FLASHPOINTS

Unrepentant

Today on Flashpoints, an encore broadcast of “Unrepentant”, a documentary exposing Canada’s dirty secret about the genocide against Native Peoples.

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The boy with his mother just hours before he was abducted by Israeli soldiers

Israeli forces beat and rearrest 10 year old; Nora Barrows-Friedman talks to the traumatized child and to the family about the 2nd attack on their home in Hebron. Also, Lubna Masarwa, a Palestinian activist from the West Bank, is in-studio to talk about her continuing grassroots organizing against Israeli occupation. Also, we have more excerpts from a recent speech by Ali Abunimah, founder of the Electronic Intifada.net.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Lubna Masarwa, Palestinian Activist
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada.net

A woman grieves after an ICE raid

Today on a special Red Alert edition of Flashpoints, we report live from the Graton Day Labor Center in Sonoma County where Federal ICE agents have just instituted a draconian policy known as the Secure Communities Program. This program will jeopardize thousands of migrant workers and their families in Sonoma County. We’ll devote the entire program to what the local activists here are calling a war on the entire immigrant community.

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Guests:
Julia Harumni Mass, Attorney, ACLU
Richard Coshnear, Immigration Attorney
Ron Lope, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, Sonoma State University

Student and Faculty activists at UC Berkeley

Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the illegal arrests and detention of 10 year old and 12 year old Palestinian brothers by Israeli security forces. Also, a special report from Chiapas Mexico where state security forces are cracking down on indigenous communities who they are falsely accusing of involvement in the drug trade. We’ll hear from Dr. Mads Gilbert who treated the victims of Israel’s use of unconventional weaponry in last years attack on Gaza. And students and teachers protest budget cuts all over the state.

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Guests:
Alejandro Reyes, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Dr. Mads Gilbert, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent

Vaccination line at a Liberian refugee camp, ©Doctors Without Borders

Featuring a speak out by student activists who are a part of an all day action tomorrow across California to protest the crippling cutbacks in the educational system from K through college. Also, we’ll be joined by award winning investigative reporter Greg Palast who will talk about his new investigation into vulture hedge-funds preying on poverty stricken Liberia.

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Guests:
Elizabeth Rodriguez, Student/Education for All
Sarah Knopp, High School Teacher in Los Angeles/United Teachers of L.A.
Christina Urista, UCB Student Organizer/Oakland High School Outreach
Quetzalli Martinez, SFSU Student Organizer
Kimberly Guzman, 11th Grader Organizer
Edres Diaz, 12th Grader Organizer
Randall Gustamante – High School Teacher, Mandela High School
Greg Palast, Investigative Journalist, BBC

Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank

Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman begins the first of a month long series of frontline reports in occupied Palestine. Also, The People Speak, a powerful documentary based on the voices from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Senior Producer, Flashpoints

Today on Flashpoints, we feature a troubling and shocking documentary on the hidden history of genocide against indigenous people of Canada by the church and the state; we’ll interview a whistle-blower who lost his job trying to reveal the dastardly acts and the cover up that continues to this day.

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Immigrant Rights are Human Rights

Today on Flashpoints Francisco Herrera and Miguel Gavilan Molina join Dennis for a discussion on the new Civil Rights movement and the continuing struggle for immigrant rights. Then, leaders of the American Indian movement speak out against the denial of parole for Leonard Peltier.

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Guests:
Renee Saucedo, Attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza
Francisco Herrera, Musician and Flashpoints co-host
Miguel Gavilan Molina, Producer, Flashpoints en Espanol

Haitian President Rene Preval with Bush in 2006

Today on Flashpoints, we will be speaking to special correspondent Kevin Pina about new revelations that President Preval secretly participated in the 2004 U.S. sponsored coup against Aristide. Also, Ali Abunimah speaks about the future of the movement to end Israeli occupation of Palestine, and much more.

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Guests:
Kevin Pina, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada

Financial Coup d'etat

Today on a special edition of Flashpoints, we’ll spend an entire hour w/Catherine Austin-Fitts. Catherine will review what she means by a financial coup d’etat, the latest scandals surrounding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and what you can do to fight back in your communities against tapeworm economics.

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Guests:
Catherine Austin-Fitts