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David Ray Griffin
Fifteen members of the OAS meet with President Zelaya and the coup government in Honduras, but no real solution in sight, we’ll get a report from the Brazilian Embassy, where the President is still holding out; also, we’ll speak to 9-11 investigation expert David Ray Griffin about his new book that focuses in on the collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center.
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Guests:
Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International, Democracy Now! en Espanol
David Ray Griffin, author, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False
Environmental justice
We spend the hour looking at the environmental justice movement, the wins, the losses and the long fights ahead; we speak with Dean Kuipers, author of a brand-new biography on Rod Coronado, the legendary eco-rights and animal-rights activist; also, we’ll hear from longtime activist Mike Roselle and talk about his new book documenting his life and work in the environmental justice movement, including his current struggle to save the mountains of Appalachia from coal strip mining; live music in the studio with political singer-songwriter Dana Lyons; and we’ll hear sounds from the documentary film Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice.
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Guests:
Dean Kuipers, author, Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness
Mike Roselle, author, Treespiker: From Earth First to Lowbagging, My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Dana Lyons, singer-songwriter extraordinaire
Sounds from the film Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice
Amanda Bellerby, co-host
Blood and Politics
Blood and Politics: An in-depth look at the white supremacists and neo-Nazi movement with one of the leading experts in the field; also, a new report documents a trail of human rights violations against immigrants and undocumented workers; and activists planning major protests across the country tomorrow against the expansion of the war in Afghanistan.
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Guests:
Richard Becker, ANSWER Coalition
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Leonard Zeskind, author, Blood and Politics
Noam Chomsky
Dozens of anti-torture activists arrested in Washington today, in a protest against the expanding war in Afghanistan, we’ll speak to Kathy Kelly and a student leader arrested at the protest; also, reactionary elements within the Palestinian Authority continue to collaborate with Israel in suppressing the Goldstone report, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah for a full analysis; plus, JR and the Block Report feature an exclusive interview with a father of one of Oscar Grant’s friends, on the eve of an attempt to change the venue for the killer cop’s hearing; and Noam Chomsky, at 80, speaks about Obama’s Middle East policies in a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance.
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Guests:
Kathy Kelly, Voices of Creative Nonviolence
Jericha Arentzs, anti-torture activist with Witness Against Torture, VCNV
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
Noam Chomsky, leading intellectual – Speaking at Oakland’s Paramount Theater, Oct. 3rd, in a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance
Honduran coup military attacking pro-Zelaya demonstrators (via BBC)
Another teacher killed in Honduras resisting the coup government, we’ll have a report from the funeral which is beginning at this hour, and we’ll go back to the Brazilian Embassy to get a response from President Zelaya on the murder of another educator standing up for democracy; also, we’ll speak to several leading activists in the battle for immigrant worker rights in the Bay Area; and headlines from Project Censored.
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Guests:
Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and FSRN
Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol, Nonviolence International
Gabriel Hernandez, Exec. Director of Hayward Day Labor Center
Father Rigoberto Rivas, Exec. Director of Multicultural Institute in Berkeley
American Indian Movement
We devote the entire hour to the struggle for indigenous rights in North America, we’ll be joined by Jimbo Simmons, reporting on a battle to take back indigenous lands in Northern California; and we’ll feature sounds from American Outrage, a full-length documentary on the struggle of two Shoshone grandmothers struggling to hold onto their farm and land in rural Nevada.
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Jimbo Simmons, American Indian Movement
American Outrage: the film
Censored 2010
Special correspondent Tim Russo reports from the major military crackdown in the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; we’ll also have a report from the Brazilian embassy, where President Manuel Zelaya remains surrounded by security forces; also, on Community Business, we’ll have an expose on Andrew Cuomo and his role in the subprime meltdown; and Peter Phillips briefs us on the new 2010 Project Censored Yearbook.
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Guests:
Tim Russo, FSRN and Flashpoints Special Correspondent
Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol and Nonviolence International
Peter Phillips, Project Censored
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network
Republican Gomorrah
We continue to monitor the volatile situation in Honduras, as the President remains surrounded inside the Brazilian embassy, we’ll have a live report from Tim Russo on today’s resistance activities; and an in-depth look at the vicious new religious right, with award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party.
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Guests:
Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent, FSRN
Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol and Nonviolence International
Max Blumenthal, award-winning investigative journalist, author of Republican Gomorrah
Honduran police at Brazilian Embassy
Special Correspondent Tim Russo reports on a Funeral March for one of the first Victims of the Coup Government’s lethal crack down on the growing resistance:Also a report from Inside the Brazilian Embassy, where president Zeleya is still surrounded by heavily armed pro-coup security forces, and we’ll also feature a round-up of the various human rights violations, since the coup began three months ago.
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Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Espanol, Nonviolence International
Grahame Russell, Rights Action
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