KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show:Noted civil rights attorney, John Burris and Black Lives Matter activists speak out about another Bay Area police killing. And later, we rebroadcast our compelling interview with death row prisoner, Kevin Cooper. Governor Gavin Newsome has granted a rare special innocence investigation into Cooper’s case, after 30plus years on death row

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Today on the Show: RootsAction founder Norman Solomon explains how democrats and progressives undermined the potential of the Biden-Putin meeting.: And in a powerful twist of fate, Governor Gavin Newsome opens the door for a special innocence hearing and investigation into the case of -death-row prisoner, Kevin Cooper: We’’ll speak to cooper on death row in the first interview since Newsom gave the special and rare hearing a greet light

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Today on the Show: A group of progressive economists, lawyers, tax experts and public policy analysts call for a financial transactions tax (FTT), to be adopted initially by G7 members and then proliferated worldwide. We’ll explore what the FTT is and how it could be a crucial gamechanger for poorer countries. And we’ll feature an encore presentation of our powerful monday interview with Best-Selling author, Greg Palast

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Today on the Show: 1000 Grandmothers in Minnesota to resist pipeline three. We’ll speak to AIM co-founder Madonna Thunder Hawk, who is leading the fight to shut down the deadly pipe line now being built on sacred Indian lands. And hundreds of young climate activists from across California march across the Golden Gate Bridge. We’ll find out what’s on their mind

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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, 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: VP Harris stumbling through her trip to Central America and Mexico. Also, an encore broadcast: opponents of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, being built on Sacred Indian Grounds, protest in Rural Nevada

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Today on the show: Opponents of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, being built on sacred Indian grounds, continue their protest in rural Nevada. We’ll feature a special report. And Greg Palast Returns for another edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, as right wing vote steals continue in almost every state in US.

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oday on the show: AROC, the Arab Resource Organizing Center has called for an international week of action to #BlockTheBoat to prevent ZIM Israeli-owned cargo ships from unloading anywhere. Also, The International Indian Treaty Council joins the the Indigenous Nations of Canada in expressing outrage at the discovery of a mass burial site of 215 children who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada

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Today on the show: The People of Chile rise up and transform their government. Also, after 28 grueling days crossing the Pacific Ocean, the historic anti-nuclear sailboat, Golden Rule arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu: We’ll talk with three powerful women behind the boats unending quest for peace.

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