FLASHPOINTS

Minnesota Activists Against SB1070

An in-depth look at the struggle for immigrant worker rights; we’ll speak with Rene Salcedo about the struggle in California against the reactionary policies of gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and many others; we’ll be joined by national board member of NDLON, the leading national organization for day laborer rights and immigration reform; and we’ll take a look at youth organizing on the ground in Arizona with an activist who spent the last three months on the ground; and Flashpoints en Espanol.
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Guests:

Francisco Herrera

Rene Salcedo

Rafael Landon, Contributor to Flash/Onda and Community Activist

Davin Cardenas, National Board member of NDLON and organizer in California

The US Social Forum in Detroit was last week, from Jun 22nd-June 26th

We have part one of a special report on last week’s US Social Forum in Detroit, where tens of thousands of beautiful activists, organizers and people who are simply sick and tired of being sick and tired, came together to network, strategize and create local, regional and national goals. On today’s special, we’ll hear testimonials about the devastation occurring in people’s communities around the country; also, we’ll hear about a new exciting domestic workers’ alliance that’s been built at the US Social Forum; finally, we’ll end the show with Radio Flash, that is, Flashpoints en Espanol, also featuring sounds from the US Social Forum in Detroit.

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Jesus Hernandez, Father of the Slain 14 Year Old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka

We continue our reporting on Monday night’s border patrol execution of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka; we’ll speak with Benino Pena a long time civil rights and human rights activist on the border; we’ll also talk to Mikey Velarde, the founder of a new grassroots organization working with the people from the ground up, fighting against border occupation; we’ll have a front line update from our special correspondent, dealing with the oil spill from New Orleans; also on Flashpoints en Espanol, we’ll focus on the border shooting and the FBI’s decision to investigate it as a possible civil rights violation.

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Guests:

Benino Pena

Mikey Velarde

Larry Everest

Cesar Chavez y Dolores Huerta

Today we broadcast live from the Center for Spirit, Art and Politics in the Heart of farm-worker country in Sonoma county. We’ll speak with Casimero Alavarez, United Farmworkers Coordinator for Northern California, about the multiple struggles ahead for the UFW, as they prepare to celebrate the birth of UFW founder, Cesar Chavez. We’ll also speak with Chicano Studies Professor Ron Lopez, of Sonoma State University, about the massive budget cuts to public education in California and its particular impacts on brown students in the state. We will also follow-up on a new federal crackdown by ICE on immigrant workers in Sonoma County and Fashpoints in Espanol.

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Co-hosts:
Molly Goss, Miguel Gavilan Molina, and Miguel Perez

Guests:
Casimero Alvarez, UFW/North Bay Coordinator
Ron Lopez, Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University
Evalina Molina