FLASHPOINTS

Susan Abulhawa

Palestinian-American novelist Susan Abulhawa focuses on the ongoing refugee struggle in her new novel, Mornings in Jenin; also, Evelina Molina speaks with Arnoldo Garcia of the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights about new, racist crackdowns on migrant workers in Arizona; and JR and the Block Report talk about how the state and local governments avoid the root causes of violence through the implementation of racial profiling and gang injunctions.

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Guests:

Susan Abulhawa, author, Mornings in Jenin

Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

JR and the Block Report

US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israeli

Support continues to build for a global movement against Israeli apartheid in Palestine, today we feature anti-apartheid activist and Nazi holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein talking about why she supports the campus divestment movement; also, an in-depth analysis of the extent and the dangers of the unmeasured Israeli nuclear arsenal; and a GI resister who was a member of the same company shown in the recently-released Wikileaks video talks about how this action is commonplace throughout the military’s occupation of Iraq.

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Guests:

Hedy Epstein, activist

John Steinbach, journalist

Spc. Josh Steiber, Iraq vet and peace activist

Dr. Francis Boyle

Dr. Michio Kaku talks about the global nuclear state of affairs as world leaders gather at a Presidential summit in Washington; also, Francis Boyle analyzes the front-runners for possible appointment to the Supreme Court; and UC Berkeley students talk about the university’s bill to divest from companies that profit from the injustices of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

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Guests:

Dr. Francis Boyle, International law professor

Michio Kaku, legendary physicist, author, radio and tv personality

Nairi Shrinian and Majdi Abuhamdieh, UC Berkeley undergraduates and members of Students for Justice in Palestine

Palestinian children, Israeli detention policies

Maoist rebels attack and kill more than 70 policemen in central India after the government unleashes a campaign to seize land and hunt down the group’s leaders, we’ll re-broadcast excerpts of an interview with legendary Indian essayist and novelist Arundhati Roy, who talks about the struggle in context; and we’ll re-play a Flashpoints investigation into expanding lethal Israeli attacks against Palestinian children.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, essayist, novelist

Nora Barrows-Friedman on assignment in the West Bank

Separation wall in the Israeli-occupied West-Bank

A special report from Senior Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman, just back from occupied Palestine; we’ll also have a report on the media’s pro-Israel slant on Jerusalem; plus, this week on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we’ll take a look at prisons for profit and who’s getting rich off of them; and JR and the Block Report interview KPFA producer Nadra Foster who speaks out publicly for the first time about her police beating in the basement of KPFA a year and a half ago.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Henry Norr, Bay Area activist
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network
Nadra Foster, former KPFA producer

Pfizer (photo: Getty Images)

We’ll have a report on a Federal lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer for contaminating their workers; also, a former Iranian torture victim and student revolutionary speaks out about the current executions in Iran; and a brand-new film series in Berkeley highlights the ongoing struggle of Palestinans under occupation.

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Guests:

Anahita, student revolutionary from 1970s

Steve Zeltzer, Labor activist

Becky McLaine, former Pfizer scientist

Steve Shrag, Connecticut co-chair, Council on Occupational Safety and Health

Nabil Wahbeh and Annette Herskovits

Palestine Film Series at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

Obama signs the health care bill

Israelis have announced new settlement construction while Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netenayu. We’ll speak with Ali Abunimah and report on the powerful AIPAC meeting. Also, we’ll hear from doctors and nurses about the health care bill signed into law today. And we’ll speak to a former death row prisoner about his work against the death penalty.

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Guests:
Dr. Steffie Wolhandler, Co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program
Chuck Idelson, California Nurses Association
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
Lawrence Hayes, Death row activist
Jack Bryson

Author Michael Parenti

Today on Flashpoints we continue our ongoing coverage of the wrongful death lawsuit against the state of Israel being brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie. We’ll speak to Rachel’s mom about the trial and new evidence that there was no in-depth investigation of her daughter’s murder. Also, we’ll speak to well-known author and radical political analyst Michael Parenti and we’ll speak with Randy Credico, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York.

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Guests:
Cindy Corrie, mother of Rachel Corrie
Michael Parenti, author, God and His Demons
Randy Credico, Democratic candidate for US Senate

Rachel Corrie

Today on Flashpoints, on the 7th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, we continue our reporting on the expanding Israeli crackdown in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank. We’ll talk to Nora Barrows-Friedman about continuing clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians and we’ll also hear about a street in Palestine that was named after Rachel Corrie. Then J.R. And the Block Report are back with an update on the tragic criminal injustice of the Scott Sisters in Mississippi.

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Guests:
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Maha Shehadi
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada
J.R., Block Report Minister of Information

© Billionaires for Bush

Today on Flashpoints, the first corporate campaign for congress, also Flashpoints Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on a massive Israeli crackdown in Arab East Jerusalem and the locking down of the entire West Bank. We’ll also begin our daily coverage of the lawsuit being brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie against the state of Israel for wrongful death and we’ll feature an update on the elections in Iraq with well known dissident-analyst Raed Jarrar – senior fellow with Peace Action – just back from that country.

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Guests:
William Klein, Campaign Manager, Murray Hill for Congress
Craig Corrie, father of Rachel Corrie
Nora Barrows-Friedman, Flashpoints Senior Producer
Raed Jarrar, Analyst, Peace Action