FLASHPOINTS

Angana Chatterji

Today on Flashpoints, we’ll speak to legendary radical environmental activist Mike Roselle about his on-going struggle to end the devastating mining practice of mountain-top removal in the Coal River Mountain Range. Also, We’ll speak to Angana Chatterji about a crucial benefit with Arundhati Roy to support The International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice In Indian-Administered Kashmir; and we’ll get a live report from Miguel Gavilan Molina on a march and rally for immigrants rights taking place in San Francisco.

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Guests:
Miguel Gavilan Molina, Producer, Flashpoints en Espanol
Mike Roselle, Co-founder, EarthFirst
Angana Chatterji, anthropologist and feminist historian

Obama signs the health care bill

Israelis have announced new settlement construction while Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netenayu. We’ll speak with Ali Abunimah and report on the powerful AIPAC meeting. Also, we’ll hear from doctors and nurses about the health care bill signed into law today. And we’ll speak to a former death row prisoner about his work against the death penalty.

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Guests:
Dr. Steffie Wolhandler, Co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program
Chuck Idelson, California Nurses Association
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
Lawrence Hayes, Death row activist
Jack Bryson

Arundhati Roy

The rain has started to fall with hundreds of thousands of Haitians in need of basic food, shelter, and medical care. We’ll feature a special report on the ground in Haiti and talk about the policies that are now being carried out by former Presidents Bush and Clinton. Also, we’ll speak to Arundhati Roy about the expanding war in Afghanistan, the Maoist in central India and about her new book Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers.

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Guests:
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Arundhati Roy, Author and activist

Cesar Chavez y Dolores Huerta

Today we broadcast live from the Center for Spirit, Art and Politics in the Heart of farm-worker country in Sonoma county. We’ll speak with Casimero Alavarez, United Farmworkers Coordinator for Northern California, about the multiple struggles ahead for the UFW, as they prepare to celebrate the birth of UFW founder, Cesar Chavez. We’ll also speak with Chicano Studies Professor Ron Lopez, of Sonoma State University, about the massive budget cuts to public education in California and its particular impacts on brown students in the state. We will also follow-up on a new federal crackdown by ICE on immigrant workers in Sonoma County and Fashpoints in Espanol.

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Co-hosts:
Molly Goss, Miguel Gavilan Molina, and Miguel Perez

Guests:
Casimero Alvarez, UFW/North Bay Coordinator
Ron Lopez, Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University
Evalina Molina

Author Michael Parenti

Today on Flashpoints we continue our ongoing coverage of the wrongful death lawsuit against the state of Israel being brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie. We’ll speak to Rachel’s mom about the trial and new evidence that there was no in-depth investigation of her daughter’s murder. Also, we’ll speak to well-known author and radical political analyst Michael Parenti and we’ll speak with Randy Credico, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York.

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Guests:
Cindy Corrie, mother of Rachel Corrie
Michael Parenti, author, God and His Demons
Randy Credico, Democratic candidate for US Senate

The Will To Resist by Dar Jamail

Today on Flashpoints, special correspondent Dahr Jamail remembers the new forgotten war in Iraq. Also, a revered priest from El Salvador reports on a recent visit to neighboring Honduras where post-coup violence continues to take its toll. And we’ll have our regular weekly segment on community business with Catherine Austin-Fitts.

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Guests:
Dahr Jamail
Father Andres Tamayo
Catherine Austin-Fitts

Rachel Corrie

Today on Flashpoints, on the 7th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, we continue our reporting on the expanding Israeli crackdown in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank. We’ll talk to Nora Barrows-Friedman about continuing clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians and we’ll also hear about a street in Palestine that was named after Rachel Corrie. Then J.R. And the Block Report are back with an update on the tragic criminal injustice of the Scott Sisters in Mississippi.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Maha Shehadi
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
J.R., Block Report Minister of Information

© Billionaires for Bush

Today on Flashpoints, the first corporate campaign for congress, also Flashpoints Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on a massive Israeli crackdown in Arab East Jerusalem and the locking down of the entire West Bank. We’ll also begin our daily coverage of the lawsuit being brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie against the state of Israel for wrongful death and we’ll feature an update on the elections in Iraq with well known dissident-analyst Raed Jarrar – senior fellow with Peace Action – just back from that country.

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Guests:
William Klein, Campaign Manager, Murray Hill for Congress
Craig Corrie, father of Rachel Corrie
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Raed Jarrar, Analyst, Peace Action

Broadcasting live from the Answer Coalition in the Heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: We’ll contine our special reporting on a new ICE federal crackdown against immigrant workers and their familes in Sonoma County in Northern California. We’ll speak to the Prime Minister in Exile from Burma, also known as Myanmar. Then a speak out against the expanding war in Afghanastan, and Flashpoints in Espanol.

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A soldier searches a child in the West Bank

Today on Flashpoints, Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports for the entire hour from the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine. Nora will speak with a traumatized 10 year old arrested twice by soldiers and beaten so badly that he was hospitalized. We’ll hear from the troubled child, his family, and from a child development expert on the multiple impacts the illegal occupation is having on Palestinian children.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer