KPFA - Flashpoints

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: A global plea to free journalist & long time political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, who has been diagnosed with Covid19. Also, was 30 yeard 0ld Angelo Quinto murdered in Cold Blood in front of his mom, as he cried out that he couldn’t breathe before he went unconscious? And we remember Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his early anti-war activities with Vet’s For Peace

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Today is International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8th, 2021.

*TONIGHT ON THE SHOW WE TALK ABOUT DARK ASPECTS OF MILITARY SERVICE: STARTING WITH AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH GLORIA GUILLEN, THE MOTHER OF VANESSA GUILLEN. vANESSA WAS THE ARMY SOLDIER WHO CONFIDED IN HER FAMILY THAT SHE WAS BEING SEXUALLY HARASSED, AND AFTER GOING MISSING, SHE WAS FOUND TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY FELLOW ARMY SOLDIERS. HER MOTHER, GLORIA CALLS OUT THE ENTIRE ARMY CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR CONSPIRACY AND A COVER UP AND IS ADVOCATING FOR ZERO ENLISTMENT.

*WE ALSO WILL ALSO SPEAK TO JENNIFER DANE, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE “MODERN MILITARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, AN AIRFORCE VETERAN, JENNIFER TALKS TO US ABOUT A VERY DIFFERENT, FIGHT, HOW  MILITARY AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POLICY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST LGB AND TRANS PEOPLE WHO ARE OR WANT TO BE SERVICE MEMBERS. AND JENNIFER IS A SURVIVOR OF MILITARY SEXUAL VIOLENCE.

**WE CLOSE THE HOUR IN CONVERSATION WITH EMILY YATES, A 6 YEAR ARMY VETERAN, WRITER AND FOLK SINGER.

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Today on the Show: Pizza outlawed in Georgia To suppress the Vote. Front-line vote soldier Greg Palast, joins us with a breaking report on the expanding voter purge of tens of thousands of people in Georgia, overwhelmingly people of color

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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:13 people killed in a firey car crash, a few miles from the California/Mexico border. We’ll take a close look at who died and why:. And we’ll feature a progressive evaluation of Biden’s appoinymwents on the environmental front. Also, fighting against dozens of new laws to redistrict the voting rights of people of color.

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Today on show: A brand new edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman, that features interviews with two doctors who comment on how apartheid Israel is refusing to provide shots in the arms for Palestinians while leading the world in the percentage of Jews that are receiving the anti-covid vaccines

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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 show: A brand new report from the Oakland institute calls on Biden to put an end to the H-2A worker program that has created a captive labor force, a hairline above modern day slavery. Also the Senate confirmation hearing for Deb Haaland, nominated to become the first Native American interior secretary, morphed this week into a proxy fight over the future of fossil fuels. And Kathy Kelly joins us to talk about a fast for justice and Biden bombing of war-shredded Syria.

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Today on show: Courageous anti-police-violence activists in Colorado facing major charges for holding the cops accountable. And the immigration nightmare continues for those seeking asylum and shelter during the storm.

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