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American Indian Movement founder, Bill Means, speaks out on turning Alcatraz back into a maximum security prison: and Violent ICE sweeps met by peaceful resistance in Sacramento California, as dozens are arrested in the latest sweep. And Flashpoints contributor Francisco Herrera

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Today on the show: Over a hundred more Palestinians murdered in cold blood in Gaza today. The attacks included the bombing of a Catholic church in Gaza where man women and children were sheltering. As we do every Thursday, we’ll the independently produced weekly newscast from the electronic intifada, with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also Trump says he’s planning to move forward on turning Alcatraz into a prison for jailing thousands of refugees before they are de[ported: will San Franciscans rise up and fight back. We’ll talk to two of them who have already began organizing to fight back

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Today on the Show: We broadcast  live from the Medicine For Nightmares Book store in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District: We spend the entire hourwith Dr. Nolan Cabrera, featuring his new book, BANNED, THE FIGHT FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE STREETS AND IN THE COURTS

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Today on the show: Pro-Palestinian activist, Yves Engler, faces backlash by Canada’s support for Israel Yves runs for office in Montreal with the New Democratic Party. Also ICE and Homeland Security on the Attack in the South Bay , just south of San Francisco: we’ll feature a special report as people brace themselves for potential expanded deportations.

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Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas, Executive Director of the Middle East- Children’s alliance joins us for a Gaza update and to talk about a major action MECA is sponsoring later this month. Also we continue our drum-beat reporting on the Homeland Security Sweeps, taking place now across the state and the country: We’ll be joined in Los Angeles by  long-time radical immigrants rights activist, Juan Jose Gutierrez, and in Sonoma county in Northern California, by seasoned civil rights and human rights attorney  Omar Figueroa

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Today on the Show: We welcome back celebrated actor, producer, and co-founding member of the  legendary performance troupe, Culture Clash, Richard Montoya–fighting back against Trump and the ICE crackdown in L.A.:  And we continue our reporting on the genocide in Gaza with a daily poem from Anita Barrows: a precious accounting of the suffering and brave resistance, that Barrows is documenting day by day

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Today on the Show: Haiti in shambles and thousands of Haitians on the run. Also, an extraordinary week of violence in Occupied Gaza and the west bank. this week’s newscast from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman reports on the on-going and expanding violence, and the continuing deadly Israeli Drone attacks on Civilians in Gaza:

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Today on the show: We’ll feature a special extended report from Southern California with long-time radical immigrants rights activist, Juan Jose Gutierrez: Juan Jose speaks to us from Los Angeles, where federal forces of ICE, regular soldiers, and National guard have started to patrol the streets and the parks, creating terror and undermining daily life. Also We’ll feature an update on the expanding killing fields of the Gaza strip, where 2 million people are food insecure and starting to starve to death, and food has become a frontline weapon of war

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Today on the show: Confrontation at the courthouse in Downtown San Francisco, where heavily armed ice forces carry out violent arrests. Flashpoints contributor Francisco Herrera has been talking with those directly impacted by the raid. He’ll join us along with an eyewitness to this morning’s raid. Also We’ll feature an in-depth update on the expanding US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza. And we will continue to report on the US Israeli use of food as a deadly weapon of war.

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