FLASHPOINTS

Dag Hammarksjold Plaza, U.N. Manhattan NYC - 02/25/11

Today on Flashpoints we’ll hear about the continuing crack down on Bahraini pro-democracy activists including the jailing of a young poet for reading a poem in public.  Also we’ll have an in-depth repot on the illegal US/NATO war against Libya.  And we’ll speak to Ziad Abbas about a new dance production he is co-directing with Nina Haft on life under occupation in Palestine.
LISTEN ONLINE:
[podcast]http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20110602-Thu1700.mp3[/podcast]
Download this clip
Play this clip in your Computer’s media player

Guests: David Swanson, author of War is a Lie and works with the new group rootsaction.org, Maryam Al-Khawaja, Head of Foreign Relations for the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and Ziad Abbas of the Middle East Children’s Alliance with Nina Haft.