KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on The Show: Co-founder of the American Indian Movement and International Indian Treaty Council, Bill Means, joins us for an in-depth look at Trump’s Klepto-policies against Indigenous communities. Bill will also address the significance of Indigenous participation in Upcoming ceremonies on Alcatraz. We’ll also feature a special report on growing hunger and homelessness with Food-Not-Bombs founder Keith McHenry

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On today’s show: We devote the entire hour to Myanmar and the revolution against the brutal military dictatorship, focusing on four amazing artist resisters. Their struggle is captured in a stunning documentary by filmmaker Jeanne Hallacy entitled Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar which is making its premiere in the SF Bay Area on Sunday, November 30 at the San Francisco Main Library.

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On today’s show: We return to Haiti with an update on the situation there and reports of more military actions of Erik Prince’s mercenaries. Another 500 US Marines are also reported to have landed, ostensibly to bolster security at the US Embassy. Then we feature another edition of the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows-Friedman

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Today on the show: We speak with Dan Kovalik, the lawyer currently representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro. And we talk about how and IF AID is getting into  Gaza. Joining us is Iyas Sartawi from Project Hope Palestine.

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Today on the Show: Camilo Perez Bustillo on violent and illegal roundups in North Carolina, as border patrol plays an expanded role in violent mass arrests. Also Trump praises the Saudi Crown Prince as a great leader of his people, despite his participation in the execution of Saudi Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who also did a column for the Washington post : And we remember our colleague and Friend, Jack Foley, the poetry man, and poetry wizard in the bay-area and here at KPFA

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Today on the show: We feature our weekly segment, Genocide-Watch, with Sam Husseini and Special Guest Craig Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer and activist and a former senior United Nations human rights official. Mokhiber will comment on the UN Security Council resolution just adopted today: This proposal has been rejected by Palestinian civil society and factions, and defenders of human rights and international law everywhere. Also Anita Barrows returns with poetry from the Genocide: And well feature a troubling new report on the use of Fumcides, as Communities Across California Denounce Unscientific Regulation of Cancer-Causing Fumicides

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Today on the show: We feature our weekly segment, Genocide Watch with Sam Husseini. Today, Sam connects the dots between child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, including deep connections with the Mosad.  Also, the US under Trump continues its arms build-up and expanding threats of a possible invasion of Venezuela. We’ll speak to Steve Ellner, associate editor of Latin America Perspectives, and we also hear about a local forum and speak out planned for Berkeley on resisting endless Trump wars

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Today on the show: Are Brentwood Police in Contra Costa, covering up brutality that may have led to elder Yolanda Ramirez’s death? We speak to her family. And, Alameda Labor Council (ALC) endorses the Oakland Peoples Arms Embargo campaign, and are largest labor body to support ending military cargo shipments leaving from the Oakland Airport to Israel. And we speak to Vilma Almendra, Indigenous author and activist from Cauca in what is known as Colombia, about Indigenous Autonomy amidst terror of war.

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