KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the show: Confrontation at the courthouse in Downtown San Francisco, where heavily armed ice forces carry out violent arrests. Flashpoints contributor Francisco Herrera has been talking with those directly impacted by the raid. He’ll join us along with an eyewitness to this morning’s raid. Also We’ll feature an in-depth update on the expanding US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza. And we will continue to report on the US Israeli use of food as a deadly weapon of war.

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Today on the show: Professor Ron Lopez, Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University, speaks out against the repression and intimidation now being felt by many of his brown students. Also,  we’ll have an extensive update on the expanding US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza, where people are starting to starve to death, as US and Israeli security operatives brandish food as a weapon of war. We all know what the ribs of a starving person look like!

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Today on the Show: We’ll feature an extended interview with noted radical defense attorney, Ron Kuby, a partner to the late and great William Kunsler.  Kuby, a well respected legal commentator will address what Trump seems to have in mind for US jurisprudence if he manages to have his way. And we’ll talk about the highly contested New York city mayor’s race. Also, in the second half of today’s show, we’ll feature a special live report from Rapid Response Santa Clara at Levi Stadium, and Gabriel Hernandez, who will be on the ground for the Gold Cup Semifinal match between Mexico and Honduras, keeping an eye out for expected raids and sweeps by Homeland security.

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Today on the Show: We’ll feature an extended interview with United Farm Workers President, Teresa Romero, speaking out against the crackdown on those brown workers who do the hardest work in this country and now face jail and deportation for their amazing and crucial efforts. Romero was arrested recently during a UCSF Reagent’s meeting in San Francisco to express total solidarity with UC frontline workers. Also, Renee Saucedo, founder of ALMAS Libres/Raizes Collective joins us for a report on the Trump crackdown on domestic workers and day laborers. And Mike Fernera, past national director of Veterans For Peace,threw blood on the U.S. mission in New York and sai

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Today on the Show: Trump calls for a National Registry to track US citizens, especially, 25 million naturalized Americans he wants to throw out of our country. We continue our drum beat reports from Los Angeles and parts south with longtime human rights activist, Juan José Gutierrez: Army and National guard intervention remains a constant threat, according to various Trump surrogates. Also Genocide and mass murder continues unabated in Gaza and the West Bank: Jennifer Lowenstein joins us for an updateAnd poetry in a time of war, poet, translator, child Psychotherapist Anita Barrow

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Today on the show: Six people arrested today in New York, while protesting Palantir and billionaire Peter Thiel for turbocharging ICE raids and profiting from genocide: Also we’ll have a special report on the administration’s bid to be allowed to enforce Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally. And Justice Department says Kilmar Abrego Garcia will face US trial before any move to deport him again

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