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Monday, March 31,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Voices
from War: a conscientious veteran who refused to load his gun in Iraq
speaks out; also, Flashpoints special correspondent John Gibler
reports on Mexico and free trade; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report and War Summary
- A tactical cease fire reveals strategic weaknesses in the US
Occupation of Iraq
- Scattered squirmishes continue across Iraq following Sunday's
announcement of a cease fire by Muqtada al-Sadr who decried that
militias should stand down.
Robert
Knight
04:00 Report
back from Mexico
John
Gibler, Flashpoints Special Correspondent
24:00 A
Man of Conscience – Film and Discussion
Augustin
Aguayo, Conscientious Objector, and wife Helga
Peter
Dudar and Sally Marr, filmmakers of Voices from War
53:00 Protest
at DQ University
Friday, March 28,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Today
on a special Friday edition of Flashpoints, Juan Jose Gutierriez
talks about a national day of action in Washington DC to call for the
rights of immigrants and their families; also, we'll hear about
planned celebrations for Cesar Chavez weekend; headlines from the
region and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro
Remembering Cezar
Chavez
Dennis,
Francisco, Miguel
06:00 National
Organization on Immigrant Rights and May Day in Washington DC
Juan
Jose Gutierriez, Latino Movement USA and East LA Legal Law Center
21:00 Cesar
Chavez Remembered In Immigrant Communities
Roberto
Garcia, North Bay United
Farmworkers and Evelina
Molina
38:00 Headlines
from the Region
Miguel
Perez
43:00 Flashpoints
En Espanol
Juan
Jose Gutierriez, Roberto
Garcia and Miguel
Perez and Evelina Molina
Thursday, March 27,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about the phenomenal upsurge in
violence in US-occupied Iraq; also, Mumia abu-Jamal loses a major
appeal in the courts, JR and the Block Report speaks with Pam Africa
about what that means for his freedom; Greg Palast wonders what
happened to Eliot Spitzer after he wrote his op-ed on the subprime
predators; plus, Robert Parry talks about Hillary Clinton going
negative and lying; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
- Both blood and oil are spilled today in Iraq
Robert
Knight
04:00 Sadr Forces Battle
US-Allied and Imposed Iraqi Puppet Regime
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, author, Beyond the Green Zone
www.dahr.org
Bernanke
explains why the $200 billion
is good for you
22:00 Bear
Stearns and Eliot
Spitzer
Greg Palast, author, Armed Madhouse
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are
intimately linked...
www.GregPalast.com
34:00 Hillary Clinton on the
Campaign Trail: Negative Campaigning and Big Lies
Bob Parry, investigative journalist, ConsortiumNews.com
Read Hillary
Sinks with the 'Kitchen Sink'
45:00 Mumia Abu-Jamal Loses
Appeals, The Fight for Justice and Freedom Continues
Pam Africa, MOVE and International
Concerned Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Visit www.mumia.org
and
the Mobilization to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal
Wednesday, March 26,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Former
CIA official and antiwar resister Ray McGovern talks about the media
as cheerleaders for the war; also, we speak with Palestine Bureau
Chief Kristen Ess about the US-Israeli decision to send 700
Palestinian security servicemen to Jenin essentially as
subcontractors of the Israeli occupation; plus, with a huge bailout
of the Wall Street elite in progress, we start a new weekly segment:
Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts; and the Knight
Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
- Security Throughout Iraq is Surging - Down The Drain.
Robert
Knight
04:00 Deconstructing
the Recent Frontline Special on the Iraq
War
Ray
McGovern, former CIA analyst
23:00 Israel
Sends 700 Palestinian Security Servicemen to Jenin to Subcontract
Their Occupation
Kristen
Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief
41:00 Community
Business Catherine
Austin Fitts, Solari.com
Tuesday, March 25,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Independent
of London correspondent Patrick Cockburn
reports on the Cheney visit to Baghdad and the 5 year old occupation;
former Marine Corps Sergeant Adam Kokesh and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater:
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army testifiy
during the recent Winter Soldier 2008 Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness
Accounts to the Occupation; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
- All h*ll breaks loose in southern Iraq
Robert
Knight
04:00 Cheney
and McCain in Baghdad; Mahdi Army Battles Security Forces
Patrick Cockburn,
journalist, Iraq correspondent for the Independent
of London, author of The Occupation: War and Resistance in
Iraq and most recently Muqtada; Muqtada al-Sadr, the
Shia Revival and the Struggle for Iraq.
Read Patrick Cockburn's article in the Independent of London Violence
erupts in Basra as Iraqi forces battle Mehdi Army
"The Iraqi
army is fighting the Mehdi Army Shia militia in the streets of Basra
after the government launched its most serious offensive to gain
control of the southern oil city."
more...
27:00 More Testimonies from
Winter Soldier 2008: Iraq and Afghanistan
Adam
Kokesh, former Marine Corps Sergeant, member IVAW. kokesh.blogspot.com
Jeremy
Scahill,
author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most
Powerful Mercenary Army
www.blackwaterbook.com
Visit ivaw.org, warcomeshome.org
and kpfa.org for video
and audio
archives
Monday, March 24,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
We'll
talk to the father of an Iraq war vet who took his own life after
severe PTSD, amongst reports that 120 vets are committing suicide a
week; a victim of Penny Pritzker's Superior Bank speaks out; also,
Kristen Ess reports on the Hamas-Fatah talks held in Yemen; an update
on the case of Dr. Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian-American professor
targeted for his political activism by the US government, as his
health deteriorates during another longterm hunger strike; and the
Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
Parents
of Tim Bowman testify on Vet Suicides to Hill.
06:00 Economic
Meltdown Impacts
Families
Fran
Sweet, Superior Bank victim
19:00 Estimated
120 Vets Suicides a Week
Mike
Bowman, father
34:00 Report
from Occupied Palestine: Fatah-Hamas “Yemen Agreement”
Investigated
Kristen
Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief
46:00 Update
on Dr. Sami al-Arian, Political Activist and Professor Targeted by
Feds
Laila
al-Arian, freelance journalist, daughter of Dr. Al-Arian
www.freesamialarian.com
Friday, March 21,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: Father
Louis Vitale reflects with us on his decision to get arrested at Fort
Huachuca, out of a five-month jail term and re-arrested at
Livermore
Laboratories; Rene Saucedo returns from a delegation to Juarez, where
people are resisting the corporate takeover by big business box
stores; we hear Bay Area voices of revolution and protest against the
ongoing occupations in Iraq and Palestine on
Activist Nation;
headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.
Holy
Friday 2007 at Livermore Labs
01:00
Introduction.
Dennis,
Francisco, Rene Saucedo
06:00 Activism
Against Torture
Father
Louis Vitale
17:00 Resisting
Militarism at US-Mexico Border
Rene
Saucedo
29:00 Activist
Nation: Resisting War 5 Years Into Iraq Occupation
Joe
Tougas, contributing producer
38:00 Headlines
from the Region
Miguel
Perez
43:00 Flashpoints
en Espanol
Betita
Martinez, author and activist
Thursday, March 20,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Special correspondent Dahr Jamail takes a troubling look at the impact
depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other illegal weapons are having
on the people of Iraq; Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues her
investigation of the internal attacks against Palestinian journalists
in the West Bank and Gaza; also, we continue our dialogue with
Catherine Austin Fitts on the tanking of Wall Street and its expanding
impacts on Main Street; and JR and the Block Report discuss the FCC's
attempts to consolidate media and limit crucial community broadcasting.
01:00
Severe Health and
Humanitarian Disaster in US-Occupied Iraq
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, author, Beyond the Green Zone
www.dahr.org
Read the humanitarian report online: www.mhrinet.splinder.com
and www.ccerf.splinder.com
Direct
link to the report (PDF
format - WARNING - the report contains disturbing images)
15:00 Report from Occupied
Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Read about the case of Hasan
Abdel Jawad
29:00 Economy Collapse: A
Continued Discussion
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com
Discusses behind-the-scenes maneuvering to artificially prop up the US
dollar overseas.
Read the BBC article US admits economy in downturn
about the declining US economy.
47:00 Block Report: Davey D on
the FCC Hearings
JR and the Block Report
DaveyD.com
BlockReportRadio.com
Wednesday, March 19,
2008
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Live from the SF Civic
Center's March and Rally Against the 5 Years of Iraq Occupation
Tuesday, March 18,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints:
Activists mobilize from coast to coast on the fifth anniversary of the
illegal war and occupation in Iraq; also, former US Army Privates who
testified at the recent Winter Soldier investigation talk about the
free-fire zones against civilians; on the Block Report with JR, Ramona
Africa, one of the survivors of the aerial bombing of the MOVE house in
Philadelphia in 1985; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
- Cheney and McCainey view the increasing violence in Iraq
through rose-colored
glasses
Robert
Knight

(International
ANSWER actions)
05:00 Direct Actions Against
the War: 5th Anniversary of Occupation of Iraq
Rafael, World Can't Wait
Deborah Sweet, World Can't Wait
Dick Becker, ANSWER
Coalition, SF ANSWER
Scott Campbell, Direct
Action to Stop the War

(SF Bay Can't Wait)
28:00 More
Testimonies from
Winter Soldier
Clifton Hicks and Stephen Casey, former Army Privates, IVAW.org
for video archives: http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier/video
for audio archives: www.warcomeshome.org

Clifton Hicks
- IVAW
36:00 Block Report: Ramona
Africa And MOVE
JR and the Block Report
blockreportradio.com
Monday, March 17,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Former
Wall Street banker Catherine Austin Fitts talks about the tanking of
Bear Sterns and its multiple impacts on the US economy; also, we'll
feature an excerpt from the Winter Soldier 2008 investigations; an
update on the upcoming anti-war protests on the fifth anniversary of
the war and occupation of Iraq; plus, Kristen Ess
reports from on the
ground in occupied Palestine about the latest restrictions of
movement as the Israeli settlement colonies expand in the West Bank;
we remember Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in
2003; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
04:00 US
Economy in a Free-Fall
Catherine
Austin-Fitts, former high-level HUD official 
29:00
Major
Protests Across the Country this Wednesday
Bill
Hackwell, International ANSWER Coalition
34:00 Testimonies
of Winter Soldier
Testimonies
from Winter Soldier 2008
www.warcomeshome.org
for full archives
42:00 Report
from Occupied Palestine
Kristen
Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
52:00 Rachel
Corrie Remembered – April 10, 1979 - March 16, 2003
Molly
Cherington, singer/songwriter
Note: We deeply apologize for the erroneous Rachel Corrie
Link that was posted
yesterday, it was a regretable mistake.
Friday, March 14,
2008
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Special Broadcast on Fifth
Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq.
Issues and Trends on the Anti War Movement.
Anti War Movement Intersects with Climate Change and Labor Unions.
Interview with Madeline Gardner, Antiwar Activist.
Thursday, March 13,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli military death squads assassinate several Palestinians in
Bethlehem, Kristen Ess reports from the ground; also, local, national
and international activists take on Chevron for its environmental
destruction; Pierre Labossiere from the Haiti Action Committee calls
for the City of Berkeley to act on the continuing human rights
violations in Haiti; JR and the Block Report feature an interview on
the thought crime bill in Congress; and the Knight Report.
01:00
The Knight Report
- The Bush administration suppresses a report that puts the
lie to President Bush's pretext for invading Iraq, as the occupation
descends deeper into chaos
- New York's new Governor addresses the question of
prostitution in politics
Robert
Knight
06:00 Israeli
Death Squads Assassinate Palestinian Resistance Fighters in Bethlehem
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Palestine News Network
17:00 Pierre Labossiere Speaks
Out on UN Massacres in Haiti
Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action
Committee speaks at Berkeley City Council
21:00 Music Break
22:00 Chevron: Profits,
Politics and Environmental Destruction
Amazon Watch and
activists
45:00 Block Report: The Thought
Crimes Bill #HR1955
JR and the Block Report
blockreportradio.com
Wednesday, March 12,
2008
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Today
on Flashpoints: We'll look at displaced persons as a result of
the
Iraq War and the Failure of the US government to respond to Katrina.
We'll talk to the president of the hip hop caucus about Iraq five
years into the war and get an on the ground update from Malik Raheem
in New Orleans. Also we'll
go to Tuscon where a border agent dodges a
murder conviction. And Kristen Ess reports from the west bank on the
Palestinian authorities continuing crack down on Journalists. All
that straight ahead on Flashpoints. Stay tuned.
01:00
The Knight Report
Robert Knight is returning from
Albany New York where the Governor has announced his resignation.
Palestinian
authorities continuing crack down on Journalists.
Tuesday, March 11,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
Presidential hopeful Cynthia McKinney; also, a
look at Iraq 5 years after the Bush Administration lied the country
into a war there; the head of US forces in the Middle East resigns in
controversy; and The Block Report looks at gentrification of
black-owned property.
01:00 The Knight Report
A political suicide watch for
client #9, or the Governor once known as Eliot Spitzer
Robert
Knight
Cynthia
McKinney
06:00 Cynthia
McKinney
Former US Congresswoman and progressive Green Party candidate for US
President, Cynthia McKinney
Visit www.RunCynthiaRun.org
and www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com
Cynthia McKinney will be at Sonoma State University Thursday March 13,
2008. Check with Project
Censored for details - (707) 664-2500, censored@sonoma.edu
24:00 Music Break
Tribal Connection, Gogol Bordello
27:00 Five years into the Iraq
War
Author and activist Larry
Everest (in studio) discusses the resignation of the US Navy
commander in charge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Admiral
William Fallon, over press reports portraying him as opposed to Bush's
Iran policy.
www.larryeverest.com
Read The Man Between War
and Peace in Esquire magazine
Revolution
Books presents
Re-envisioning Revolution
and Communism
WHAT
IS
BOB AVAKIAN'S
NEW SYNTHESIS?
Saturday,
March 22 -- 2:00 pm
Black Repertory Theater
3201
Adeline Street, Berkeley
(1 block south of Ashby
BART)
$10 sliding scale
admission
for further information 510-848-1196
40:00
The Block Report
JR interviews SF
Bayview publisher Willie Ratcliff who discusses the Bayview Hunters
Point project and economic racism
blockreportradio.com
Viewing
of the documentary film Banished and panel
discussion at 4PM on Sunday March 16, 2008 fundraiser for the SF Bayview
Contact SF Bayview at
4917 Third St., San Francisco CA
94124
Phone: (415) 671-0789, Fax: (415) 671-0316,
Email: editor@sfbayview.com
Monday, March 10,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
The
feds expand their terrorist dragnet against radical environmental
justice activists, we'll talk about the case of Briana Waters; also,
Kristen Ess reports on the expanding war against Palestinians, using
the so-called peace process as a political front; Activist Nation
goes to the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, where
protesters
expressed their outrage against the Israeli military's killing of
over 140 Palestinians in ten days; and we'll have a report on the
upsurge of Bay Area police violence and hearings planned to try and
restrain it.
01:00 Activists
Speak Out Against Police Violence
Andrea
Pritchett, CopWatch
Stephanie
Tang, World Can't Wait
16:00 Briana
Waters and the Expanding “Green Scare”
Robert
Bloom, attorney
http://supportbriana.org
http://portland.indymedia.org
32:00 Music Break
33:00 Activist
Nation: Protest at the Israeli Consulate
Joe
Tougas
43:00 Report
from Occupied Palestine
Kristen
Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Friday, March 7,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Today
on a special International Women's Day
edition of Flashpoints, we
speak to Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Anglican Priest about the struggle
for self-determination inside Palestine; legendary political activist
and professor Angela Davis gives a riveting speech called From Jim
Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire; a discussion
with
the artist Robert Shetterly, author of Americans Who Tell The Truth;
and poetry by Suheir Hammad and the Brooklyn-based spoken word duo
Climbing Poetree. 
file:///C:/KPFA/index.html
01:00 Dr.
Naim Attek on the Israeli Occupation and Palestinian Resistance
Dr.
Naim Ateek, Anglican Priest in Jerusalem, director of
Sabeel
19:00 Poetry:
Suheir Hammad – Sister Star
Suheir
Hammad, award-winning poet, author of ZaatarDiva – www.suheirhammad.com
22:00 From Jim Crow to Guantanamo:
Angela Davis Speaks
Angela
Davis, author, professor, and political activist speaking at UC
Berkeley
38:00 Poetry:
Climbing PoeTree – Diamond
Climbing
PoeTree – www.climbingpoetree.com
42:00 Americans
Who Tell the Truth
Robert
Shetterly and Ruth Morgan
Thursday, March 6,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
We catch up with Jimbo Simmons on the Longest Walk; we'll be joined by
Native American leader Tony Gonzales to talk about the walk and the
battle to keep D-Q University, a radical indigenous college, alive;
we'll speak with Flashpoints co-host Rene Saucedo who is at the
US-Mexico border on a human rights mission; Kristen Ess reports from
the occupied West Bank, as Israeli attacks kill four more Palestinians
in Gaza and as two Palestinians attack a settler stronghold in
Jerusalem; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
Bombings and attacks around the
world; and the Bush administration tells Congress it don't need no
stinkin' badges to continue the war in Iraq
Robert
Knight
06:00 Report from Occupied
Palestine
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
Protest
Israel's Crimes in Gaza: 3/7 in SF
Emergency
Protest in Front of the Israeli Consulate
Friday,
March 7, 2008 4 PM
Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery Street, San Francisco

18:00 Music Break
19:00 The
Longest Walk. Human
Rights Border Actions, DQ University
Jimbo Simmons www.longestwalk.org
Tony Gonzales, American Indian
Movement
Rene Saucedo, SF Day Labor Center
On Feb. 11th, Longest Walk participants embarked on a 5 month journey
from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. arriving on July 11th. The
Longest Walk south route is being led by AIM co-founder Dennis J.
Banks. It is an extraordinary grassroots effort on a national level to
bring attention to the environmental disharmony of Mother Earth, sacred
site issues, and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original
longest walk. Click the image to expand
the map.
Wednesday, March 5,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Brattelboro, Vermont officials empower
local police to arrest Bush and Cheney on war crimes; Greg Palast
talks about his time with the new President of Ecuador and the current
hostilities happening in the region, we'll also talk about voter fraud
and the next election; Kristen Ess reports on the condition of
Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails; former high-level CIA
analyst Ray McGovern responds to the revelations of US involvement in
political destabilization in occupied Palestine; and the Knight
Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
US backed invasion,
assassinations and body snatching by Colombians in Amazon Basin of
Ecuador. FISA battles will keep US role murky.
US State Dept $5 million bounty
on FARC leader and spokesman Raul Reyes, led to the cross border raid
and his killing by Columbian troops.
Robert
Knight
06:00 Vermont Resolution of
Impeachment Against George W. Bush
Dan DeWalt, Select Board Member of Newfane, Vermont and organizer of
resolution
12:00 Elections, Oil, Venezuela
and Politics
Greg Palast, author, investigative journalist
26:00 Report from the Occupied
West Bank
International Middle East Media Center
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
40:00 Music Break
41:00 US Covert Actions to
Undermine Democracy in Palestine
Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst
Tuesday, March 4,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints:
We'll feature an in-depth report of Vanity Fair's expose that documents
the US-led contra operation to purge democracy from occupied Palestine;
plus, Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on Condoleezza Rice's
visit and her refusal to call off the Israeli attacks; Ziad Abbas talks
about the human rights nightmare and the aftermath of the attacks; JR
and the Block Report talk about a new film that documents the urban
ethnic cleansing of Black communities across this country; and the
Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report
Invasion of the Colombian body
snatchers
Robert
Knight
06:00 Condoleezza
Rice Returns to Palestine; Iran-Contra 2.0
News clip from Al-Jazeera – http://english.aljazeera.net
Read 'US Plot Against Hamas' Revealed
on alJazeera.net
Read The Gaza Bombshell: Politics & Power
in Vanity Fair
12:00 Report
from the Occupied West Bank: Israel Continues Sieges in Gaza
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
20:00 Response to Israeli
Attacks; Humanitarian Crisis
Ziad Abbas, Ibdaa Cultural Center
and Middle East Children's
Alliance discusses the tragic impact of the Israeli occupation on
Palestinians - from withholding water and food, checkpoints blocking
access to land, livelihood, medical services, and education, to attacks
killings and abductions by the IDF. And yet there is hope in the eyes
of the children, in spite of all the hardship and deprivation.
SF Bay Area listeners:
Join the demonstration of solidarity from 12:00
to 1:00PM at the Oakland Federal Building at 1301 Clay St.
Protest
Israel's Crimes in Gaza:
3/5 in Oakland and 3/7 in SF
Wednesday,
March 5, 2008
Noon-1pm
Oakland Federal Building
1301 Clay Street, Oakland
call (510) 548-0542 for info.
www.mecaforpeace.org
42:00 Block Report
JR and the Block Report
discuss the film Banished
with Marco Williams (Two Tone Productions and the Center for
Investigative Reporting)
www.banishedthefilm.com
Monday, March 3,
2008
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Today on Flashpoints: Israelis
kill or wound over 400 people in the last six days in Gaza, we'll
feature a series of special reports from Gaza and the West Bank,
including an update on an expanding medical emergency there; we'll
also speak with Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada for an
overview; and the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report

Updates from Robert
Knight
05:00 Israel's Gaza
Massacre: Over 120 Palestinians Killed
Dr.
Mona al-Farra, Palestinian Red Crescent Society,
Middle East
Children's Alliance -
www.mecaforpeace.org
and
http://fromgaza.blogspot.com
26:00 Report
from the Occupied West Bank
Kristen
Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief
49:00
Analysis
on Israeli Attacks in Gaza
Ali
Abunimah, Electronic Intifada – www.electronicintifada.net