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Today on show:

Gloria La Riva joins us from Miami.

She is just back from Havana Cuba to organize another series  of shipments of crucial goods and needed medical supplies for tens of thousands of Cubans cut off by Trump.

The Democratic National Committee greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two federal statutes known as the Leahy law.

Daily Poems for the Genocide, Anita Barrows shares poem 1,046.

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Today on the Show:

Culture Clash founder and award-winning playwright and Icon, Richard Montoya, is keeping track of ICE in L.A, where life  for undocumented and documented brown people has become a very treacherous place to live.

Greg Palast is Tracking Trump and white-power Washington as the criminal and Chief gets ready to fling a couple of well-placed wrenches into the up-coming midterm election.

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Today on the show:

US imperialism under Trump, expanding a right-wing agenda into a half-dozen Central and South American countries.

The US does almost everything in its power to sink the Cuban revolution.

We’ll speak with human rights Attorney and a leader at Witness at the Border Camilo Peres Bustillo for a sweeping update of the region.

Flashpoints contributor and resident troubadour, Francisco Herrera reports from a community meeting called to deal with the ongoing ICE raids in Northern and Central California.

Farmworkers and Advocates, Including Legendary Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta, Rallied at the State Capitol to Demand Accountability from California’s Pesticide Regulators.

We’ll speak to two members of Californians for Pesticide Reform who have been right in the middle of the debate.

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Today on the show:

We’ll feature and update on the violent destabilization policy the Trump administration is using against Venezuela and the entire region.

Venezuela’s duly elected President and first lady remain under arrest in a US jail with no court date in sight.

Dan Kovalik reports on destabilization issues as he outlines Trump’s 7 Deadly Sins in Latin America.

The Earthquake in Venezuela continues to take its toll. We’ll feature a report from the ground.

The US Extra-legal assassination  program against alleged drug-traffickers, often with little or no proof.

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:

Celebrated Poet and Mission District Icon Alejandro Murguía.

Murguía is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center.

He is the founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America.

We’re going to talk about poetry and revolution.

We will rebroadcast our extremely powerful interview with Palestinian-American Human Rights Activist-Attorney Huwaida Arraf.

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Today on the Show:

We’ll have an in-depth report on Gaza and on the brutal attacks by the  Israeli military against the international movement to bring food, supplies and medical aid to help counteract the suffering from the ongoing genocide.

How dangerous is the plan  for the US to sell commercial Nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia.

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ON TODAY’S SHOW:

Joining us today is special guest, United Farmworker’s President, Teresa Romero.

What is life for thousands of undocumented workers and their families under the expanding Trump’s ICE sweeps.

Our drumbeat coverage of Haiti and hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the US facing immediate deportation and intense pressure to leave or be deported.

We’ll also be joined by Francisco Herrera just back from A farmworkers organizing tour in Florida.

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Today on the Show:

THE ROAD FROM HIROSHIMA: A POWERFUL POETIC  DRAMATIZATION OF THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA 80 YEARS AGO, AUGUST 6TH 1945.

Nuclear madness meets AI.

We’ll feature our regular Thursday live collaboration PINKNOTES, with Code-Pink.

THEIR SPECIAL GUEST IS PATRICIA ELLSBERG/ARRESTED AT 88 THIS MORNING FOR PROTESTING US INSTIGATED WARS AROUND THE GLOBE.

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Today on the show:

An extended interview with long-time civil rights attorney , Ron Kuby, close associate of the late civil rights icon, radical Attorney William Kunsler.

Ron has been taking notes on the the New Jersey Stand-off at an ICE jail  that hunger strikers being held inside refer to it as a concentration camp.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died there Aug.1st while being held at Delaney Hall.

Some might call it an official state-sponsored slow-motion murder.

We’ll feature a musical visit by political singer/songwriter David Rovics.

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TODAY ON  THE SHOW:

We continue our drumbeat coverage of the violent situation in Haiti, as a result of US destabilization policies.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians on edge, and on the run in the US.

Professor Ron Lopez, Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University, joins us To talk about teaching students at risk for ice harassment and actual deportation.

We’ll talk some left/right politics with Roots Action co-founder, Norm Solomon.

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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