KPFA - Flashpoints

Thursday, May 1st, KPFA brings you live, on-the-ground coverage of Bay Area May Day marches and rallies, hosted by Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Gavilan Molina of Flashpoints.

This special broadcast amplifies the voices of workers, immigrants, and organizers demanding dignity, justice, and change. Featuring real-time reporting from the streets, interviews with movement leaders and participants, and reflections on the history and future of May Day as a global day of resistance.

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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: Tens of thousands of Haitians facing death-squad brutality and massive destabilization, based on decades of failed US policy. Flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina–an eye-witness to a pair of US sponsored coups in Haiti, reports. Also Seattle to City Library Employees: No Filming or Engaging With ICE Arrests at the  Seattle Public Library, according to a recent staff directive

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Today on the show:  Jennifer Lowenstein, updates the latest news from the killing fields of Gaza, the West Bank and Syria. The World Food Program warns  that Israeli blockades have entirely depleted food stocks in Gaza and warned that thousands of Palestinians could die of starvation. Also hundreds of Sonoma County California immigrants & their allies will to march on May Day To denounce Trump’s programs of mass deportations. And Unions continue their front line resistance to Trump’s extremely anti union/pro- genocide policies

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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: The genocidal slaughter in illegally occupied Palestine continues a pace. We’ll feature an extended weekly news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. And we’ll speak to Portuguese journalist and filmmaker Balolas Carvalho, currently in San Francisco for the 68th SFFILM Festival, where her short documentary Fragmented is screening as part of the Documentary Shorts Competition.

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Today on the Show: Claudia De la Cruz’s 2024 candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party for president say there’s no backing down from fascism. Also, Flashpoints Troubadour, human rights activist Francisco Herrera, remembering a fallen co-worker, and fighting for worker rights for the undocumented day laborers that do the hardest work in this country and who are often ripped off. And peace/anti genocide activists disrupt activities at Holloman AFB, in southern New Mexico, the largest drone training program in the U.S. And Miguel Gavilan Molina honors the UFW and Cesar Chaves with a special commentary

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Today on the show: We’ll speak to Raed Jarrar in Washington D.C. about Israel’s latest slaughter of unarmed and heavily self-identified medical workers shot down and apparently buried alive.  And Bernie and AOC take their fight the Oligrachy tour deep into the heart off red-state Idaho in the deep red state of Idaho

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Today on the Show: The Israelis describe its killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza and burying them and their vehicles as a “professional error”. Also Pakistan forcing tens of thousands of Afghans back into  Afghanistan currently ruled by the Taliban. Nearly three million  are facing deportation: And RootsAction says its time for a new democratic party…

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Today on the Show: Nipping facsism in the Trump-bud. Two radical human rights attorneys speak truth to power at the 11th hour. Also Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen just back from El Salvador talks about his visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, swept of the streets and imprisoned in El Salvador without recourse or hope for release

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