FLASHPOINTS

Honduran troops near Brazilian Embassy (via BBC/AFP)

We continue our drumbeat coverage from the streets and inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as the situation remains tense and as Honduran forces allegedly attack the embassy building with chemical weapons; we’ll talk about the role of the  School of the Americas in the coup; also, University students maintain their militant protests against tuition hikes, budget cuts and the privatization of education in California; American Indian Movement leader Tony Gonzales reports-back on a major indigenous gathering in California and updates the case of Leonard Peltier.

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Guests:

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now! en Español, Nonviolence International

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News and Flashpoints correspondent

Lisa Sullivan, SOA Watch

Martin Sanchez, SF Consul General for Venezuela

Christopher Barkan, UC Santa Cruz graduate student – http://occupyca.wordpress.com/

Tony Gonzales, AIM West

Crude: The Real Price of Oil

We return to the Brazilian consulate in Tegucigalpa for a live report on the continuing standoff between President Manuel Zelaya and the illegal coup government of Roberto Micheletti; we’ll also have a report on the coast-to-coast and statewide emergency walk-outs today within the public education system, based on massive cutbacks and privatization; and Crude, a new documentary film that chronicles an epic battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Sounds from the UC Berkeley Student Protest and Walk-Out Against Tuition Hikes and Privatization of Schools (recorded by Eric Klein)

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and Free Speech Radio News

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Dr. Juan Almendares, physician and human rights activist in Tegucigalpa

Grahame Russell, Rights Action

Joe  Berlinger, filmmaker, CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil (Opening in theaters tomorrow!)

Paul Paz y Miño, Managing Director,  Amazon Watch

Zelaya supporters in Tegucigalpa

PRESIDENT MANUEL ZELAYA SPEAKS LIVE ON FLASHPOINTS

The Honduran coup government continues to crack down, re-instituting martial law today at 5pm local time, we’ll follow Tim Russon on a demonstration in defiance of the coup government and we’ll speak to a leading human rights doctor about the killings and other human rights violations that have taken place in the last 72 hours since President Zelaya’s return.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and Free Speech Radio News

Dr. Juan Almendares, Human Rights activist and physician

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

PRESIDENT MANUEL ZELAYA, speaking from inside the Brazilian Embassy

(For non-KPFA affiliates only) Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Honduran Police at Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa

We continue our drumbeat reporting on the bold return of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to Tegucigalpa yesterday, we’ll speak to our reporters standing by with President Zelaya inside the Brazilian embassy that remains surrounded by Honduran security forces; and we’ll also have a report on dozens of activists who are reporting serious human rights violations by the Honduran police and military in an all-day curfew and crackdown.

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Guests:

Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and Free Speech Radio News

Andres Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International and Democracy Now!

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya

MANUEL ZELAYA RETURNS TO HONDURAS!

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya defies US wishes and returns to Tegucigalpa to join the people’s resistance, we’ll have a series of reports from Honduras and around the region on Zelaya’s bold return.

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Tim Russo, FP Special Correspondent and reporter with Free Speech Radio News

Al Giordano, NarcoNews

American Outrage

We feature the new documentary, American Outrage, about the battle for two elderly Native American sisters fighting to keep their land in Nevada; also, a special report on what happens to immigrants and undocumented workers after they’re swept up by ICE and corralled to secret detention centers; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Professor Tryon Woods, Criminal Justice professor at Sonoma State University

Sounds from the film: American Outrage

Max Blumenthal

An in-depth look at Glenn Beck and the new extreme right with Nation writer Max Blumenthal and his new book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party; also, a new United Nations report accuses Israel of potential major war crimes and crimes against humanity during its recent bombing siege and attacks on Gaza, we’ll speak to the top UN investigator for human rights in occupied Palestine, Richard Falk.

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Richard Falk, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Max Blumenthal, award-winning investigative reporter and author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party

EVENT IN THE BAY AREA:

Tuesday, 9/29, 7:30pm
BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS
(sponsored by KPFA Radio)
First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley

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US bombs Somalia using attack helicopters

A special report by Robert Knight on the recent US bombing and extra-judicial assassinations in Somalia; also, Temple University professor and Mumia Abu Jamal expert Linn Washington updates the case of Mumia and reveals further government misconduct; and our regular weekly segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts.

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Guests:

Linn Washington,  Professor of Journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia and a weekly columnist for The Philadelphia Tribune

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Anthrax War - Dead Silence

Anthrax Wars: the provocative new film about the untold story of the 2001 US anthrax attacks and the dark secrets of the shadowy world of modern-day germ weapons research; we’ll also feature the book, Dead Silence, by the same filmmakers of Anthrax War.

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Eric Nadler, author and filmmaker, Anthrax War and Dead Silence

NDLON Fifth National Assembly

We broadcast live from the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District at the International Answer Coalition, and we devote the entire hour to the battle for immigrants rights; we’ll be joined by Pablo Alvarado, the executive director of the National Day Labor Organizing Network, and other key national leaders in the struggle for immigrants’ rights; also, a hunger fast on the Capital steps for Leonard Peltier, whose birthday is tomorrow; and on Flashpoints en Espanol, Alvarado joins us to talk about the immigrants rights struggle.

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Pablo Alvarado, Exec. Director of National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON)

Maria Marroquien, National Board of NDLON, director of Redwood City Day Labor Center

Salvador Reza, Leading activist for immigrants rights in Phoenix, AZ

Davin Cardenas, co-founder, Graton Day Labor Center and National Board, NDLON