FLASHPOINTS

Lynne Stewart

We’ll feature an update on the ongoing battle by UC Berkeley students fighting massive tuition increases and cutbacks at the University of California and other state-run campuses; also, we’ll take a look at the case of people’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, who was jailed unexpectedly by the state; and we’ll hear about a new film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Lynne Stewart with Ralph Pointer

Emily Kunstler and Joey Johnson

Reuben Caneda and student activists

Afghan politician and outspoken critic of the expanding warlord corruption and US occupation of her country, Malalai Joya, talks about the war being waged against women and democracy in Afghanistan; also, former political prisoner Alaa’ Jaradat from the occupied West Bank tells us about the ongoing suffering, including widespread torture, of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons and detention camps; plus, remembering one of this country’s greatest storytellers, Brother Blue; and Military Families Speak Out on Veterans’ Day.

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Pvt. Michael Kern

A Private at Fort Hood attempts to hand-deliver a letter against the expanding war to President Obama during today’s memorial service, we’ll speak to the active-duty veteran soldier who says that while Secret Service destroyed his letter, he’s determined to get it to the President; we’ll also be joined by Dahr Jamail, who has written extensively about the growing GI resistance movement; plus, Andy Worthington, the director of a troubling new film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo, live in the studio; on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, she’ll talk about the permanent war budget and its implications for the ongoing theft of people’s money; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Private Michael Kern, Iraq Vets Against the War, active-duty Iraq veteran at Fort Hood

Dahr Jamail, journalist and Flashpoints special correspondent, author, The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Andy Worthington, co-director, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

Gloria and Jacobo Arenas

An in-depth look at yesterday’s Fort Hood shooting, with Dahr Jamail; also, American Indian Movement founder Bill Means joins us to talk about a major visit by the United Nations to the Pine Ridge Reservation yesterday; We’ll also get a report from the Brazilian embassy in Honduras where the talks between President Zelaya and the coup government have broken down, and the deal has unraveled; we’ll hear about the harrowing story of two Mexican revolutionaries who were just released from prison after spending a good chunk of their lives locked down for advocating the overthrow of the Mexican government; and news headlines from Project Censored.

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Guests:

Project Censored

Dahr Jamail, author and journalist

Andres Thomas Conteris, Democracy Now and Nonviolence International

John Gibler, reporter

Jimbo Simmons and Bill Means, American Indian Movement

Arundhati Roy

An in-depth interview with internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy, Roy is the author of a brand-new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. She speaks about the new book and the deterioration of real democracy around the world; also, we get an update on the case of Mumia Abu Jamal; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Arundhati Roy, Award-winning novelist and essayist

Jeff Mackler, Director, National Campaign to Free Mumia Abu Jamal

Anna Terrell Blanton, Reginald Blanton's mother, at the state-sponsored execution

As we go to air, the state of Texas may have just murdered Reginald Blanton, another innocent man, we’ll feature a series of interviews from the death house in Huntsville, Texas, including an interview with Blanton’s uncle and a last-minute plea from his mother, Ana Blanton, for the state to spare her son’s life; also, we’ll look at a project to restore a key activist church in New Orleans that was destroyed by Katrina; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Gloria Rubeck, anti death penalty activist

Reginald Blanton’s uncle and mother (thanks to Davey D for pre-recorded interviews and sounds from the protest in Austin)

Sakura Kone, National Campaign Coordinator to Restore Wesley United

We launch our multi-part series, Anatomy of a Financial Coup D’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; Obama’s war in Afghanstan continues to unravel, we’ll speak with investigative journalist Gareth Porter; also, protesters in San Francisco disrupt a speech given by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, attempting citizen’s arrest for the massacres in occupied Palestine; and an attorney representing members of the Uighur community, detained inside the US torture prison camp at Guantanamo, talks about the Supreme Court finally agreeing to hear their case.

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Guantanamo Bay Prison

We’ll feature part two of our multi-part series, the Anatomy of a Financial Coup d’Etat with Catherine Austin Fitts; also, the US Supreme Court agrees to hear the case of 13 Uighurs who are still being held at Guantanamo, five years after they were to be released; plus, we’ll speak to the filmmaker of The Road to Fallujah, who is kicking off a national tour of US universities, attempting to build bridges of communication between American and Iraqi college students; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network

Mark Manning, filmmaker, The Road to Fallujah, and Global Access Media

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:

The Block Report

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 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