FLASHPOINTS

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, We hear from four days of drumbeat coverage from the Honduran capital as President Manuel Zelaya returns to the country; Our special correspondents Tim Russo and Andres Conteris report from inside the Brazilian embassy and out in the streets as Zelaya and his supporters take refuge while Honduran military and police surround and attack the building; We’ll also get an exclusive from President Zelaya himself; and a new documentary film spotlights the Chevron-Texaco destruction of the Ecuadorian rainforest and how indigenous communities are fighting back.

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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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Guests:

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

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

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

This week on the Best of Flashpoints, Jordan Flaherty and Malik Rahim, activists and journalists in New Orleans, reflect on the 4^th year since hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the continued inaction and injustice perpetrated by the Federal Government; also, Native American leaders prepare to reclaim Mt. Rushmore and other sacred sites across the country; Ali Abunimah talks about the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza and Obama’s policies in Palestine; plus, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talks about the potential to jail Bush administration officials for torture and kidnapping; and the Knight Report returns from exile.

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Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of AIM (via CSULB)

In the wake of the denial of parole to Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier, and an ongoing action to retake Mt. Rushmore, we celebrate the life and remember the history of genocide against Native Americans; a special look at the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Young Lords in East Harlem in New York City; and headlines from the students at Project Censored.

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Jaisal Noor, reporter with Indypendent NYC Newspaper and Free Speech Radio News

Students at Project Censored

Clyde Bellecourt (introduced by Tony Gonzales), AIM co-founder

Recorded in July 2008 at the San Francisco SomArts Cultural Center, at AIM 40th Anniversary Exhibit

Israeli PM Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama

A special report from Honduras on the ongoing investigation of the coup leaders by the Spanish judge who indicted Pinochet; plus, Israel bombs southern Gaza, killing at least three, we’ll speak with Ali Abunimah about the attacks and Obama’s declaration in support of a “necessary war” in Afghanistan; also, we’ll have a special report from the United Native Americans on a pilgrimage to take back Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota; and the Knight Report.

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Guests:

Ali Abunimah, editor and co-founder of Electronic Intifada

Tim Russo, Free Speech Radio News

Quanah Parker Brightman, United Native Americans

Professor Lehman Brightman, President of UNA