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Followup Nov 15 by Huwaida Arraf re: actions planned Flashpoints Nov 13
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ISRAELI FORCES CARRY OUT VICIOUS ARRESTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVISTS! Peaceful protests attacked - [JAYYOUS, QALQILIA] Nov 14, the Israeli military arrested nine international and one Israeli peace activist after gassing and shooting rounds of live ammunition into a crowd of approximately 200 Palestinian men, women, and children who, accompanied by 30 International volunteers, staged a peaceful protest and sit-in at the site of Israeli destruction of Palestinian agricultural land. Huwaida's indymedia post | her report | her photos
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Friday, Nov 15, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Leslie Kean: introduction:  interview with two American activists in Baghdad.. US military now requiring US high schools to provide students' personal contact information.. interview with the Irish author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday
-00:50 Leslie: now w two activists in Baghdad.. Elizabeth Roberts, and Elias Amidon with Voices in the Wilderness.. Elizabeth: we got here a week ago.. having lots of interviews with hospitals, Red Cross, humanitarian aid.. as Iraqi citizens wait for war.. surprising the lack of physical preparation.. one family storing up a little extra kerosine.. you don't see any extra military presence.. people were given an extra months food rations.. most are either eating it all or are selling the surplus the food for getaway cash.. if war comes many will go hungry.. in 1991 a US missile hit a crowded bomb shelter, killing 500 children.. no faith in bomb shelters anymore.. no flags, no loudspeakers.. we're surprisingly safe.. like any major Arab city.. hospitality wide open.. they say you're welcome, you're welcome.. they make a distinction between US and.. now w Elias: no evacuation plans.. if there were plans we would know.. Iran putting up refugee camps on their borders.. about a possible ground war inside Baghdad.. the people I've asked say that if the US attacks them they will fight.. even people who do not support Saddam.. a French reporter says he doubts it.. I can't tell.. a sense of relief when Saddam agreed to let the weapons inspectors back in.. but a lot of people are cynical, war is coming.. the sanctions still greatly affect everyone.. everyone is exhausted, poor, very little to eat.
-15:00 music break
-17:00 Leslie: now w David Goodman, author of the article, No Child Unrecruited, in this month's Mother Jones.. David: a new child education bill.. 678 page law.. requires all high schools in the US to provide names, addresses, and phone numbers of students to military recruiters.. under the radar.. parents can opt out.. but many parents know about it.. schools aren't telling them.. schools don't even know.. ask your school principal about it.. Rumsfeld sending letters to school administrators.. intimidation.. if schools don't comply: stiff sanctions, cut off of aid.. a visit from a uniformed officer.. complaint to the Dept of Defence.. the State Governor calls next.. students and families can organize.. explain to parents they can opt out.. now w Drew Smith, a 16 year old junior from Sir Francis Drake High in Marin County, California.. Drew: I think it is an absolutely rediculous thing, to slip one paragraph into a 678 page law giving up our civil liberties.. I'm planning to opt out, and I'm telling my friends about it too.. it should be the other way around (opt in).. David: the military discriminates against gays and lesbians.. this law overrules local laws banning recruiters from schools..
-27:50 Leslie: teacher, Paul Giffo, of Sir Francis Drake High, and parent, Christina Doddsworth Heath.. now w Paul: this provision neatly tucked away.. we wouldn't know about it, if not for KPFA and publications like Mother Jones.. legislation is not supposed to be stealthily made; rather supposed to be openly debated.. as an educator I am not going to act as an arm of the state, and encourage my students to go off and shoot people.. we're going to have a panel discussion by students for students.. now w Christina: I am really really disgusted.. sad that we're so complacent.. why isn't our news giving us news.. why does the military want this information?.. we're so numb to this propaganda.. this is serious, this is a war, this is not a joke.. today they're saying Americans must prepare for the worst possible terrorist attack.. we need to say no to fearmongering.. without KPFA and magazines like Mother Jones.. if we don't make a stand, we're going to be dragged out in the streets like in Gernmany in WWII.. Paul: I wouldn't be surprized if many school districts are just finding out about this.. I'm hoping school districts take a stand.
-36:10 music break
-37:00 Leslie: on January 30,  1972 British paratroopers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Derry.. the infamous Bloody Sunday.. now w Don Mullan.. author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday.. made into a film, Bloody Sunday.. Don: it was my first civil rights march, 15 years old.. a lovely day.. we had no idea we were going to be attacked.. tear gas.. stones thrown.. a commotion behind.. I could see paratroopers.. then the shooting began.. two feet away, Michael Kelly gasped as a bullet hit him..  a bullet hit above my head.. I lost memory of three minutes.. a primeval instinct took control of me.. 13 dead.. a very terrifying experience.. a life changing event for me and many others.. to witness British murdering us.. and later to hear the media lies.. the official whitewash.. many came to the conclusion that there was no such thing as British justice.. led to the rise of the IRA and hundreds of additional deaths over the years.. about internment.. our movement inspired by the black civil rights movement in the United States.. the Protestant parliment.. the British army moved in.. non-violent leaders put in internment camps..  about the new documentary, Bloody Sunday.. a co-operative effort between British producers, Greengrass and Mark Redhead, and Don.. great reviews.. we all have to accept that terrible things were done in all our names.. we all have blood on our hands.. none of us is innocent.. but we need to find a way to live in dual respect and celebrate our religious and cultural differences.. an important piece of cinema photography.. significant evidence ignored by the Lord Chief Justice Of England.. troops high on the ramparts firing down into the crowd.. Tony Blair announced the setting up of a new tribunal.. hope this film inspires people stuggling for human rights around the globe..
-55:00 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-55:45 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Thursday November 14, 2002 - Linda Evans, a former woman political prisoner and two Puerto Rican women activists talk about Vieques.. about this weekend's National Conference on Civil Rights at UC Berkeley.. the truth about military use of depleted uranium
Wednesday November 13, 2002 - It's about more than oil, the US and Britain want to redraw the entire map of the Middle East.. Israel continues to steal Palestinian Arab land.. Rainforest Action Network targets CitiGroup.
Tuesday November 12, 2002 - A troubling human rights report says 4 million people could die in a new Iraqi war; are weapons inspections an alternative to war or a prelude to war?.. 2,500 California prisoners in solitary confinement, some go on hunger strike to protest the 'lousiest' lockups in America.
Monday November 11, 2002 - Flashpoints Veterans Day Special: veterans' stories of past wars and how to resist the next one.. devoted today to those who risked their lives.. phone in show with Dennis Bernstein and Barbara Lubin..
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Friday November 8, 2002 - interview with Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness in Baghdad.. Diana Buttu, PLO legal advisor.. US groups rally on Monday to demand weapons inspections at Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley.
Thursday November 7, 2002 - the world one step closer to war, new UN Resolution almost approved, interview with Dennis Halliday.. in depth look at Indonesia after the Bail bombing, interviews with Kurt Biddle and Sylvia T. Wan
Wednesday November 6, 2002 - US war machine sets up a forward fighting base in Dijbuoti.. SEC chief Harvey Pitt resigns under a cloud, about the Corporate Roques Gallery operating in the Bush Administration.. Interviews with Charles Cobb Jr. and Tyson Slocum
Tuesday November 5, 2002 - CIA roadside air-sniper missile killings in Yemen, interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Francis Boyle, Marjorie Cohn.. and John Junkerman, director of Power and Terror, a new film about Noam Chomsky
Monday November 4, 2002 - John MacArthur publisher of Harpers Magazine: how Democrat Tom Lantos leads the propaganda machine against Iraq.. hear from Lantos's opponent, Maad Abu-Ghazalah.. Greg Palast on tomorrow's rigged election in Florida
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Friday November 1, 2002 - about the US's deadly discrimination against Haitian immigrants.. interview w Leonard Peltier's daughter, Marquita.. Jewish settler violence at an all time high as Palestinian farmers try to harvest their olives
Thursday October 31, 2002 - FTAA protests start today in Ecuador.. Death row in Illinois.. Arab Film Festival starts in Berkeley, SF, and San Jose
Wednesday October 30, 2002 - Jewish settlers kidnap and torture Odnan Ahmed, a Palestinian olive picker.. interview w Tariq Ali on the US 'War On Terror' in the Middle East and Latin America.. National workers strike in Colombia
Tuesday October 29, 2002 - death toll from the storming of the Russian theater continues to rise, about the gas agent used.. implications for bio/chem warfare treaties.. arrests, violence increase against Palestinian civilians..
Monday October 28, 2002 - COMPLETE AUDIO: John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation
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Friday October 25, 2002 - Venezuelan military plots a new coup.. secret FTAA meetings in Ecuador.. Jeb Bush on the ropes in Florida?.. about tomorrow's anti-war protests in SF and DC.
Thursday October 24, 2002 - about the giant anti-war mobilizations this coming Saturday.. more from John Pilger, about his excellent new documentary, Palestine Is Still The Issue.
Wednesday October 23, 2002 - John Pilger, new film documentary, 'Palestine Is Still The Issue', on the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation
Tuesday October 22, 2002 - excerpts from 'The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm' documentary, about depleted uranium.. Ramsey Clark on US as renegade state.. Vieques update
Monday October 21, 2002 - US continues to backtrack on Iraq war.. about 'Winning the War, Losing the Peace', a new documentary about the misery and poverty in post-war Afghanistan.
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Friday October 18, 2002 - more excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. conversation w Barbara Lubin back from Iraq and occupied Palestine.. Action Alert for October 26
Thursday October 17, 2002 - excerpts from the documentary, The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm.. protests planned this Friday over the ongoing medical abuses of California prisoners.
Wednesday October 16, 2002 - Robert Fisk on the Bali bombing, war on Iraq.. a new documentary on the Pinochet arrest.. interview with Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler, the producers of Unprecedented: 2000 Presidential Election
Tuesday October 15, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
Monday October 14, 2002 - excerpts from an excellent new documentary on the stealing of the US 2000 presidential election.. US reveals secret testing of chemical warfare agents on unsuspecting US citizens.. Vieques update
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Friday October 11, 2002 - Marwan Bishara on the perils facing the Middle East.. Starhawk leads protests at the SF Federal Building and Diane Fein$tein's office.. more excerpts from The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 2) Thursday October 10, 2002 - about a great new documentary, The Trials of Henry Kissinger (part 1) Wednesday October 9, 2002 - Ramsey Clark, just back from Iraq.. Greg Palast on Hugo Chavez.. Oklahoma bombing victim, Bud Clark, speaks out on the death penalty.. 250 SF garment workers win lawsuit for unpaid wages Tuesday October 8, 2002 - The Case Against War, w Professor Stephen Zunes.. South African anti-apartheid veterans target Israel.. Bush invokes Taft Hartley against West Coast ILWU Monday October 7, 2002 - Israeli missile strike kills 14 Palestinian civilians including four children.. interviews with Netta Jorgesen in Gaza.. International Solidarity Member, Adam Shapiro.. Professor of Political Science, As'ad Abu-Khalil
* * * * * * * * * * * *Friday October 4, 2002 - interview w authors of the new book, 'Freedom'.. Oakland police scandal.. Queer prison activists.. about the 'Forum on Peace' workshop and 'Not In Our Name' demonstrations this weekend.
Thursday October 3, 2002 - Conversation with a man who spent four years on Oklahoma death row for a crime he didn't commit.. Activists ready for FTAA summit in Ecuador this coming Halloween
Wednesday October 2, 2002 - an hour with M. J. Akbar, Indian newspaperman, and author of The Shade of Swords; Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity.
Tuesday October 1, 2002 - 18 people die in Kashmir during elections.. interview w Dr. Angana Chatterji.. Norman Solomon: delegation to Iraq returns; Congressman Dennis Kucinich speech in Berkeley two weeks ago.
Monday September 30, 2002 - 350,000 march in London.. *National Security Strategy*.. rightwing *Campus Watch* website targets US academics.
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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light--not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves--who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous ?
Actually, who are you--not to be ?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small-- doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
We are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others.
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My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there
but in despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack of what is found there.
-- William Carlos Williams
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