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Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002 - Start Audio 
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: huge oil slick hits the coast of Spain.. report from protests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.. Kathy Kelly's Iraqi Journal.. Sierra Club threatening its Glen Canyon (So. Utah) chapter for speaking out against Bush's war plans
-00:49 Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert:  Weapons inspectors pour over one of Saddam's palaces.. Turkey says its airbases can be used by the US.. Wolfowitz in Ankara.. South Koreans send a delegation to Washington DC., to protest the death of two children.. (audio of woman describing the 120,000 US crimes committed in South Korea since the Korean War).. 130,000 Koreans sign petition demanding a Bush apology.. Iraq lodges a complaint against the US for killing four workers at a petroleum plant.. Pentagon says civilian casualties not given much attention.. the oxymoronic concepts of *military intelligence* and *precision bombing*.
-06:32 Dennis: continuing coverage of huge oil slick hitting Spain.. now on the beach w Nick Jenkins of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.. Nick: a dolphin washed up and died.. thousands of sea birds killed.. 250 being treated.. a tragedy on our hands.. lost 15,000 birds so far.. the majority of the slick has not come ashore.. 9000 tons of oil.. a national maritime park here.. in the worst area, thick oil covering everything.. 900 volunteers.. grim and depressing.. a massive number of local people working together.. difficult seeing all the dead wildlife.. but harder to take, those struggling to live.. Dennis: what kind of wildlife?.. Nick: 19 species affected so far.. razorbills, cormorans, puffins.. and a couple very rare endangered bird species.. this is a marvelous coastline.. the world's greatest mussel producing area.. 4,500 fisherman told to stop fishing, they are still working though, cleaning the coast.. a very warm and loving community here.. a Hawaiian friend says this community has the 'Aloha Spirit'.. genuinely concerned.. this is damaging their future for many years to come.. Dennis: Greenpeace is saying that the Spanish goverment is failing.. Nick: I couldn't say, but the local government is certainly trying hard.. about the process of rescuing, washing, and rehabilitating the birds.. Dennis: what will you do if the situation gets much worse?.. Nick: we have contingency plans, but we hope it does not get worse.. enormous numbers of birds would die out at sea, before we ever see them..
-19:27 Dennis: thousands of supporters of Aristide in the streets today confronting hundreds of anti-Aristide protestors.. now w Kevin Pina, independent filmmaker and special Flashpoints correspondent in Port-au-Prince.. Kevin: the anger was uncontainable.. remember these people are starving.. they see the 'Convergence' as a proxy of US foreign policy.. see themselves as being made to suffer for their democratic choices.. Dennis: the Convergence protest over the death of a journalist a year ago.. Kevin: neither Aristide nor anyone else could contain this anger.. these are the poor.. given hope by Aristide, the genie out of the bottle.. saying enough is enough with the games.. telling the US you are not going to overthrow our government.. Kevin: in the streets today.. Convergence demostration chanting pro-military slogans.. the Aristide supporters exploded and attacked the Convergence.. to the credit of Lavalas, no one was seriously injured.. the Aristide/Lavalas supporters are the same people physically hurt by previous military government.. I saw people out there without legs and arms shouting at the Convergence..
a campaign of destabilization, prices up 40%.. the poor are angry.. I heard Lavalas people chanting, 'if civil war is what you want, civil war is what you'll get'.. Dennis: 20,000 M16s and 900 US advisors sent to neighboring Dominican Republic.. Kevin: the people are resolutes, their voice has been heard finally, and they are willing to fight and die for their dignity..
-30:00 music break
-30:50 Dennis: now with this week's Kathy Kelly's Iraqi Journal.. Kathy: I'm in Baghdad with Voices in the Wilderness.. five new people came in today.. we're taking up residence and will be here if US attacks.. to represent the average Iraqi.. today we're aware of Tony Blair's release of a dossier about Iraqi human rights abuses.. Amnesty International saying it's not fair to use abuses from the 80's to justify an attack now.. the primary violation of human rights against the Iraqi people is the US led sanctions.. about a neighborhood I visited today.. streets full of sewage and garbage, a one room home.. a man with a family, is working double shifts trying to get by.. a small space heater.. a patio in front with a cookstove and latrine.. a tiny baby will die unless she gets heart surgery.. the grandmother with one leg and a broken wheelchair.. made us a meal, a sign of great graciousness.. if they are to see any change in the future, will probably be a massive bombardment.. about another house we visited.. women, one a teacher makes 5 dollars a month.. their aged mother, asks me, "where I hide?".. in 1991 she just stood in the corner.. and we're aware that the bombing hasn't stopped, it is continual.. the US bombed the Iraqi Oil Company.. we know five fathers who work there.. do those people represent a threat to the US?..
-39:39 music break
-40:54 Dennis: the Sierra Club threatening to disband its Glen Canyon chapter for speaking out against Bush's war on Iraq.. now w Patrick Diehl, vice chairman of the (Southern Utah) Glen Canyon chapter.. Patrick: we disagreed with the tepid statement by the Sierra Club on Iraq, and the lack of input.. we were not consulted at all.. Bush wanting perpetual war.. about the Glen Canyon statement on Bush's war for oil (excerpt): "The present administration has declared its intention to achieve total military dominance of the entire world. We believe that such ambitions will produce a state of perpetual war, undoing whatever protection of the environment that conservation groups may have so far achieved.".. Patrick: we were incensed at the one sided Sierra Club resolution (actually three resolutions, Patrick lists their point by point objections).. Dennis: I just spoke to Allan Madison with the Sierra Club.. Patrick: the Sierra Club failure's to say anything against Bush..just faulting Iraq.. about the threat from Sierra Club HQ.. Dennis: why your strong feelings?.. Patrick: the Club's stand is calculated to antaganize members.. it is imperative for the environmental movement to ally with the peace movement.. or we won't be able to stand up to Bush.. the Club's strategy is a disaster.. Patrick: the bombing in the Balkans, massive environmental damage in a just a few hours.. Bush's perpetual war.. a constant environmental beating, and curtailing civil liberties, and suppressing dissent.. for environmental organizations to stand weakly by.. a betrayal of their responsibilities and the planet.. Dennis: if (Sierra Club president) Karl Pope bans you?.. Patrick: the four of us will not back down.. we've crossed the Rubicon.. our chapter full of activists, we'll continue our work.. we thought it important to stand up and take action.. Patrick: how you can help?.. please email a message of support for us to the Board of the Sierra Club and/or to us in the Glen Canyon Chapter.. (or email both groups together
).. Patrick: or call me at 435-826-4778
-55:30 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-56:06 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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Monday December 2, 2002 - Africa suffers under Terror, the US War on Terror.. interview with ex-CIA agent, Phillip Agee living in Cuba.. the second wave of a massive oil spill threatens the coast of Spain
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Friday November 29, 2002 - excerpts from a recent speech by award winning British journalist, Robert Fisk, on happenings Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and Palestine
Thursday November 28, 2002 - THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: about the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by American Indian tribes, and excerpts from a recent documentary, 'Alcatraz is not an Island'
Wednesday November 27, 2002 - Israeli forces invade Dheisheh with tanks and attack dogs.. Allegra Pacheco on the arrest of her husband in Bethlehem.. Peter Cornbluh about Henry Kissinger's appointment to head Bush's 9/11 inquiry.. Interview with Henry (or is it an imposter?) in his own words.
Tuesday November 26, 2002 - Israeli soldiers open fire on a crowd of children.. US right wingers try to destabilize Haiti.. interview with Nat Hentoff about our disappearing civil liberties.
Monday November 25, 2002 - Israeli soldiers assassinate a UN worker, and harrass others.. why the media attack on the Saudis now?.. E.U. lawsuit accuses R.J. Reynolds of money laundering for drug cartels and Saddam Hussein
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Friday November 22, 2002 - interview with award winning London Independent journalist, Robert Fisk, in studio.. live report from Kevin Pina in Haiti, about the protests today in support of president Aristide.
Thursday November 21, 2002 - a dangerous renaissance of nuclear power around the world.. interview with a new Palestinian film maker, director of Crossing Calandia.. peace activist Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center..
Wednesday November 20, 2002 - Largest oil spill in history off the coast of Spain, Greenpeace says we tried to warn them.. drug-running Colombian general's US visa yanked en route to Israel.. Interview with Alexander Cockburn of Counterpoint, about lefty Christopher Hitchens and his bomb Iraq policy..
Tuesday November 19, 2002 - new NATO 'Find and Strike' force to operate outside international law.. extended wire taps approved by a U.S appeals court.. Homeland Security Act rider protects drug manufacturers from being sued for defective vaccines..
Monday November 18, 2002 - Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter, hired by the Pentagon to play big brother.. Mexico's new role as US southern security guard.. Kathy Kelly's Baghdad Journal.. Updates from Gaza and the West Bank..
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Friday November 15, 2002 - 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, about the massacre by British paratroopers, Jan 20, 1972
Thursday November 14, 2002 - Linda Evens, 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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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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