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TODAY ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF FLASHPOINTS:

WE CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS  PEOPLE’S DAY WITH AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH Jeff Chang BY FLASHPOINTS CONTRIBUTOR JENNIFER HASEGAWA.

BASED ON HIS MOVING BOOK WATER  MIRROR  ECHO.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the show:

The genocide upsurge continues in Occupied Palestine: we’ll feature as we do every aThursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also today, we’ll feature our ongoing presentation of poems of the Genocide, as Anita Barrows contines her commitment to write a poem to document every single day of the current and ongoing, US financed genocide in Palestine: and for our national audience we rebroadcast our segment on a devastating decision for millions of immigrants as the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, and Third-country deportations.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. 

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On today’s show, we return to Caracas Venezuela to talk with Giselle Perdomo about the gold and oil being lifted from the country by the White House mafia. We’ll also address the tough choices being made by the Bolivarian Circles movement and the leadership of the Venezuelan government.

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Today on the show:

Excerpts from a powerful new speech by endangered Palestinian organizer and writer Mahmoud Khalil on political repression, Palestine solidarity, and the fight against authoritarianism in the United States and around the world. The discussion will also mark the publication of Khalil’s first book, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention, a memoir drawing on his prison diary and recounting his arrest, incarceration, separation from his family, and continuing struggle against deportation.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the Show: we kick-off a new series of Longer interviews that we’re calling the Long Form, Hosted by award-winning Poet and writer Jennifer Ja-Ha Hasegawa: We kick off the series today with an extended interview with Jeff Chang, the American Book Award-winning author of: Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. Chang’s cultural biography that explores Bruce Lee’s impact on the Asian American identity, from segregated San Francisco to martial arts stardom.

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Today on the show:

Nuclear Madness at the edge: We’ll be joined by Linda Seeley of Mothers For Peace, On a special edition of Pinknotes, our continuing collaboration with CODEPINK.

Linda Seeley has been in a multi-year, pitched battle to shut down Diablo Canyon before it melts down and turns a good chunk of the California north coast into a museum you need protective gear to enter.

Joining us again  is Cynthia Papermaster of CODE PINK who has helped us cook up this weekly collaboration with Code pink.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the show:

We continue our drumbeat coverage of the continuing US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza, and the expanding settler violence in the occupied west bank.

For a front line view of the ongoing genocide across Palestine, we’ll feature the expanded weekly edition of the powerful Electronic Intifada Newscast, with Nora Barrows Friedman.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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On today’s show:

We discuss Priests Against Genocide’s recent direct action campaign in Rome and at the UN in New York with Father John Heagle. He also discusses the progressive role of Pope Leo and the fallacies of Christian Zionism.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on the Show:

In a devastating decision for millions of  immigrants, the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, Third-country deportations.

We’ll speak to Longtime human rights, civil rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez about the multiple implications of this decision.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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