KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: An update on US/Korean politics, and the deterioration of

internationals relations between the US and China.Also a brand new edition of the Flashpoints Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. Today the Bulletin will focus in on the Kentucky voter access shut down and other burgeoning hot spots in the war to protect your vote. And we’ll have an important update on an upsurge of corvid19 in a number of states

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Today on the show: We feature the latest episode of the Electronic Intifada podcast with host and producer Nora Barrows-Friedman

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Today on the Show: Progressive Democrats want Ro Khanna to lead California’s delegation to the democratic presidential convention, instead of Gov. Newsom. We’ll speak to Senator Nina Turner, former co-chair of the Sanders for president campaign about it: And we’ll have and encore broadcast of my interview with San Francisco DA, Chasa Bouidin

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Today on the Show: DREAMERS win an important victory at the supreme court. Also The Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast returns: We’ll investigate Georgia’s testing grounds for the voter suppression in the 2020 presidential elections. Christopher Columbus disappears from his prominent placement at Coit Tower in shi-shi San Francisco, and food not bombs under attack in the Philippines.

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Today on the Show: We’ll have an extended dialogue with San Francisco’s DA, Chesa Boudin. We’ll talk with Boudin about how he’s riding the momentum of national uprisings to implement sweeping policy changes in San Francisco. Imagine, the city’s top law enforcer has already released half the jail population and ended cash bail!!

Then we’ll speak with Naomi Jaffe, a leading organizer for justice in New York state prisons. That’s where Chesa’s father, David Gilbert, has been incarcerated for 38 years.

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Today on the Show: A vigilante from the New Mexico Civil Guard opens fire on protesters calling for the removal of the statue of the violent Spanish Conquistador, Juan de Oñate, And We’ll have a frontline update on the case of Marqus “Red Bear” Martinez shot IN THE MOUTH with a sting-ball grenade by out of control cops in Santa Rosa, California.

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Today on the Show: One more dead black man at the hands of a killer cop in Atlanta, SAY HIS NAME, RAYSHARD BROOKS. As the hard facts on the case continue to surface, We’ll take a close look at accusations of racist law enforcement in georgia and particularly at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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Today on the Show: The fall of Columbus in Minneapolis. Also, I Can’t Breathe Tacoma Washington, another dead black man at the hands of out of control law enforcement. We’ll hear from the Mayor of Tacoma. Here in the Bay area an action to defund the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department! And hold the department accountable for its legacy of brutal and racist violence against the community:

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Today on the Show: Memorial statues of racist civil war figures such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jacksonall are targeted by the emerging defund the police movement. Well find out why. Also privitizing space and US military domination of the heavens. And Bay area youth active in defund the cops movement

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Today on the Show: Martin Gugino’s Abuse by Buffalo cops and and his history as a long time Witness against torture. Also, on a brand new edition of the Flashpoints Election Crimes Buletin with Greg Palast, we examine last night’s Georgia election heist. And we’ll have an important update on an upsurge of corvid19 in a number of states.

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