Archived Shows - August 2007

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Friday, August 31, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  US authorities close the border at Tijuana in response to major protests,
we’ll speak to Juan Jose Gutierrez at the border; Also, the first rural Day Laborer Center in the country opens in northern California; Nora Barrows-Friedman is back in the studio after a three week tour in occupied Palestine; Housing activists seize government offices in New Orleans; And of course, Flashpoints in Español.

01:00    Introduction by Dennis and Francisco

06:00    Public Housing Residents Seize New Orleans Government Office
Denise Perry, Co-director of New Orleans based Safe Streets
www.safestreetsnola.org

13:00    Immigrants Activists Preparing for Expansive National Boycott
Juan Jose Gutierrez- National Coordinator Latino Movement USA
Rene Saucedo- SF Day Laborer Center

23:00    First Rural Day Laborer Center Opens in USA
Davin Cardenas- Outreach coordinator for Graton Day
Laborer Center Sonoma County


30:00    Report from Palestine
Nora Barrows-Friedman-
FP Senior Producer

38:00    Headlines from  Region
Miguel Guerrero, Dennis Bernstein

40:00    Flashpoints en Español
Julio Hernandez- journalist, La Jornada
www.astillero.tv

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Thursday, August 30, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: The Governor of Texas commutes the death sentence for Kenneth Foster: JR and the Block Report talk to the family about his 11th hour decision to spare Foster's life ; immigrants' rights activists speak out around the country about the expanding crack-downs on undocumented workers and their employers; a noted novelist and Philippine-born activist speaks out about the arrest in Holland of founder of the Communist party of the Philippines; Save the Oaks activists facing off with the UC Berkeley Police: we'll visit one of the sitters in her tree-house, on a fault line at the perimeter of the football stadium; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Corruption, conflict and confusion in Iraq
• An investigation of the fleeing attorney general in Washington
• A reprieve in Texas

Robert Knight

05:00 Immigration Update
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
Jennifer Allen, Executive Director of the Border Action Network. For more information, visit www.borderaction.org or call 520-623-4944.

Read the Border Action Network press release of their campaign to train immigrant and border communities in constitutional and human rights and document violations and abuses in Arizona.

21:00 The Block Report- Governor Of Texas Commutes Death Sentence for Kenneth Foster
Beverly Fisher, cousin of Texas death row prisoner Kenneth Foster
www.blockreportradio.com

27:00 Gonzalez Under Investigation/Katrina
Greg Palast, BBC and Guardian of London contributor, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy discusses new information on the continuing New Orleans tragedy and perspective on the Gonzales resignation earlier this week.

“They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain’t had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that’s just the bottom line.” - Malik Rahim


45:00 The Arrest of Jose Ma. Sison
Noted Filipino novelist and activist, Ninotchka Rosca/GABRIELA Network USA
Read more about the arrest

52:00 Save The Oaks
Ninja, tree sitter in Berkeley, California describes the scene from atop ancient oaks by the UCB football stadium. Tree sitters in the controversial oak grove next to the U.C. football stadium watched Wednesday as workers built a fence around them causing them to be denied access to anyone outside of the fence. The protesters are trying to halt the university's effort to cut down the old growth oak trees.
Read more news. See photos of the fence construction.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
We explore the situation on the ground in New Orleans two years after Katrina hit, the Flashpoints team joins  Malik Rahim and other activists on the bus to a major rally in support of the rebuilding of New Orleans; and the Knight Report.                    

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 On the Bus

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Legendary Haitian leader Father Gerard Jean-Juste on the return from his first visit back to Haiti since being forced out of the country two years ago; also, we'll feature an interview with former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; JR and the Block Report explore the meaning of Black August; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• A farewell to America's greatest attorney general ... since John Mitchell
  

Robert Knight

07:00 Haiti Update/Kidnapping of Lovinsky
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints special correspondent, journalist, filmmaker - We Must Kill the Bandits
Father Gerard Jean-Juste-Haitian Catholic priest, political prisoner
Read Bill Quigley's article on www.haitiaction.net
Watch film trailer for We Must Kill the Bandits on YouTube

25:00 Music Break: We Must Kill the Bandits - Sara Marlo and Mohammed Ali

27:00 Hurricane's Katrina and Rita International Tribunal
Cynthia McKinney- former U.S. Congresswoman
JR and the Block Report
www.blockreportradio.com
internationaltribunal.org

42:00 Music Break: The Coup

43:00 Deeper Meanings of Black August
JR and the Block Report
www.sfbayview.com

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Monday, August 27, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez Quits and head for the Texas Hills; Nora  Barrows Friedman reports from inside Israel's 1968 borders on life under Jim-Crow Israeli style; Also Locked up in New Orleans, a Special Report from the Nation Magazine.

01:00    Nora Reports From Occupied Palestine
Nora Barrows Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer from Occupied Palestine
   
14:00    Poem by Grace Paley:
People in my Family

16:00    Music Break –
I Wish I Knew How It
Will Be To Be Free
- Irma Thomas

18:00   AG Gonzalez Resigns
Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild, and author of  Cowboy Republic,
Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, www.nlg.org
Robert Parry, author of Neck Deep and founder of www.consortiumnews.com


32:00    Music Break – Shelter in the Rain - Irma Thomas

36:00    Locked Up in New Orleans
Robin Templeton, writer, activist. Rosetta  Thomas, mother of James Thomas
Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective

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Friday, August 24, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

Today on Flashpoints: Immigrants rights activists plan a national economic boycott, we speak with Nativo Lopez; Also, John Ross and John Gibler give us an update on Mexico
and talk about the disappearance of over forty people, mostly children, from mountainous communities in Chiapas; Also, writer and activist Grace Paley is remembered; a commentary from Miguel Molina; A mini-concert with Francisco Herrera and la familia Pena-Govea; And of course, Flashpoints in Español.                                                                      

01:00 Dennis and Francisco.                                                                          La Familia Pena-Govea
Grace Paley reading                                                                                    
06:00 Music Break
Live Francisco with La Familia Pena-Govea

07:00 Immigrants Activists Preparing for
Expansive National Boycott

[8:00]  Nativo Lopez- Hermandad Mexicana

14:00 Mini-concert & Disappearances in Chiapas
Miguel Govea- accordion player, Susan Pena- bajo sexton
Members of the La Familia Pena-Govea

22:00 Eye on Mexico
John Ross- journalist, author, poet, regular contributor to The Nation,
CounterPunch, Mexican daily, La Jornada, John Gibler- journalist

40:00 Commentary: Moratorium on War

46:00 Flashpoints en Español
John Ross- journalist, author, poet, regular contributor to The Nation,
CounterPunch, Mexican daily, La Jornada, John Gibler- journalist

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the war-torn city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank; she'll be reporting on a former Israeli torture chamber and childrens' prison; also, an Iraq update with Dahr Jamail; a report on the case of the Cuban Five with one of their lawyers and a leading activist on the case; and we'll hear about the Friends of Sabeel Conference; and the Knight Report

03:00 The Knight Report

• Chaos continues unabated in Iraq while intelligence estimates predict doom for the US puppet regime

Robert Knight

06:00 Report from Nablus
Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank, from the city of Nablus, scene of bloody violence against Palestinians this week in targeted extra-judicial assassinations by Israeli occupation forces in which several children were wounded and killed. www.norabf.com

26:00 Iraq Update
Dahr Jamail, Flashpoints Special Correspondent, with an update on the situation in Iraq. While mainstream media outlets continue to claim that the Iraq war quagmire is improving, a report from Oxfam International points to a rising humanitarian crisis stating that nearly half of the population is in need of emergency assistance. Half the country lives in abject poverty on less than $1/day while the US spends over $50/day for every Iraqi man, woman and child on the war that perpetuates their deplorable living conditions. www.dahrjamailiraq.com

• 1 million killed
• 2 million internally displaced
• 2.5 million have fled Iraq
• 8 million sick and dying in need of emergency aid
• Infant malnutrition has increased 10% over pre-invasion UN sanctions

41:00 Musical Break

42:30 The Case of the Cuban Five
Leonard Weinglass, defense attorney and activist Gloria LaRiva, are interviewed by Dennis Bernstein following the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing in Atlanta this week. For more background, updates, articles and links visit the website of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five

52:30 The Friends of Sabeel North America Conference
Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Childrens Alliance (MECA) discusses the conference

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nora Barrows Friedman in a extended interview with Omar Barghouti,
Founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; A new documentary expose on the 40 year cover-up of the Israeli sinking of the USS Liberty; And the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

04:00 Divesting Israel
Omar Barghouti, Founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the
Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel Nora Barrows Friedman,
Flashpoints Senior Producer from Occupied Palestine

33:00 Music Break – Sparrow – Marcel Khalife

35:00 Remembering the Sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty
Chris Brown, weekly pod cast Crossing the Line producer

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: When Israeli occupation gets really filthy: Nora Barrows Friedman on the ground in Palestine; in Chicago, Aaron Patterson tells the judge and the system where to get off: The Block Report was in the courtroom to bear witness; also, we'll take a close look at the case of the San Francisco 8, through the eyes of family members directly affected by this ongoing program of state-sponsored terrorism; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Washington leaders are now calling for the overthrow of the Bush administration's puppet regime in Iraq

Robert Knight



04:00 When the Occupation Gets Really Filthy
Nora Barrows Friedman reports from occupied Palestine, www.norabf.com
Read Nora's article on Inter Press Service news

21:00 Music Break

23:00 JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton: The Case of Aaron Patterson
JR talks to Fred Hampton about the case and Patterson's response

5:40 Music Break
The Stand by The Coup

42:00 Family Members of the SF 8 Speak Out Against Police Terrorism
With JR and the Block Report

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Monday, August 20, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: 32-year-old Elvira Arellano captured by ICE in L.A. and deported to Mexico, leaving behind her eight-year old son, Saul, a U.S. citizen; former CNN news honcho defends his cozy working relationship with the Pentagon: we'll talk to two prominent media critics about the implications; JR reports on his recent visit with death-row journalist, Mumia Abu Jamal; we'll find out what happens to a black leader, behind bars, when he refuses to capitulate, and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

07:00 Elvira Arellano captured by ICE in LA and deported to Mexico
Juan Jose Gutierrez, Latino USA




17:00 Music Break - Deportee – Joan Baez

19:00 Media-Pentagon Industrial Complex:
Former CNN News Chief in the pocket of the Pentagon
Norman Salomon/Media Columnist,
War Made Easy, In Studio
Jeff Cohen, Media Critic, Author of Cable News Confidential

37:00 Music Break – Rock the Nation – Michael Franti

39:00 Block Report Radio
Jr Reports back on his Visit with Mumia Abu-Jamal

45:00 Introduuction: Live
Also What happens when a black man refuses to capitulate behind bars
www.freemumia.org/, www.blockreportradio.com/

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Friday, August 17, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Homeland Security implements its final immigration solution: tens of thousands of arrests are expected, we'll speak with a leading member of the immigrants rights movement; Also, the Cuban Five are back in court; Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler just back from Chiapas and Oaxaca with a report; The Block Report continues its dialogue with Death Row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal; Headlines from the Region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Introduction and Poetry
Francisco Herrera and Dennis Bernstein

08:00 Next Stage of Home Land Securities Final Solution for Immigration
Juan Jose Gutierrez- Founder of Latino USA

14:00 Music Break                                                                    Peace and Freedom Party -  Gloria LaRiva

17:00 Cuban Five Trial Update
Gloria LaRiva- the Peace and Freedom Party
Candidate for Governor,  a union activist and a long time organizer- Free The Five

20:00 Report Back from Chiapas and Oaxaca

27:00 Block Report Radio
Mumia Abu-Jamal- Award-winning journalist and political prisoner since1982

40:00 Headlines from the Region

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
John Gibler- Global Exchange Human Rights Fellow

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Thursday, August 16, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the West Bank on the continuing tragedies of Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. We'll spend the entire hour with Nora and meet the real victims of occupation. And we'll have the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• New York recovers from a panic in the irrational security complex that was induced by Israeli dis-information.

Robert Knight

05:00 Music Break

07:00 Commentary on Nora's Work in Palestine
Dennis Bernstein, Flashpoints Executive Producer

11:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: Victims Voices
Suha Ziyada, a resdident of Wadi Rahaal, Palestine is interviewed by Flashpoints Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman about daily struggles and injustice under military occupation in the West Bank.
Read MIDEAST: Settlers Anchoring In on Interpress News Service (IPS)
Visit www.norabf.com for photos and information.

Illegal Israeli settlement colony of Efrat near Wadi Rahaal in the West Bank

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

04:00 Who is Elliot Abrams?
Diane Buttu- former advisor to PLO,
human rights lawyer based in Ramallah







25:00 Music Break – Oud Instrumental –
Adel Salameh                                                                                                                 PelosiWatch.org

26:00 Pelosi Encampment
Nancy Mencias- Global Exchange and Code Pink

32:00 Music Break – Crossing the Line – Tracy Chapman

34:00  Women Activists Forbidden to Leave Phillipines
Ona Mirkinson and mother, Judith Mirkinson, Gabriella Network
Dr. Annalisa Enrile, USC Professor and Gabriella Network Chairperson

56:00 Dennis reads Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine Kidnap Press Release

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nelson Mandela's daughter Dr. Maki Mandela comes to town for the first annual Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Summit; also we'll speak with the founder of the Common Ground Collective about a SF Bay Area benefit with noted slam poets; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• A review of the war in Iraq, where nearly 300 are dead and the al-Maliki marionette regime is beseiged from all sides.

Robert Knight

04:00 Sound Break
A clip from Stanely 'Tookie' Williams last Flashpoints interview on December 9, 2005
www.flashpoints.net/archive/archive-2005-Dec-all.html

06:00 First Annual Stanely 'Tookie' Williams Legacy Summit
Dr. Maki Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst
Barbara Becnel, author, journalist, and film producer
www.votebarbarabecnel-gov.com/

35:00 Music Break
Talkin' Bout a Revolution, Tracy Chapman

38:00 Benefit for Common Ground Collective
Sakura Cone, Co-founder Common Ground Collective, www.commongroundrelief.org/
Youth Speaks Slam Poetry Champions, Hollis Wear and Isaac Miller
Broken Ground Benefit, Mission Cultural Center, www.missionculturalcenter.org/

EVENT: Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Summit

VIP Reception 

Guest: Maki Mandela, Ph.D., political activist, cultural anthropologist, daughter of former South African President Nelson Mandela
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The Mechanics Bank
Corporate Headquarters
3170 Hilltop Mall Road
Richmond, CA 94806
$50.00 tax-deductible donation

RSVP: 510-235-9780

First Annual Stanley Tookie Williams
Legacy Summit

Topic: Creating Street Peace and Criminal Justice Reform
Special Speaker: Maki Mandela, Ph.D., political activist, cultural anthropologist, daughter of former South African President Nelson Mandela
Thursday, August 16, 2007
1:30pm - 4:00pm
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, CA 94806
Admission is free.
For more information call 510-235-9780.

EVENT: Common Ground Benefit Concert

Common Ground invites all Bay Area supporters to Broken Ground, a benefit event will take place on August 15th, at the Mission Cultural Center (25th and Mission, San Francisco).

Come check out DJ Raashan Ahmed, Kiwi, Rupert Estanislao Billy White Jazz Quartet live painters and members of Youth Speaks, UC Davis and Berkeley Slam poetry.

Doors open at 7, show starts at 7:30. Tickets are $10 in advance At MCC) or $12 at the door.

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Monday, August 13, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints:Karl Rove Jumps from Bush's Sinking Ship of State;also Nora Barrows Friedman reports from Occupied Palestine, on the arrest of a fourteen year old sheepherder and on a new phony Peace Plan; also an update from Louisiana on the racist trial of the Jena Six, and the knight report.

01:00 The Knight Report

05:00 A Report from Palestine
Nora Barrows-Friedman,
FP Senior Producer

23:00 Music Break –
Save The People Save The Children – Laura Nyro

26:00 Karl Rove Jumps Bush's Sinking Ship
Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com author of Neck Deep, www.consortiumnews.com
Rev Mel White: author of: Religion Gone Bad:The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right

38:00 Music Break – The Bells of Rhymney – Pete Seeger

40:00 Update on the Racist Trial in Louisiana of the Jena Six
Jordan Flaherty, of Left Turn Magazine, www.leftturn.org

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Friday, August 10, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 

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Thursday, August 9, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flasnpoints: We'll feature a special report from the UN on the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima; We'll also take a look at nuclear proliferation in the context of Iran, Iraq and Israel; And we'll remember the life and times of slain Oakland journalist, Chauncey Bailey.

01:00 Remembering Nagasaki
Jacqueline Cabasso at the UN; Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation, with Carah Ong (bio), Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation

25:00 Ani Difranco: What if no one's watching?

23:00 JR and The Block Report, The Murder of Chancey Bailey
JR (The Block Report) with Willie Radcliff, publisher of the SF Bayview Weekly,
and Davey D (Hard Knock Radio).

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from the occupied West Bank on more phony talks regarding a Palestinian state; John Ross reports from Mexico City on the failure of the government to investigate the murder of a U.S. Journalist; We'll have a report from our special correspondent in Chiapas; And a poetic look at the abandonment of Katrina victims, dead and alive.

01:00 Dheisha Camp Update
Nora Barrows-Friedman, FP Executive Producer in Dheisha Refugee Camp,
Occupied Palestine www.norabf.com

15:00 Journalist Killed with Impunity in Mexico
John Ross- FP special correspondent, author, and poet
Read John's article from the SF Bay Guardian.

38 Encounter of the Peoples of the World with the Peoples of the Zapatista Communities
John Gibler, FP special correspondent and Global Exchange Human Rights Fellow
Read some of John's articles on Znet

48:00 In the Margins: Obituary for the Government, Eulogy for the Dead
Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman-Climbing Poetree, spoken word artists

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A large portion of the Iraqi population opposes pro-US Corporate oil laws; we'll take an in-depth look at the resistance to US corporate control of Iraqi oil; also John Pilger speaks at the Socialism 2007 Conference in Chicago.

01:00 Iraqi Refusal of Pro-Corporate U.S. Oil Laws
Antonia Juhasz, author The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time
http://www.thebushagenda.net/
Fellow with Oil Change International
http://priceofoil.org/
Read about the Iraqi Oil Law poll

15:00 Freedom Next Time
John Pilger- filmmaker, author, journalist. Excerpted from a talk delivered at the Socialism 2007 Conference in Chicago in June.
http://www.johnpilger.com/

35:00 KPFA mini Summer Fund Drive


John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker - www.johnpilger.com

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Monday, August 6, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints:  Democrats buckle on bugging laws and amnesty Bush  buggers thousands of illegal wiretaps in the disasterous President G. W. Bush. We'll spend the entire hour deconstructing George W. with the award winning journalist Robert Parry.

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Friday, August 3, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Day Laborer activists from all over the country converge in Washington DC to confront the expanding crack-down against immigrant laborers; also, award-winning Xicanapoet, essayist and novelist Ana Castillo documents both the tragedy and the exalted struggle to fight back by immigrants struggling for dignity and human rights; and excerpts from the film The Power of  Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

01:00 Introduction
Dennis and Francisco

06:00 Update on San Francisco Day Laborer's Center
Rene Saucedo, La Raza Centro Legal

18:00 Human Rights and Immigration Policy
Ana Castillo, author, poet

30:00 Film: The Power of Community –
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Documentary Film

40:00 Break for KPFA fund drive

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Thursday, August 2, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A funny, fascinating and chilling commentary on the state of motherhood in the US: We'll feature excerpts from this hard-hitting documentary, The Motherhood Manifesto, that exposes the systematic undermining of mother's work in this country.

01:00 The Motherhood Manifesto
Documentary film produced by MomsRising.org

40:00 Break for KPFA fund drive

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We continue our covrage of the Bush Administrations's $50 billion weapons package to Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. We'll speak with the Angry Arab Abu Kahlil about the implications. Also, George Bush says he will veto any expansion in the State Childeren's Health Insurance Program which provides insurance for low income families. And we'll hear excerpts of the moving documentary: Buying The War with Bill Moyers.

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