KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: Calling Out the Democrats to Pass Legalization Legislation for millions of undocumented people. Also, fighting for Indigenous rights and turning back the illegal extractors on native lands: And our weekly Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast returns with compelling new information about voter suppression in Georgia and around the US.  And Palast also reports on how Trump wants to make teaching history illegal

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On today’s show we take a closer look at the media spectacle we’re calling Mr. Netanyahu comes to Washington with our guest Richard Silverstein of the online publication Tikun Olam.  Next up, Keith McHenry of Food not Bombs joins us as we cover an executive order clearing homeless encampments throughout the state issued by California Governor Gavin Newsom today piggybacking off a June Supreme Court decision criminalizing homelessness. Finally, we return to Haiti with Flashpoints political analyst Frantz Jerome to discuss disturbing developments within the so-called Presidential Transition Council ruling the island nation since a US/CARICOM brokered agreement was signed to ostensibly address the problem of paramilitary gangs.

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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: Code Pink protests the Netanyahu visit to the US, as the deadly US Israeli Genocide against Palestine, continues to expand: also we’ll listen in to a little of Kamala on the stump for pres: And  Award-winning Palestinian-American poet, writer, and editor. Deema K Shehabi joins us for a mini-reading…Shehabi has family in middle of the Gaza Genocide.

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Today on the Show: An update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Will Harris make a difference if she is elected? Also, we feature a rebroadcast of a powerful  eye-witness account from a front-line trauma surgeon just back from treating genocide victims in the Gaza Strip. And Julian Assange is a free man but the good journalism that got him jailed is in jeopardy based on the courts actions

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Today on the show: The future of immigrant rights in the USA: we spend a good part of the hour with front line refugee rights activist and National spokesperson for NDLON, or the National day-laborer organizing Network, Pablo Alvarado::and we’ll have a singout for labor and human rights with Flashpoints resident troubadour, and the co-director of the San Francisco daylabor center..

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Today on the Show: Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent, protesting the Gaza genocide at the republican convention. Rowley is a strong supporter and advocate for

Freedom Flotilla to break the Gaza siege. Code Pink planning a special welcome for the noted Genocidist, Bebe Netenyahu in Washington. And we’ll feature frontline headlines from Nora Barrows Friedman at the electronic Intifada

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Today on the Show: An eye-witness report from a surgeon just back from treating genocide victims in the Gaza Strip: The message from the doc, ” As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza”. We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues. Is it times for the Dems to say no more Joe, step aside. And poet Anita Barrows continue to take on the Gaza Genocide in Poetry. Vote

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