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: The San Francisco Bay Area says no to mass deportations. Communities organize and unite to take Trump on head on.  We’ll talk to Answer Coalition co-founder Dick Becker about the emerging plans for resisting fascism in America. Also, we’ll speak to a leading voice in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, about the ongoing attempt by the Trump administration to snuff out Diversity/Equity and inclusion programs. And Bibi’s back in Washington to beg the Donald for more support for Israel’s genocide in Palestine

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Today on the Show: Will Trump take action on his executive order to prepare  Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain 30 thousand of what he labels as  “the worst” undocumented immigrants we have? And High School Students in Northern California did not attend school today in response to the national call for “A Day Without Immigrants.

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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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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: Indigenous rights in the age of Trump.  We’ll feature a front line interview with Andrea Carmen, Executive Director of The International Indian Treaty Council. Also, Trump signs an executive order to prepare Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of what he labels as  “the worst” undocumented immigrants. And, the deadly politics of the great game for oil. We talk with investigative reporter and attorney, Charlotte Dennett, about the devastating impactf of the oil wars have on Palestinian self-determination and permanent peace in the Middle East.

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Today on the Show: We’ll feature a Gaza Update from Ziad Abass, executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance: Ziad will Address Gaza and the violently occupied West Bank where he grew up: And the L.A. Fires and the Future of Renewable energy

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Today on the Show: Racist sweeps continue against undocumented children, women and men. Meanwhile, Trumps weighs his options for seizing the Panama canal down south and Greenland in the extreme north. And what is the real significance behind the Release of the Kennedy Assassination documents

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Today on the show: Ice raids commence across the country. US citizens taken into custody during raids in New Jersey. Meanwhile, refugee rights activist mobilize to counteract the ICE attacks. Well spend the hour on the mobilization to fight back against the attacks

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