaza City in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Visit the CCR International Human Rights website.

Maria LaHood, Center for Constitutional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org

45:00 Earth Matters

On December 7th, 2005 federal and local law enforcement began the largest roundup of alleged environmental and animal liberation activists in American history. Amanda Bellerby and Karen Pickett discuss the "Green Scare", a federal program to criminalize dissent to round up and immobilize young activists on property destruction charges to make protest a terrorist activity.

Join the Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare June 9-11, 2006, with events across the US
For information on the American Legislative Exchange Council, visit alecwatch.org
For more on the "Green Scare", visit ecoprisoners.org, fbiwitchhunt.com and Portland IndyMedia

Music clip: "23 Years" by David Rovics, www.davidrovics.com

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Another victim of the attack on the people of San Salvador de Atenco dies after going into a coma; also, we’ll feature a special report on the first Army lieutenant to refuse service in Iraq; veterans and human rights activists educate the public on the real story in Iraq; updates on the cases of death row prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal and Kevin Cooper; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Report from Mexico
John Gibler, FP Special Correspondent

18:00 First US Army Lieutenant to Refuse to Fight in Iraq
Sarah Olson with Ehren Watada

30:00 Education and Resistance to War
Pratap Chatterjee, director, CorpWatch
Eric Gustavson, executive director, Education for Peace in Iraq

47:00 Updates on the Cases of Mumia Abu Jamal and Kevin Cooper
Jeff Mackler and Rebecca Doran – Mobilization to FreeMumia Abu-Jamal

55:00 Kevin Cooper update with Rebecca Doran

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

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Today on Flashpoints: Mahmoud Abbas continues to knuckle under Western pressure and democracy in Palestine pays the price, we’ll hear from Ali Abunimah on the latest internal political chaos; also, an in-depth look at the militarization of the US-Mexico border as National Guard troops head South; a special report from the Arizona border; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

Islamic militias consolidate their control of Somalia
2500 Iraqi prisoners are to be freed this week, but civilian deaths remain at record levels
The US military is accused of new atrocities in Iraq
The US-supervised govenment still has not found acceptable political and military ministers for the sovereign government that are approved by the United States

Robert Knight

06:00 Internal Strife and Continued Attacks in Occupied Palestine

Ali Abunimah, co-founder, ElectronicIntifada.net

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas at a news conference in the Occupied West Bank town of Ramallah June 5, 2006 (MaanImages/Fadi Arouri) - http://electronicintifada.net/

The referendum called by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is supposedly meant to gain public endorsement for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in all the territories occupied in 1967, as set out in a plan agreed by senior Hamas and Fatah leaders held in Israeli prisons. But Abbas' ploy has nothing to do with hastening the creation of such a state, and everything to do with Fatah's inability to come to terms with its defeat in last January's legislative elections.
Read Dangerous Dirty Tricks in Palestine on ElectronicIntifada.net

21:00 Report on Immigrant Rights

Arnoldo Garcia, immigrants rights activist, exposes the draconian provisions of so-called immigration legislation which represents a major shift in US policy and the creation of disposable sub-citizens with partial rights and limited protections. Visit the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR.org) for more information, including a document (pdf format) comparing the Bush, Sensenbrenner and Specter proposals, or call (510) 465-1984.

WE ARE NOT CRIMINALS - Immigrant Rights Protesters - source http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage

44:00 Music Break

46:00 Immigrant Walk for Life

Documentary feature by Alejandro Reyes, FP Special Correspondent, presents the stories, hardships and heartbreak of immigrants trying to cross the border and those who have tried to help them, with some opposing voices.

Monday, June 5, 2006

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Utah governor sends troops to the Arizona border, we’ll have a report from Tucson; also, an international human rights group condemns the Mexican government for their bloody attacks on the people of San Salvador De Atenco; Mahmoud Abbas sets up death squads as US and Israel continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestine; Flashpoints celebrates the international release of Greg Palast’s new book, Armed Madhouse; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Troops at the Border
Jennifer Allen, Border Action Network

16:00 Report from Mexico
John Gibler, FP Special Correspondent

26:00 Iraq, Palestine and the US
As’ad Abu-Khalil, author,
webmaster for angry arab.

38:00 Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse
Greg Palast, author, Armed Madhouse

Event tomorrow night at the Roxie Theater
in SF with Greg Palast!

Friday, June 2, 2006

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Machete-wielding peasants from the town of San Salvador Atenco attend a rally at the
ruins, just a few miles north of Mexico City, Teotihucan, Mexico on Tuesday, April 25,
2006. Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos held a meeting at the ancient pyramids
of Teotihuacan on Tuesday with protesters who opposed the building of a Wal-Mart-owned
store nearby. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) - http://arizona.indymedia.org/

Today on Flashpoints: Those beaten and arrested by the Mexican feds in San Salvador Atenco threaten to go on a hunger strike if they’re not released, we’ll have a report from Mexico; also, a report from Chile on the growing student protest movement and the battle to keep traditional family fisheries alive and thriving in the face of corporate globalization; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Introduction and Discussion

Dennis Bernstein , Francisco Herrera, Miguel Molina

13:00 Report from Mexico

John Gibler, FP Special Correspondent

23:00 Students and Fishermen Fight for Justice in Chile

Sandy Mayson, independent reporter and environmental activist

38:00 Headlines from the Region

Miguel Guerrero and Dennis Bernstein

45:00 Flashpoints en Espanol

Miguel Guerrero with John Gibler

Thursday, June 1, 2006

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Families in Gaza pick up food provided by MECA and partners(photo MECA)

Food parcels provided by MECA and partners for families all over the Gaza Strip, especially single parent households or families with small children. source - http://www.mecaforpeace.org/

Today on Flashpoints: Israel kills 11 Palestinians in the last week and vows to intensify shelling attacks in Gaza; we'll speak to a doctor who is trying to treat those victims of Israeli attacks; we'll also have news headlines from Palestine, Military Families Speak Out against the scapegoating of soldiers for US massacre policy; and the Knight Report

01:00 The Knight Report

US military atrocities are under investigation in Iraq and Afghanistan, while illegally held abductees hold a hunger strike at Gauntanomo
(Robert Knight)

06:00 Eleven Palestinians Killed in One Week, Israel Continues the Terror

Dr. Mona el-Farra, physician, activist, mother
Barbara Lubin, co-founder/director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Help fund food and medical supplies to ease the worsening humanitarian crisis resulting from international sanctions imposed on Palestinans for democratically electing their leaders. Visit www.mecaforpeace.org/GazaMeds.html for details or to make a secure donation.

25:00 News Headlines from Palestine

Kristen Ess, Palestine News Network

Military Families Speak Out - http://www.mfso.org

40:00 Music Break -After the Garden - Neil Young

42:00 Military Families Speak Out

Charley Richardson, co-founder, Military Families Speak Out, an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones in the military. Formed by two families in November of 2002, it maintains contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. Military Families Speak Out membership currently includes over 2,900 military families, with new families joining daily.