KPFA - Flashpoints

TODAY ON  THE SHOW:

The Legalization For All Network  takes a strong stand of non-cooperation with ICE.

We’ll be joined by Danny Salaya, one of the lead organizers with Community Service Oakland.

Flashpoints Contributor Harvey Wasserman with an update on Solartopia and the global battle for Clean energy.

Mothers for Peace continue their fight to close down Diablo Canyon Nuke which they say is an accident waiting to happen.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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 Legendary Lalo Alcaraz, best known for being the author of the comic La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated, politically themed Latino daily comic strip.

We feature an extended update with Professor Ron Lopez, Sonoma State University, on the struggles being faced by undocumented Students and their families.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Our weekly genocide newscast from the electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman.

PINK NOTES: Our weekly collaboration with Code/Pink.

CODE-PINK FOUNDER MEDEA BENJAMIN will be our special guest today.

And Anita Barrows with Daly poems on the Genocide.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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On today’s show:

We feature another clandestine interview from Haiti where at least 47 people, including women and children, were slaughtered this past weekend by a terrorist gang coalition.

At least 50 women and children are currently being held hostage as human shields.

Many Haitians are accusing Prime Minister Didier Fils-Aime, the US-trained Haitian police, and US mercenaries working with Erik Prince, of negligence and complicity.

Then we go back to Iran with Dr. Foad Izadi to discuss Trump’s so-called “Economic D-Day” aimed to further destabilize and punish its government and people.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

Greg Palast speaks out about the Supreme court ruling that can turn the US election upside down.

We’ll talk to two anti-trump activists arrested for resisting deadly US policy in the Middle East.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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:

We’ll be joined by Flashpoints Special Contributor, attorney Renee Saucedo on the frontlines in the North Bay of San Francisco, standing against the ICE abduction machine, as the sweeps continue.

Also Frontline rural Photographer David Bacon, out with his cameras in the fields of misery, documenting the lives of the people who do some of the hardest work in this country, the work that keeps the wheels of commerce spinning.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on a special edition of the Show:

The future of Cannabis in California.

The Feds declassify Pot for limited medical use, advocates say it’s a big step forward.

We’ll spend the hour on the future of weed/legally/medicinally/socially.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, 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.

WE’LL feature our weekly segment PinkNotes/our collaboration with CodePink.

This week we are joined by special guest retired United States Army colonel, former U.S. diplomat, peace activist, and author, Anne Wright.

She served 29 years in the Army and Army Reserves, focusing on special operations and civil affairs, and spent 16 years in the U.S. State Department with postings in conflict zones including Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Mongolia.

And we’ll feature  our weekly  news report from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on Flashpoints:

We turn our attention back to the horrible situation facing over 350,000 Haitians who will soon be forced back into the hell that US foreign policy has created over decades of intervention including coups and rigged elections.

We also speak with an advisor to Venezuela’s National Assembly in Caracas about criticisms of the interim president Dely Rodriguez and the battle to keep the Chavismo and the Bolivarian revolution alive.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Today on show:

We rebroadcast our powerful interview with radical environmentalist and activist Giselle Perdomo in VENEZUELA.

Poetry from the suites to the streets: Berkeley Poetry Festival presents Poetry Takes Root, with award-winning poets Maw Shein Win and MK Chavez.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.

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