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Friday, February 29, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Israel's deputy defense minister threatens a quote “holocaust” against the 1.5 million Palestinian people in Gaza; also, we'll have a report back on the Longest Walk from Jimbo Simmons; we'll talk about today's international actions calling for the return to democracy, 4 years after the US-sponsored coup in Haiti; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol with Evelina Molina and Miguel Perez. 5:01 Introduction Israeli missiles silence baby's laughter in Gaza

5:05 Haiti – 4 Years after US-Sponsored Coup
Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee

5:13 Longest Walk Jimbo Simmons,
American Indian Movement

5:23 Israeli Minister Threatens Holocaust Against Palestinians in Gaza
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada – www.electronicintifada.net

5:33 Falling Debris from Satellite Shootout Robert Knight

5:38 Headlines from the Region Miguel Perez

5:43 Flashpoints en Espanol . Evelina Molina with Mariano Alvarez
Thursday, February 28, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Should Penny Pritzker, finance chair for Obama 2008, step down? We'll speak with independent financial whistleblower Tim Anderson; we'll also speak with former Assistant HUD secretary and financial wizard Catherine Austin Fitts about the larger challenges on the horizon of the sub-prime meltdown; also, US-made Israeli fighter jets, helicopter gunships, unmanned drones and tanks kill 26 Palestinians in 48 hours, including four children; plus, national protests are planned on the first leap year since the US-staged coup against Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report
The Turkish incursion into Iraq continues - Robert Knight
Solari Network       
Solari logo - www.solari.com06:00 Sub-Prime Meltdown and Barack Obama's Campaign
Tim Andersen, Chicago banking regulation specialist
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Network
Read Obama's Sub-Prime Conflict on ConsortiumNews.com

35:00 Israeli Attacks on Gaza kill 26 Palestinians, Including 4 Children in 48 Hours
Dr. Mona el-Farra, Union of Health Work Committees and Palestinian Red Crescent
Society, Director of Gaza Projects with Middle East Children's Alliance
To donate emergency aid: www.mecaforpeace.org, call 510-548-0542

48:00 Haiti Action Committee to Protest Against Marine Recruiters in Berkeley
Dave Welsh, Haiti Action Committee
3rd International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti

Coordinated International Protests – Feb. 29, 2008
4th anniversary of the US/French/Canadian Coup against Haiti
Visit Haiti Action Committee for more information

SF Bay Area Call to Action

Join Haiti Action Committee at the Marine Recruiting Station, 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley
(1/2 block south of University Avenue; 1/2 block north of Berkeley BART)

Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:30 AM

Download February_29th_flier.pdf at www.HaitiSolidarity.net

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess reports on the total breakdown of infrastructure within the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip; plus, author, historian and human rights activist Mary Elizabeth King talks about the collective history of Palestinian nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience strategies; and the tragic story of Iraq veteran Brian Jason Rand.

01:00 Israel's Control of Infrastructure inside Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief on the effects of Israel's collective punishment of Palestinians in occupied Gaza by withholding basic services.

Read the Human Rights Watch article Gaza: Israel’s Energy Cuts Violate Laws of War

A Quiet Revolution by Mary Elizabeth King is a profound and perceptive account of the intellectual roots of the real revolution in Palestinian political thinking in response to the first intifada, written by a leading expert on non-violent resistance. Nation Books (2007) www.maryking.info10:00 Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance During the 1st Intifada and Beyond
Mary Elizabeth King, author, A Quiet Revolution

Mary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace, and distinguished scholar with the American University’s Center for Global Peace, in Washington, DC. She is senior associate fellow at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute, in Britain.

51:00 The War Comes Home
Aaron Glantz introduces the tragic story of Iraq war veteran Brian Jason Rand, who returned from his second tour of duty on January 2, 2007, as recounted by his sister April.

Visit www.WarComesHome.org, a project of KPFA Radio, which was launched in an effort to put a human face on the conflict. Only by truly listening to the stories of soldiers who've come home, can we appreciate the realities of war and what we can do to help.

Break the Silence About the Consequences of the Iraq War On America
More than 1.6 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of August 1, 2007, 67,000 of them had been killed or wounded. In addition, more than 250,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans had been treated at treated at Veterans Administrations hospitals since their return home from combat.  www.WarComesHome.org
Monday, February 25, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  In still one more act of peaceful disobedience to the violent Israeli military, thousands of Palestinians trapped in Gaza form a human chain at the northern border fence, Kristen Ess reports; also, we'll get full analysis from Ali Abunimah; and investigative reporter Allan Nairn on the possibility of another full-scale Israeli invasion into Lebanon.

01:00 Thousands of Palestinians at the Gaza Border Form Human Chain Against Israeli Siege
Kristen Ess

11:00 Palestine Analysis and Kosovo in Context    
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada                         Palestinians in Gaza form a human chain (TimesOnline.co.uk).Palestinians trapped in Gaza form a human

37:00 Promo: Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance
During 1st Intifada and Beyond (Tomorrow)
42:00 Music Break

44:00 Israel to Re-Invade Lebanon?
Allan Nairn, award-winning investigative journalist


Friday, February 22, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  The Fire and the Word: a History of the Zapatista Movement; and Michael Parenti on his stunning new book, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader.

01:00 Zapatista Report   The Fire and The Word: History of the Zapatista Movement
Alejandro Reyes, FP Special Correspondent
Gloria Ramirez, author of The Fire and the Word

14:00 Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, speaking at City Lights Books, San Francisco, January 2008 Thanks to John Parulis for this audio – www.brightpathvideo.com

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Thursday, February 21, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We'll talk about the case of the Freightliner Five, who say they were illegally fired and arrested by their own union; also, Israel continues its West Bank lockdown, we'll get a report from Kristen Ess in Palestine; and we'll play more of the groundbreaking BBC documentary film series The Power of Nightmares.

01:00 Union Activists Arrested
Allen Bradley, Fired UAW Vice Chair Bargaining Committee & Skilled Trades Chair Franklin Torrence, Fired UAW 3520 Civil Rights Chair and Executive Committee, President Of North Carolina Coalition Of Black Trade Unionists CBTU

Read Fired by Freightliner, Put on Trial by Their Own Union by Tiffany Ten Eyck on Counterpunch and The Freightliner Five need your support by Lee Sustar on SocialistWorker
Visit http://justice4five.com/ for more information
Allen Bradley - Member of the (VOC) UAW local 3520 Skilled Trades Chair/Skilled Trades District Rep, UAW Total Productive Maintenance Facilitator for Skilled Trades, Vice Chair Bargaining Committee, 10 year Employee of Freightliner http://justice4five.com
  Allen Bradley		 Franklin Torrence - Member of the (VOC), Civil Rights Chair, Bargaining Committee Member, 34th annual Constitutional Convention Delegate, V.P. Region 8 Civil and Human Rights Advisory Council, local 3520 CAP committee, District 102 Alternate Rep. Chair of Trustees, Executive Board member, 15 year Employee of freightliner. http://justice4five.com
Franklin Torrence

SF Bay Area meetings:

Saturday: February 23, 2008 @3:00 pm
ILWU Local 34 801 2nd Street San Francisco
At Embarcadero next to the Ballpark
For more info call (415) 282-1908 		Sunday: February 24, 2008 @10:00AM
Transport Workers Solidarity Committee Breakfast
with Franklin Torrence and Allen Bradley
International Maritime Center near Port View Park
4001 7th Street Oakland, next to Berth 40 in the Port of Oakland
For more info call (415) 867-0628

06:00 Report from Palestine: West Bank on Lockdown, Continuous Siege
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief interviews residents of the West Bank town of Tulkarem who describe the abusive and restrictive conditions under Israeli seige. Daily assaults, abductions, invasions, break-ins, explosions, shootings, and immobilization of people and goods destroy Palestinian lives and livelihoods.

Visit the Middle East Media Center and
Electronic Intifada for late-breaking news and commentary
Bush and Blair in front of an 
image of Osama bin Laden 
The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary film series examining how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organized terrorist network is an illusion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/14:00 The Power of Nightmares
Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart?

The Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organized terrorist network is no more than a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.

BBC Documentary Film Series

40:00 KPFA's 2008 Winter Fund Drive
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Today on Flashpoints, An investigative report into Penny Pritzker, the 2008 campaign finance chairman for Barack Obama, who was a key mover and shaker in creating the sub-prime meltdown; also, Oakland police gun down a grandmother in the back, we'll have an update; police attack DQ Indigenous University and arrest several students; and we hear excerpts from the hard-hitting BBC documentary series, the Power of Nightmares, about the perceived threat of global organized terrorism.Penny Pritzker

Pritzker is one of the most active of celebrated Chicago patriarch Abraham N. Pritzker's 12 living grandchildren. A Harvard-trained attorney, Pritzker, 46, was chosen by her late uncle Jay to help oversee the family's vast portfolio of investments, including the Hyatt hotel chain and the Marmon Group industrial conglomerate.  (Forbes Lists 2005)
Power of Nightmares - BBC
The Neo-Conservatives use the September 11th attacks,
with al-Fadl's description of al-Qaeda,
to launch the War on Terror.


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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Fidel Castro shakes the world again, this time with an announcement that he will no longer seek Cuba's presidency; also, tree-sitters under attack by homeland security forces in Berkeley; Kristen Ess reports on Israel's continued program to annihilate Hamas; and we hear excerpts from the hard-hitting film, Fidel: The Untold Story.

01:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank: Israel's Threat of Assassinating Ismayil Haniya
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

Also visit the Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for current news and commentary from Palestine and the Middle East






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11:00 Berkeley Tree-Sit and Homeland Security/Police State
Karen Pickett, EarthFirst!
Ayr, and tree-sitters on the phone

21:00 Fidel Castro Resigns
Gloria La Riva, International ANSWER Coalition
Andres Gomez, Director, Areito Digital; and founder, Antonio Maceo Brigade

Fidel: The Untold Story, a film by Estela Bravo, distributed by First Run Features - www.firstrunfeatures.com31:00 Fidel: The Untold Story
Excerpts from the Film by Estela Bravo

Fidel offers a unique opportunity to view the man through exclusive interviews with Castro himself, historians, public figures and close friends, with rare footage from the Cuban State archives.

Bravo’s camera captures Fidel Castro swimming with bodyguards, visiting his childhood home and school, joking with Nelson Mandela, Ted Turner and Muhammad Ali, meeting Elian Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with members of the Buena Vista Social Club. Juxtaposing the personal anecdotal with history of the Cuban revolution and the fight to survive the post-Soviet period, Fidel tells a previously untold story and presents a new view of this compelling figure.  (First Run Features, www.firstrunfeatures.com)

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Monday, February 18, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: 
US-made Israeli warplanes kill 14 people in two days, including eight members of a family in Gaza, we'll get an eyewitness report from the ground; and an encore presentation of our interview with David Ray Griffin on his soon-to-be-released book, 9-11 Contradictions.9-11 Contradictions, David Ray Griffin

01:00 Israeli Attacks in Gaza Kill 14 in Two Days
Mohammed Omer, Flashpoints Correspondent,
reporter with Inter Press Service and
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 
www.rafahtoday.org

15:00 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press
David Ray Griffin, author

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Friday, February 15, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: While the Mexican President Calderon is in Sacramento, he leaves the real issues behind him regarding free trade and the future of Mexican culture; also, we'll have a report on the Longest Walk for indigenous rights and to save the environment; we'll get an update on the volatile situation in Lebanon after the assassination of a major Hezbollah leader; we'll also have a report on today's actions at the Berkeley marine recruiters office, where resisters took to the streets; a salute to Utah Phillips, who faces serious life and death health challenges; and sounds from John Pilger's documentary The War on Democracy.
The War on Democracy, John Pilger Film
01:00 Intro and Longest Walk Update
Dennis, Francisco, Miguel

05:00 Report from Mexico
Francisco Herrera with Victor Quintana

13:00 Report from Lebanon: Assassination of
Hezbollah Leader in Damascus, Syria
Bilal el-Amine, Flashpoints special correspondent,
editor, Left Turn Magazine

26:00 Protests Against the War
World Can't Wait

31:00 Utah Phillips Update
Dennis, Robbie Osman, with music by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco

37:00 The War on Democracy
Sounds from the film by John Pilger, documentary filmmaker

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: JR and the Block Report feature an exclusive interview with Death Row journalist Mumia Abu Jamal; also, amongst continuing sieges, Israel's occupation forces make it impossible for Palestinian farmers to export millions of flowers on Valentine's day; human rights activist and author Anna Baltzer talks about being a witness in the West Bank.

01:00 POCC/Block Report Interviews Mumia Abu-Jamal
JR, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., and Franco of the POCC and Block Report
BlockReportRadio.com

09:00 Israel Demolishes Gazan Economy as Palestinians Remain in the Dark
Mohammed Omer, freelance journalist, FP Special Correspondent
www.rafahtoday.org

Witness in the Middle East by Anna Baltzer presents photographs and writings of the author's eight months working with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank, documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance against the Occupation. www.annainthemiddleeast.com




Life in Occupied Palestine, Eyewitness Stories and Photographs on DVD contains Anna Baltzer's full presentation including photos, facts, commentary, music, and action. www.annainthemiddleeast.com
20:00 Witness in Palestine
Anna Baltzer, Human rights activist, author, Witness in Palestine
www.annainthemiddleeast.com

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Berkeley City Council caves under pressure and withdraws strong language refering to US Marine Recruiters in Berkeley as “unwelcome intruders,” we'll continue our discussion with members of a growing resistance movement against the intruders; also, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter with a new speech on the mainstream corporate media's pro-war spin on Iran and Iraq.
Target Iran - Scott Ritter
01:00 Berkeley Protests Against Military Recruiters:
City Council Upholds Anti-Marine Stance
Sound from the City Council Meeting.
Young people live in the studio

21:00 Scott Ritter on What Mainstream Media
Don't Tell You About Iraq/Iran
Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, author.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Hundreds of students from Berkeley High School join a growing movement of activists trying to run the Marine recruiters out of the city; also, National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn speaks out against Bush's Guantanamo terrorist indictments; Maya Orozco with the Longest Walk as it arrives in Sacramento; Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on a thousand more illegal Jewish-only settlement colony units in the Bethlehem area.

01:00 Guantanamo and Torture Update
Marjorie Cohn, President, National Lawyers Guild

08:00 Berkeley Protests Against Military Recruiters
Sound from the protest
Students from Berkeley High live in studio discuss the violence and intimidation
Read more on IndyBay.org - 1, 2, 3
Students protest Marine recruiters and the Iraq war in Berkeley Feb 12, 2008 - source www.indybay.org
Students protest Marine recruiters and the Iraq war in Berkeley Feb 12, 2008 - source www.indybay.org

The Longest Walk, Alcatraz to Washington DC - www.longestwalk.org26:00 Report from the Longest Walk
Maya Orozco, Flashpoints contributor
Visit www.longestwalk.org for more details

35:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Visit the Middle East Media Center for the latest news and information
Visit ElectrinicIntifada.org for middle east news, commentary and analysis

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Monday, February 11, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A violent early morning attack in East Timor critically wounds President Ramos-Horta, while the Prime Minister escapes serious injury; also, Israeli leaders debate the assassination of  Hamas leaders and a major offensive in Gaza; we'll have a report from Alcatraz on the kick-off of the Longest Walk; and Laura Flanders talks about grassroots action in the Democratic party.
Laura Flanders: Blue Grit
01:00 Assassination Attempts in East Timor
John Miller, East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

09:00 The Longest Walk
Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement

13:00 Israel To Continue Extra-
Judicial Assassinations in Gaza
Ali Abunimah, ElectronicIntifada.net

23:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

31:00 Laura Flanders: Blue Grit
Laura Flanders, author, radio host

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Friday, February 8, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Revenge of the Illegal Alien: A new book of poems and political bullets from Cesar Cruz; also, a brand new documentary by John Pilger about the attempts by the US to subvert democracy in Latin America.


01:00 Introduction
Dennis, Miguel, Francisco

05:00 Revenge of the Illegal Alien: A Mexican Takes on the Empire
Cesar Cruz, author, teacher, education rights activist
John Pilger Cartoon - Nicholson Cartoons
13:00 The War on Democracy
John Pilger



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Thursday, February 7, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
9/11 Contradictions, An Open Letter to Congress and the Press by David Ray Griffin - www.interlinkbooks.comToday on Flashpoints: One of the leading investigators of the 9-11 coverup, David Ray Griffin, talks about his brand new book, 9-11 Contradiction: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press

01:00 On 9-11 Truths and Misconceptions
David Ray Griffin, author, 9-11 Contradiction: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press

Two contradictory statements cannot both be true. These contradictions show, therefore, that individuals and agencies articulating the official story of 9/11 have made many false statements. Congress and the press clearly should ask which of the contradictory statements are false and why they were made.  Interlink Publishing

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Former Alaska Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel ignores Super Tuesday and addresses himself to the real issues of our time; and Michael Parenti in a recent speech at City Lights Books, in conjunction with the release of his new book, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader.

Presidential Candidate and Former Senator Mike Gravel - www.gravel2008.us01:00 Sen. Mike Gravel on the Elections and “Super Tuesday”
Senator Mike Gravel, most prominently known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War. (bio)

13:00 Michael Parenti on Iraq, Iran, and US Policy
Michael Parenti, author Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
Contrary Notions: The Parenti Reader by Michael Parenti - www.michaelparenti.org
A rich selection of Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. Also included are a few choice selections drawn from his own life experiences and political awakening. Parenti goes where few political observers dare to tread. City Lights Booksellers and Publishers

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Super Tuesday Presidential Primary Election Coverage
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Monday, February 4, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:   Kristen Ess reports on the Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Gaza and a suicide operation in Israel.A radical leader in the immigrants rights movement throws his support to Obama. Former UN special envoy to Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdez, referred to by Haitians as the Butcher of Cite Soleil, visits UC Berkeley tomorrow; and thirty years of contamination by Chevron in the Amazon.

01:00 Report from Occupied Palestine: Israeli Forces Kill 3 in Gaza; Suicide Operation in Dimona
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Bureau Chief in Occupied Palestine

17:00 Meeting with Barack Obama: Immigration Policies
Juan Jose Gutierriez, Founder, Latino Movement USA

29:00 UN Envoy to Haiti in SF Bay Area
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent
Brian Concannon, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

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46:00 Taking on Chevron
Mitch Anderson, AmazonWatch
Flashpoints, Your Investigative News Magazine
Friday, February 1, 2008 for audio FAQ, click here Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: 
Rene Saucedo, Day Laborer Center
Lynne Stewart, civil rights attorney
Nativo Lopez
Headlines with Miguel Perez
Flashpoints en Espanol

Broadcasting LIVE from the SF Day Laborer Center in the Mission District!!