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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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: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler/Colonialism in the Palestine Liberation Struggle.

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Today on the show: The genocidal slaughter in illegally occupied Palestine continues. We’ll feature our weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also more poetry from the genocide with Anita Barrows/ That’s Nora’s mom!!

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Today on the show: We have a special report on an issue that could impact thousands of you listening to this right now. -A start up company , has been testing for a plastics Incineration Facility, in Rohnert Park California, and has been under the radar of the public until now. We also share an update on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of 52 boats reaching Gaza in a few days, facing attacks, has said they will not turn back in their quest to give humanitarian, basic aid to the people of Gaza.

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Today on the show: Professor Ron Lopez, Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University, speaks out about the crushing impact Trump crack downs and ICE sweeps are having on his students: And College Democrats of America and Other Groups Call for Firing UC Berkeley President James B. Milliken, Over “Betrayal” of Academic Freedom

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Genocide watch: Our weekly update on the US armed genocide against Gaza and the West Bank with Flashpoints Special contributor, Sam Hussaeni. Today Sam and I will be joined by activist attorney Robert Jereski who has led CODEPINK’s World Court Project. We’ll keep one eye on the genocide and one eye o the UN as it opens for business again. Also Senior producer Kevin Pina on the real politics regarding Venezuela and Haiti

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Today on the show: The celebrated founder of Culture Clash and award winning playwright, Richard Montoya. Also, noted refugee rights advocate and honorary Mayor of San Francisco’s Historic Mission District, Roberto Hernandez will join us

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Today on the show: The Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman: Nora reports that the genocide continues and more Palestinians die of starvation, as the Israelis continue to blockade the flow of crucial food supplies and medicine badly needed by the Palestinians. Meanwhile over a half million people on the run with no where to hide: And a protest at Oakland ariport against using private airports as pipe lines to resupply the genocide.

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Today on the show: We hear about a public Press conference happening tomorrow at the Oakland Airport, it’s a part of the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo Campaign. We also speak with the Communications Direction from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. 35 years strong yet some very hard times still to come. We talk about what they and others are doing to ease the cruelty of the current administration. And we will close the show with Part 2 of The Hasta Encontrarte Collective, a story of Women Searchers in Mexico, doing whatever it takes, including searching for their missing loved ones, by excavating public and private lands for graves. We talk to a member of the Collective and also to Amnesty International Mexico about the risks the searchers face, and ways to prevent forced disappearances.

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