FLASHPOINTS

Students protest budget cuts and rising tuition costs

We’ll get an update on the situation in Honduras, where President Zelaya is still holding out in the Brazilian Embassy there, while the resistance movement continues to take to the streets; also, we’ll speak to a veteran teacher in the community college system in California about the impact of budget cuts at the two-year level; we’ll also be joined by Peter Phillips, who has a new article about the real causes for the financial meltdown at the Universities and Colleges; and Kevin Pina will be in the studio for an update on the situation in Haiti as he heads out to the region.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now

Grahame Russell, Rights Action

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, educators and editors/directors of Project Censored

Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent to Haiti

Lynne Stewart

We’ll feature an update on the ongoing battle by UC Berkeley students fighting massive tuition increases and cutbacks at the University of California and other state-run campuses; also, we’ll take a look at the case of people’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, who was jailed unexpectedly by the state; and we’ll hear about a new film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Lynne Stewart with Ralph Pointer

Emily Kunstler and Joey Johnson

Reuben Caneda and student activists

Reports from UC Berkeley Campus as students were arrested, protesting fee hikes and privatized education; and how cutbacks are affecting working class and students of color; and Project Censored headlines.

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Dialogues Against Militarism

In an unprecedented move, Iraq and Afghanistan war resisters from the United States meet with their Israeli counterparts known as refuseniks to strategize and plan future actions to resist militarism; and three Mayors from El Salvador’s FMLN party visit the United States and meet with key officials in San Francisco.

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Guests:

Sarah Lazare, Stephen Funk, Eddie Falcon, and Clare Baird, Dialogues Against Militarism

Roberto Alvarado, Izalco; Francisco Estrada, Santa Ana; and Jose Minero, Delgado – Mayors of Cities in El Salvador

John Ross

Former economic hit-man John Perkins talks about his new book, Hoodwinked: Why the World Financial Markets Imploded And What We Need to Do to Remake Them; also, our special correspondent and globetrotting troublemaker John Ross talks about his new book as well, El Monstruo – Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, the most conflictive megalopolis in the Americas; UC Berkeley students wage a massive walkout and strike against rising fees and privatized education; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

John Perkins, author, Confessions of an Economic Hitman; Hoodwinked

John Ross, author, El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

Students from UC Berkeley Protests and Walkout

Music by Jim Page

Domestic Workers United

We broadcast live from the Women’s Building in San Francisco, where immigrant domestic workers have begun to organize at the national level for worker and human rights; we’ll speak to some of the leading activists and organizers in this quest for the rights of immigrant domestic workers; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

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Guests:

Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO in Washington DC

Hillary Roden, attorney with Day Labor program at La Raza Centro Legal

Maria Luna

Andrea Miccado, Pat Freswah and Aijen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Brother Blue / design by Warren Lehrer

There’s no genius behind Disney’s Baby Einstein products, just a sales pitch for harmful material; also, a remembrance of one of this country’s most significant African-American storytellers, Brother Blue; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Dr. Allen Kanner, psychologist, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Warren Lehrer, book artist

Brother Blue

Aoki: The Film

On Veteran’s Day, Military Families Speak Out against the expanding war in Afghanistan; also, a remembrance about the bee that saved my veteran father’s life; the AFL-CIO expands its involvement in representing migrant day laborers; plus, a new film documentary about the only Japanese-American to rise through the ranks of the Black Panthers; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, Military Families Speak Out

Eddie Acosta, AFL-CIO

Ben Wang, Director, AOKI

Music by: Jim Page, Matthew Owens and Adam Kathman

Pvt. Michael Kern

A Private at Fort Hood attempts to hand-deliver a letter against the expanding war to President Obama during today’s memorial service, we’ll speak to the active-duty veteran soldier who says that while Secret Service destroyed his letter, he’s determined to get it to the President; we’ll also be joined by Dahr Jamail, who has written extensively about the growing GI resistance movement; plus, Andy Worthington, the director of a troubling new film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, live in the studio; on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, she’ll talk about the permanent war budget and its implications for the ongoing theft of people’s money; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Private Michael Kern, Iraq Vets Against the War, active-duty Iraq veteran at Fort Hood

Dahr Jamail, journalist and Flashpoints special correspondent, author, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Andy Worthington, co-director, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

Malalai Joya

We’ll speak to a courageous, young Afghan parliamentarian suspended from Parliament for speaking out against the growing corruption and the rise of warlords in US-occupied Afghanistan; also, former Palestinian political prisoner speaks out against the ongoing and systematic torture meted out in Israeli prisons; plus, we’ll hear about an action by the American Indian Movement against the racist use of Indian names for mascots in professional sports; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Malalai Joya, former Afghan Parliamentarian, author, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Raise Her Voice

Ala’ Jaradat, program manager of Addameer Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights Organization

Jimbo Simmons, American Indian Movement