FLASHPOINTS

Today On Flashpoints: We speak with the president of the United Farm Workers about a major victory in the struggle to protect farm workers from dying in the fields from heat. Also, we’ll feature an encore presentation of our mini dock on the Farm worker struggle for worker rights in Baja, California. And, TPP stalled in congress? What kind of trickery will the president and congress cook up to shove the anti-worker pro GMO policy through congress?

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Flashpoints 06-16-15

Today on Flashpoints: Another Bush heading for the oval office? Jeb makes it official. Also, we’ll have an update on the huge oil spill, still haunting the coastal residents of Santa Barbara California. We have a report on the brutal police killing of Petie Perez and what the family is doing about it to get so action. And we’ll hear about the highly provocative Outside The Frame Film Festival taking place in San Francisco this weekend

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Flashpoints 06-15-15

Today on Flashpoints:  Obama is cheerleading for fast track free trade. We’ll take a look at how free trade impacts workers in America. Also, a special report back from Miguel Gavilan Molina, on the battle to restrain police violence in fark worker country. And our regular weekly broadcast of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows-Friedman.

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Flashpoints 06-11-15

Flashpoints examines the past, present & future of public education through a social justice lens.  Broadcasts every Wednesday for 15 weeks, which began March 18, 2015.

This series is produced and hosted by Ken Yale

Episode 13 (Aired June 10th 2015)

The Power of Our History

This program highlights the importance of providing young people with authentic and empowering history curriculum.  The struggle for Mexican-American studies in Tucson is profiled, along with the Tierra Amarilla Youth Brigades in New Mexico, where urban Chicano youth from around the country come for intensive study of their history and culture.

Guests:

Norma Gonzalez: 3rd Grade teacher at Manzo Elementary school in Tucson Unified School District.  Leader in struggle to maintain the Mexican-American Studies Department in Tucson public schools.

Donte Clark, co-founder of RAW Talent, a spoken word and performing arts group from the RYSE Center in Richmond, California

Ricardo Romero, Co-founder and teacher of the Tierra Amarilla Youth Brigades in New Mexico, Project Coordinator for Al Frente de Lucha in Greeley Colorado, and a community organizer for over 50 years.

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Education Series – Episode 13

Today on Flashpoints: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules to uphold Texas law HB2, the draconian anti-abortion law, that has lead to the largest wave of clinic closures since Roe v. Wade. We”ll feature an in-depth interview with a brave young woman who was arrested last year resisting the anti-abortion terrorists deep in the heart of Texas. Also, we’ll speak to radical feminist, celebrated author, and transgender activist, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, about the recent sexual revelations regarding Catlin Jenner, formerly Olympic multi-gold medalist, Bruce Jenner. And And our education series, The Battle for Public Education In the 21st Century continues with Part 13

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Flashpoints 06-10-15

Today on Flashpoints: An in-depth look at the Second cold war emerging between the US and Russia with Robert Parry. And poet and KPFA host Nina Serrano joins us live.

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Flashpoints 06-09-15

Today on Flashpoints: An in depth report on why the impending US/Iraqi offensive to retake Ramadi is a doomed operation. Also, a report on the desperate and extremely violent situation in Honduras largely a result of US policy there. And an update on the troubling case of the police killing of Amilcar Perez-Lopez in San Francisco’s Mission District

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Flashpoints 06-08-15

Today on Flashpoints: Farmworker activists from Baja California protest in front of San Francisco’s City Hall, and call for a boycott of strawberries distributed by the Driscoll Corporation. Also, we’ll have a report back on the recent meeting on the spraying of dangerous pesticides near elementary schools in Salinas. And our regular weekly broadcast of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman

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Flashpoints examines the past, present & future of public education through a social justice lens.  Broadcasts every Wednesday for 15 weeks, which began March 18, 2015.

This series is produced and hosted by Ken Yale

Episode 12 (Aired June 3rd 2015)

Another Education Is Possible

We continue to explore alternative educational approaches, focusing on models outside the U.S. public education system.  Featured are the public education system in Finland, internationally recognized as one of the highest achieving and most equitable in the world, and contemporary indigenous learning lodges, which are being developed across North America by the Native American Academy.

Guests:

Pasi Sahlberg: Visiting professor at Harvard ‘s Graduate School of Education and former Director General in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture

Rose Von Thater-Braan: Co-founder & Director, Native American Academy.  Former Director of Education at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Particle Astrophysics

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Education Series Part 12

Today on Flashpoints: Hunger, food and politics in America. We’ll feature an extended conversation with Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, which just celebrated its 35th Anniversary. Also we feature the next installment of our in-depth multi-part series, “The Battle for Public Education In the 21st Century”

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Flashpoints 06-03-15