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Friday, May 9, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Audio links not active until 6:30pm Friday

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Thursday, May 8, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Over a million and a half Burmese in life-threatening conditions as the narco-dictatorship refuses outside aid; also, we get a report under fire from the streets of Beirut, where six people have been killed in violent political clashes; plus, the US occupation military seals off Sadr City in preparation for a wide-scale assault, we'll speak with Dahr Jamail; Kristen Ess reports on Israeli attacks in occupied Palestine as Palestinians commemorate 60 years of ongoing expulsion and ethnic cleansing by Israel; and we'll air moving excerpts of dramatic readings of Rachel Corrie's journals.

01:00 Update on Burma Disaster
Htun Aung Gyaw, former student leader exiled after being tortured in Burma

Also visit the US Campaign for Burma website and join the Burma Can't Wait 1 Million Voices for Burma campaign

08:00 Clashes Erupt in Beirut Streets
Matthew Cassel, editor, ElectronicLebanon.net, ElectronicIntifada.net


16:00 US Occupation Forces Seal Off Sadr City in Preparation for an Assault
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent, author, Beyond the Green Zone, www.dahr.org

24:00 Palestine: 60 Years of Ongoing Expulsion and Attacks by Israel
Kristen Ess, FP Palestine Bureau Chief

  Saturday May 10, 2008
Nakba-60, FREE Palestine, Peace and Solidarity Festival

On Saturday, May 10 from 12-6pm, The Local Nakba Committee and Palestine Right to Return Coalition present The Nakba-60, Free Palestine, Peace and Solidarity Festival. This FREE concert features the world renowned Hip Hop group from Palestine, Dam, and a phenomenal line up of local artists.

The festival will be held at the
For more info, visit www.araborganizing.org or call 415-861-7444.

30:00 Dramatic Readings of the Journals of Rachel Corrie
From a KPFA-sponsored April 08 event in Berkeley

40:00 Break for KPFA Fund Drive
Pledge your financial support for independent investigative news radio by calling 1-800-439-5732 or pledge securely online at kpfa.org

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces corruption and bribery charges, as Palestinians continue to face the brunt of his ethnic cleansing policies, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank; also, in a special expanded edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we'll explore the darker side of secret government and also how communities can take back their own wealth.

01:00 Israeli Prime Minister/ War Criminal Ehud Olmert To Resign; Palestinians Face Continued Attacks
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

11:00 Community Business Report
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com

40:00 Break for KPFA Fund Drive

Phone in your pledge, or pledge securely online at kpfa.org

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast
Today on Flashpoints: Twenty-two thousand dead, forty thousand missing, and a million on the run in Burma, we'll have an update on the wake of the cyclone that devastated the country over the weekend; also, ICE raids all over the Bay Area, we'll talk with Flashpoints special co-host Evelyn Sanchez about the latest roundups and terror; and we'll be joined by one of the organizers of the recent Winter Soldier testimonials, former Marine Sergeant Adam Kokesh, who is on a national tour speaking out against the continuing US occupation of Iraq.

01:00 ICE Raids in Berkeley and Oakland
Evelyn Sanchez, Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition
Know Your Rights toolkit
06:00 Tens of Thousands Killed and Missing, Millions Displaced by Cyclone in Burma
Ko Kolay, director of National Council of the Union of Burma
Link to BBC video of the cyclone's destruction

14:00 Former US Marine Speaks Out Against Bush's Illegal Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Adam Kokesh with Phil Aliff, members of the Board of Directors of Iraq Veterans Against the War – www.ivaw.org
Visit Adam's blog for Speaking Tour details
Also visit Stop-LossCongress.org to pressure congress to uphold the will of the people

30:00 Winter Soldier Testimonies
Sound from recent Winter Soldier Hearings near Washington DC

40:00 Break for KPFA Spring Fund Drive

Phone in your pledge, or pledge securely online at kpfa.org

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Monday, May 5, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Public citizens speak out against oil price gauging and the Bush Administrations support for Big Oil. Also, award winning activist and author Michael Parenti dissects the plan to aerial spray the people of Northern California with pesticides to benefit Big Ag. And on the Block Report Fred Hampton Jr speaks about political prisoner Aaron Patterson and why the Feds moved him from Illinois to Kentucky.

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Friday, May 2, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Labor activists and union organizers reflect on yesterday's international May Day actions and protests, as workers continue their struggles for justice, from the post office to the biotech industry; also, JR and the Block Report feature an interview with the parents of a 15 year old Oakland boy shot in the back by cops; and a weekly wrapup of news headlines from occupied Palestine, as Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

01:00 May Day Wrapup and Continuation of Worker's Rights 
Steve Zeltzer, labor activist
Carl Bryant, Letter Carriers Union
Allen Bradley, Freightliner Five

17:00 Update on Sean Bell Murder Case
JR and the Block Report

39:00 Weekly Report from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org

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Thursday, May 1, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on a Special Edition of Flashpoints: We broadcast live from the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, where workers and immigrants rights activists, students, teachers, and antiwar coalitions have converged on this May Day!

  Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW)

  Calls for End to the Targeting of Immigrants and
   Latinos to Enlist - source www.indybay.org

01:00 Live Broadcast from SF Civic Center: May Day, Worker's Rights and Immigrant Rights
With Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Evelyn Sanchez, Evelina Molina, Rene Saucedo, Juan Jose Gutierriez, and many others!!!
Photos: 1 | 2

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We air the hour-long pilot program, If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott, author, anti-nuclear physician and activist; she explores environmental crises, the state of climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation, and offers important solutions to effect change on behalf of the planet.
 






01:00 If You Love This Planet
Helen Caldicott, physician and author

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We get an on-the-ground report from Gaza City, where Israeli attacks continue despite Hamas' offer of a ceasefire; plus activists lose a lawsuit against the EPA for post 9/11 health disasters; JR and the Block Report focus in on the political crisis in Zimbabwe; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Afghanistan gets an Iraqi-style surge of US troops, while the Iraqi occupation battles the Madhi army and prepares for another kangaroo tribunal
• House Democrats prepare to fall on their swords once more to fund the Iraq war for yet another year
  

Robert Knight

06:00 Report from the Occupied Gaza Strip
Mohammed Omer, Freelance journalist and photographer
www.rafahtoday.org

17:00 Music Break

The WTC North Tower as seen from a NYC Police helicopter - 09/11/2001 (epa.gov)

18:00 Activists Lose Lawsuit Against EPA for Post 9-11 Health Disaster
Jenna Orkin, activist and founder, World Trade Center Environmental Organization
www.wtceo.org

30:00 Block Report: Zimbabwe Elections
JR and the Block Report

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Monday, April 28, 2008  Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Israeli attacks kill seven Palestinians in Gaza, including a mother and her four children, who were sitting around the breakfast table this morning when a missile landed on their home, we'll have an on the ground report from Gaza City; also, Kristen Ess reports from the occupied West Bank on the ongoing ethnic cleansing there, 60 years after the initial expulsion of Palestinians by Israeli forces; plus, Davey D in Massachusetts gets reaction from poet Suheir Hammad and activist Rosa Clemente to the acquittal of three NYPD officers in their 2006 murder of Sean Bell; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Chaos is a constant in occupied Iraq

Robert Knight

06:00 Israeli Rocket Strikes Kill 7 Palestinians in Gaza, Including 4 Children and Their Mother
Mohammed Omer, Freelance journalist and photographer, www.rafahtoday.org

14:00 Report from The Occupied West Bank
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

20:00 An Attack on Iran: Imminent?
Reese Erlich, author, The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis
Event: Tuesday, May 6^th, Unitarian Church in Walnut Creek - more info: www.mtdpc.org

34:00 Music Break

35:00 Suheir Hammad and Rosa Clemente on the NYPD Acquittal in Sean Bell Murder Trial
Davey D, journalist and Pacifica reporter in Amherst, Mass.

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Friday, April 25, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Blackwater mercenaries try and force their way into San Diego for the second time in a year; also, three cops walk in a brutal 2006 New York City killing of an unarmed young man the night before his wedding; plus, a tribute to the late Ruben Salazar who was just honored with a United States postal stamp, 38 years after his assassination by an LA county sheriff; headlines from the region and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro
Dennis, Evelina, Miguel Molina

05:00 Blackwater Tries To Force Itself Into Another San Diego Community                                                           NYPD Cops Aquitted in Sean Bell's Murder
Rep. Bob Filner, US Congressman
Raymond Lutz, Citizen's Oversight Committee

17:00 Three NYPD Cops Acquitted in 2006 Murder of Sean Bell
JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and M1 from dead prez

31:00 Ruben Salazar Commentary
Miguel Gavilan Molina

38:00 Headlines from the Region
Miguel Perez

43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Rene Saucedo, SF Day Labor Center

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Thursday, April 24, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: World-renowned pediatrician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott talks about her new national radio program; the Israeli military continues its special punishment for nonviolent Palestinian activists organizing their oppressed communities; JR and the Block Report take to the streets in Philadelphia as protests continue against the persecution of death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Chaos is a constant in occupied Iraq

Robert Knight

04:00 On Nuclear Weapons and Unending War
Helen Caldicott, author, The New Nuclear Danger

Watch for Dr. Caldicott's new  weekly one-hour public affairs radio program premiering soon on Pacifica's KPFT Houston.

26:00 Palestinian Resistance Against Israeli Oppression, Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing
Sami Awad, Holy Land Trust
Bekah Wolf, Palestine Solidarity Project, PalestineSolidarityProject.org

42:00 Mumia Speaks Out
JR and the Block Report with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Visit blockreportradio.com and freemumia.org

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: A special report on the decision by the West Coast Dock Workers to stop work on May 1st to express their opposition to the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Community business with Katherine Austin Fitss. We'll take a look at the continuing housing meltdown, peak oil prices and the real, behind the scenes coverup at Bear Stearns. Also food shortages and headlines from Occupied Palestine. Artists and Activists prepare to commemurate the ongoing dispossion of Palestinian homeland by painting a mural at the Edward Said Conservatory of Music in Ramallah in the West Bank and the Knight Report.


01:00 The Knight Report

• More  fighting and a staff shuffle in  the ongoing US  Occupation of Iraq.
  

Robert Knight

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: United Nations troops violently attack a Haitian market after one UN soldier is killed; also, a conscientious objector of the Iraq war takes his story into an Oakland high school; and the occupied Gaza strip faces imminent electricity cuts as Israel continues its fuel embargo in extreme and illegal collective punishment maneuvers against Palestinians.

Seaman Recruit Paredes in an undated
US Navy photo. Source: wikipedia.org

01:00 Iraq Vets Counseling Against the War
Pablo Paredes
Peter Dudar and Sally Marr, filmmakers,
Voices from War & Arlington West

Read about the trial of Pablo Paredes

35:00 Music Break

36:00 UN Troops Violently Attack Haitian Market After One UN Soldier is Killed
Seth Donnelly and Nia Imara
Haiti Action Committee

53:00 Report from the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org

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Monday, April 21, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Iraq Veterans bring a landmark lawsuit against the VA for failing to provide proper mental health care to returning vets, we'll speak to one of the key organizers; also, filmmakers report from inside the courtroom and take the story to young people; plus, a report from the occupied Gaza strip, where US-made Israeli warplanes and helicoptergunships continue to attack and kill Palestinians; Kristen Ess reports from the West Bank on the rampant torture inside Israeli prisons inflicted on Palestinian political prisoners; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report Arlington West

06:00 Iraq Vets Launch Lawsuit Against VA for Failing
to Provide Mental Health Care
Paul Sullivan, Exec. Director of Veterans for Common Sense
Peter Dudar and Sally Marr, filmmakers of Arlington West

26:00 Music Break

27:00 Report from the Gaza Strip: Israeli Attacks, Incursions
and Collective Punishments Continue
Amjad Shawa, coordinator, Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza

36:00 Palestinian
Political Prisoners and Torture Inside Israeli Prisons
Kristen Ess, Palestine Bureau Chief

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Friday, April 18, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Today on Flashpoints, we broadcast live from the Sonoma Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa! United Farmworkers win a major victory against Chales Krug, including the re-hiring of key workers; also, not a single Latino delegate was elected from the Obama campaign from San Francisco to Santa Rosa; we'll have headlines from the region, Flashpoints en Espanol, and much more!

01:00 Intro
Dennis, Miguel, Evelina

07:00 Dearth of Latino Representation of Obama Delegates from San Francisco to Santa Rosa
Placido Salazar, Latino Democratic Activist

17:00 Major Victory for Farmworkers at Charles Krug
Roberto Garcia, organizer with United Farmworkers

27:00  Three Day Labor March for Workers' Solidarity
Loyda Alvarado, Harbor Day Labor Center

37:00 Headlines from the Region
Miguel Perez

43:00 Flashpoints En Espanol
Evelina Molina and Miguel Molina

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Thursday, April 17, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We'll feature an update on the international call for action to free Mumia Abu-Jamal; we'll have an exclusive interview with the Angola 3, who were moved after 36 years of solitary confinement into general maximum security; and, an in-depth interview with Black Panther Charlotte O'Neal talks about her husband Pete O'Neal's continuing exile in Tanzania.

01:00 Update on April 19th International Day of Mobilization for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Pam Africa, spokesperson for 4/19 International Day of Mobilization for Mumia Abu-Jamal with the Minister of Information, JR from The Block Report,  www.blockreportradio.coma                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Charlotte and Pete O'Neal                                                                                                                                                                                                        08:00 Exiled Political Prisoner Speaks Out
Charlotte O'Neil, ex-black panther exiled in Tanzania
United African Alliance Community Center www.uaacc.habari.co.tz

39:00 36th Anniversary of Angola 3 Solitary Confinement
Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, from maximum security dorm
www.angola3.org

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:Food riots and grassroots struggle continues in Haiti; Also, we'll have a global perspective on the massive struggle to feed the world's hungry. A Palestinian rights activist is held in solitary confinement in his 45^th day of a hunger strike. Activist Nation features the million signature campaign in Iran and the plight of women's rights in Occupied Iraq; Our Wednesday edition of Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitz. And an update from the Wheels of Justice bus tour rolling through Lawrence, Kansas.

01:00 Haiti Update
Kevin Pina- investigative journalist, filmmaker www.haitiaction.net

09:00 Food Price Crisis
Anuradah Mittal- Executive Director, Oakland Institute http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/

18:00 Music Break

20:00 Solitary Confinement of Dr.Sami al-Arian
Laila al-Arian- daughter of Dr. Sami al-Arian (ref: www.freesaminow.com)

27:00 Activist Nation
Joe Tougas and Kayvon-Dokht Shakibaee- Iranian human and women's right activist, speaking at Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, more info: www.peacepalpitations.com

33:00 Music Break: Needle in the Groove: Track 1

34:00 Community Business Report
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com

53:00 Wheels of Justice Bus Tour
http://www.justicewheels.org/
Nora Barrows-Friedman- Flashpoints Executive Producer

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Iconic singer songwriter Ani DiFranco speaks with Nora Barrows-Friedman on her evolution as a musician, life as a mother, and her community in New Orleans; plus, our Palestine bureau chief Kristen Ess reports on the educational crisis and fuel shortages in Gaza; and the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report

• Jihadists from al-Qaeda step up bombings in Iraq as the US occupation regime continues its crackdown on the Mehdi army

Robert Knight

04:00 Educational Crisis and Fuel Shortages in Gaza
Kristen Ess- Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

Visit the International Middle East Media Center, and read the updated al-Jazeera article Israel Launches Gaza Raid

19:00 Music Break - Ani DiFranco

21:00 Canon: An Interview with Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco, singer, songwriter http://www.righteousbabe.com/ani/

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Monday, April 14, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Body of War, a new documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, we'll be joined in studio by the filmakers. Also, Nora Barrows Friedman reports from the Wheels of Justice Bus Tour, they're in Kansas. Anaronda Nital reports on a growing global hunger emergency and the Knight Report by Robert Knight.  

01:00 The Knight Report

• Muqtada al-Sadr tells Robert Gates "No withdrawal, no peace" as US airstrikes hit Baghdad and Basra.
  

Robert Knight

06:00 Body of War, a new documentary by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro

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Friday, April 11, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  We focus on state violence in Mexico against women activists and journalists.  Miguel Perez reports on a takeover in the Mexican Congress in protest of the privatization of oil.  Headlines en Espanol.

01:00 Headlines
Dennis Bernstein, Francisco Herrera, Miguel Molina

06:00 Attacks on Women Activists & Supporters in Chihuahua, Mexico
Luz Estella Castro- attorney in the case

25:00 Attacks on Community Radio in Oaxaca
Rene Bustamante, Cultural Antrophologist in Oaxaca and member of APPO

39:00 Commentary: Changes & the Vote
Miguel Molina

43:00 Headlines en Espanol
Miguel Perez-

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Thursday, April 10, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: For the third day thousands of Haitians protest the rise in food and fuel prices and call for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide; also, Kristen Ess reports as many as a million Palestinians facing hunger as UN food supplies run out; we'll get a report from Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the occupation and the huge role that contractors are playing; plus, we'll speak the organizer of the Iraq Moratorium; and the Knight Report with Robert Knight.

01:00 The Knight Report

• The myth of success in Iraq from President Bush, and its critical deconstruction by Senator Obama.

Robert Knight

07:00 UN Food Supplies Dwindle in Palestine
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

18:00 Three Days of Protest in Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent, www.haitiaction.net

33:00 Privatization of U.S. Military in Iraq
Pratap Chatterjee- investigative journalist and author, executive director CorpWatch www.corpwatch.org

43:00 Iraq Moratorium
William Simpich, civil rights attorney, steering committee for SF Iraq Moratorium

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 

Today on Flashpoints:  Israeli occupation forces kill ten Palestinians in Gaza, and kidnap 50 in the West Bank in a series of expanded raids; also, a second generation of depleted uranium, white phosphorus and other advanced US weaponry continue to take their silent toll across US-occupied Iraq; we report on an in-depth assessment of the body count of the Iraq war and occupation, by Dori Smith; and on Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we'll look at how your personal finances feed the war machine, and what you can do about it.                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Experiencing The War in Iraq

01:00 Ten Palestinians Dead in Gaza

International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org

06:00 US Weapons in Iraq Wreak Havoc on Civilian Health

Muhammed al-Darraji, Monitoring Network for Human Rights in Iraq

21:00 The Body Count in Iraq: Death Toll Over 1.1 Million Iraqis

Dori Smith, Flashpoints contributing producer, TalkNationRadio.org

41:00 Community Business Report

Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Thousands of Haitians rush the Presidential palace and are dispersed by UN forces firing tear gas and rubber bullets; also, Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess interviews a major political leader in the West Bank about the expanded colonization of Jerusalem; we'll also feature a special report on a Fallujah prison that's more like a dungeon; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Report on Haiti
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent

26:00 General Petraeus
Jason Leopold, independent journalist

46:00 Report from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, FP Palestine Bureau Chief

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Monday, April 7, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints:  Death Row political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, in his own words, talks about the status of his case for the first time since the most recent ruling from the 3^rd Circuit Court which recently denied his appeal; headlines from occupied Palestine as Israel continues to bomb and attack the Gaza strip; Rachel Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig, talk about Rachel's legacy through her intimate writing, poetry and the new book of her journals, Let Me Stand Alone; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

06:00 Mumia Abu Jamal Responds to the Developments in his Case
JR and the Block Report with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr, and Mumia Abu-Jamal

19:00 Headlines from Occupied Palestine
International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org

23:00 Music Break

25:00 Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel's parents

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Friday, April 4, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: We welcome back Francisco Herrera and broadcast live from the San Francisco Day Labor Program with co-host Rene Saucedo! We'll be focusing on recent ICE raids in the Bay Area; Rene will report back from a recent conference at the border; we'll talk about the implications of the recent militarization of the border; we'll speak with the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by a US-made Israeli bulldozer in 2003, about the publication of Rachel's writings; we'll talk about plans and protests on May Day; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol.

01:00 Intro
Francisco, Dennis, Rene

06:00 ICE Raids in Fremont, Militarization of the Border / Border Conference
Rene Saucedo, organizer with La Raza Centro Legal

30:00 Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel's parents

EVENT: Saturday, April 5, 8pm
AT:         MLK JR. Middle School in Berkeley
LINK:     www.kpfa.org for more information

42:00 Headlines from the Region

46:00 Flashpoints en Espanol

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Thursday, April 3, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: More rape allegations surface against Halliburton-KBR in US-occupied Iraq; also, excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King's moving speech on April 30, 1967, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam, and we talk about his vision against what King called the triple evils of militarism, racism and economic exploitation; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• A US General says US out of Iraq!

Robert Knight

06:00 KBR/Halliburton Implicated in Rape Case
Karen Houppert, Karen Houppert, an Air Force brat and a New York journalist and author, and contributor to The Nation magazine discusses the tragic and horrific allegations of rape involving KBR workers in Iraq. In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones's highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.

Read Another KBR Rape Case in The Nation online


Ebenezer Baptist Church Heritage Sanctuary - Atlanta, GA

20:00 Celebrating the Life and Social Justice Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech by King at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Glen Ford, Exec. Editor of Black Agenda Report

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Listen D'load Podcast 
Today on Flashpoints: Palestine Bureau Chief Kristen Ess continues reporting on Land Day and one woman's story about losing her home in 1948 when Zionist militias began to purge Palestinians from their land; also, UC Berkeley Law professor John Yoo exposed as the author of a newly-revealed torture memo; Bay Area Salvadorans protest the decision by San Francisco's Mayor to give an award to the former Salvadoran president leader of the mass-murdering Arena party; on our regular segment, Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts, we examine the Bush bailout; and the Knight Report.

01:00 The Knight Report

• The Green Zone turns red

Robert Knight

04:00 Report from Occupied Palestine
Kristen Ess, Flashpoints Palestine Bureau Chief

18:00 New US Government Torture Memo Revealed
Marjorie Cohn, National Lawyer's Guild

23:00 SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Celebrates Life of Former Death Squad Leader/President of El Salvador
Professor Felix Kuri, SF State

42:00 Community Business with Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari.com

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