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This week on Full Circle, we’ll speak with an activist on the frontlines of the battle with ICE abducting our friends, families and neighbors. We'll talk about what happened in San Francisco on Tuesday when protesters put their bodies on the line while attempting to block ICE from abducting a person at immigration court. This activist also recently returned from the West Bank in Palestine as she worked with the International Solidarity Movement, serving as a protective presence. We'll talk about that as well. And we will close out the show with a quick update on a free mental health event tomorrow in Pittsburg.

On this episode of Full Circle we bring it back here to the Bay Area and bring you news from a recent press conference and some information about an upcoming event coming to the Bay Area. We will hear voices from a press conference and rally opposing the early release of former Contra Costa County Sheriff Deputy Andrew hall. He actually killed two men suffering from a mental health crisis on two different occasions. He was convicted in one of the killings but was released from San Quentin after serving less than half of his six year sentence. We will bring you an update from the press conference and rally. Then we'll bring you some news and information about the Mumia Freedom From Frame Up Tour. Mumia Abu Jamal's son Jamal will be passing through the Bay Area talking about the fight to free his father. Their lawyer working on the case, Rachel Wolkenstein will be joining us for an update.

This week on Full Circle we continue to keep our eyes and ears on Palestine as well as Yemen and the Arabian peninsula. On tonight's show, college students from 11 Northern California universities speak out against the Trump administration's kidnapping of their fellow international students. We'll hear from the press conference they held yesterday at San Francisco State University. Then we’ll hear from a book launch event for the novel “Vanished” The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda. We’ll hear excerpts featuring the publisher and the author Ahmed Masoud. And we’ll close out the show with our friends from The Electronic Intifada and hear from Jon Elmer as he updates us on the United States Aggression on Yemen and their response.

This week on Full Circle we will check in on the health of California water supplies. On tonight’s show we’ll hear voices and an interview from the SAve California Salmon, Water Protection Speaker Series, Where Does Your Water Come From? Then in the second half of the show we'll head to New York, where folks from, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) are presenting a bill that would grant legal rights to all water bodies in the state.

This week on Full Circle we continue to keep our eyes and ears on Palestine, and the resistance here at home. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear voices from an emergency rally to free Mahmoud Khalil. The rally was last Saturday at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. Among those voices will be students from San Francisco Universities. Then we’ll check in with Toby Blome (BloMay) of Shut Down Drone Warfare. They have a week of actions coming up at Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico. She’ll tell us all about it and how to get involved if you’re interested.

This Week On Full Circle, we turn our eyes and ears back to Palestine, Yemen and the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. On tonight’s show, we’ll hear from Sen. Chris Murphy D-CT and Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil the Columbia University graduate that was arrested last week and the protests that followed. Then we’ll check in with Jon Elmer of the Electronic Intifada. He hosts the Resistance Report, a weekly segment of the Electronic Intifada. Jon will give us an update on the way Israel has broken the agreements of the ceasefire over one thousand times. After that, Jon will give us an update on Anser Allah aka the Houthi Rebels, and the naval blockade of shipments to Israel in the Red Sea.

This week on Full Circle, we’ll hear from the People’s Arms Embargo as they blocked the entrances to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield CA. We also will check in with Sophie, a high school student attending Contra Costa College, she is organizing a rally for Palestine on her campus in San Pablo. Part of their grievance is the suspension of professor Asad Kabir for speaking up about Palestine in an all staff email. We’ll speak with professor Kabir as well.

As the devastating war in Gaza continues and of course expanding now into the West Bank Lebanon Syria Iraq and Yemen. We continue to keep our eyes and ears on Palestine and the region. On tonight’s show, We’ll share information about the effort to block a 20 billion dollar weapons deal with Israel. After that update, we’ll hear from the Children’s Press Conference that was held Saturday at the Oakland Children’s Hospital Research Center. Including an interview with organizers of the Children's Martyrs Display that was erected at the event.

This week on Full Circle, We’ll share information about a couple of local Palestinian solidarity events happening here in the Bay Area. The Children's Press Conference In Oakland And another Potluck for Palestine. We’ll also share some Palestinian Solidarity songs.

On this episode of Full Circle, I will share the story of my cousin, Timothy Charles Lee. He was found lynched in a tree near the Concord BART station in 1985, today we call this MMIP, Missing or Murdered Indigenous People. In the second part of the show, we’ll hear from protesters who disrupted a Halloween event of State Senator Scott Weiner. The mainstream media made it out as an anti-Semitic attack. We’ll hear from the protesters themselves as to why they protest the Senator’s policies