KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat reporting on the genocidal policies that the US continues to weaponize and defend. We’ll be joined again by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of the Middle East Children Alliance for frontline reports on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also students recovering from police violence at UCLA. We’ll talk to one student activist to find out what’s next for the anti-genocide movement on UCLA. And we celebrate Cinco De mayo with a commentary from our Own Miguel Gavilan Molina:

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Today on the show: We’ll speak to the president of the National Lawyers Guild, and to Chip Gibbons of Defending Rights & Dissent about the resurgence of police power in the face of the new national student movement against genocide in Palestine.  Also we’ll have a report from UCLA in the aftermath of an attack by a violent pro-Israel contingent, and we’ll talk to the author of a new book Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

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Today on the show: We feature some recent report backs from Flashpoints contributing reporter, Daniel Rodriguez, on the floatilla to Gaza and the recent student protests against the genocide in Palestine.

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Today on the Show: The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America, despite  a violent police crack down on several campuses; we’ll feature live reports from New York City and Los Angles. Also Ziad Abbas is back for a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the west bank: And we’ll also have a rafa update on the threatened israeli invasion

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Today on the show: Columbia students defy a 2pm deadline to get lost or risk their academic future as students at the elite east coast University. Also Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on the White House/white wash correspondents’ dinner-protest. Medea and her partner, roughed up and tossed out of the Correspondents dinner for holding up a sign: ‘100 journalists killed in Gaza.’ The dinner was supposed to be about free speech. We’ll speak to Laurel Krause, the sister of Aliison Krause, one of 4 students gunned down by the national guard on Kent State Campus, during a protest against the Viet Nam War in 1970. We’ll also have an eye-witness to the campus killing

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Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas is back for an update on the expanding attacks in the west bank and the expanding genocide in Gaza. Also an extended report back from the Gaza Boat to break the Israeli Embargo and and call attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.  And students and their teachers in Humbolt County Northern Cal on fire about genocIde in Gaza

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Today on the Show: Flashpoints contributor, Maud Jean Michel, in The Bay Area to join Haitian forces with anti-genocide activists. Also, the big money driving the repression on private Ivy League campuses, like Colombia and NYU. Food Not Bombs questions the insanity of Biden’s war is peace budget. And from the Young Lords to the radical elders: organizing the people in the battle against genocide and for human right

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Today on the Show: Will the Israeli genocidists invade Rafa in an act of desperation against Hamas’s sustained and effective resistance? Also we’ll feature a series of front line mini reports from Nora Barrows Friedman at the Electronic Intifada. Well also hear  Protesters from A Jewish Voices For Peace and other anti-genocide groups speaking out near Senator Chuck Schumer’s house in Park Slope Brooklyn. And Randy Credico will join us for a live report from Columbia U at the edge of Harlem, where students continue to protest, despite many suspensions and arrests

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Today on the show: On the hundredth day of hell in Gaza, we’ll  speak to the  Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, about  the cut off of US AID to the key organization assisting Palestinians in occupied Palestine. Also we’ll have another in our series of reports from special correspondent, Daniel Rodriguez, at the Gaza boat in Turkey, preparing to head to Gaza to break the israeli blockade. We’ll hear from law students for justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, in their second day camping in Sprowl Plaza, in resistance to the expanding US armed genocide in Gaza. And we’ll return to Columbia U and the streets of New York City for more coverage of the expanding global movement against Genocide in Gaza.

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Today on the Show: The students at UC Berkeley erect an anti-genocide encampment, right at the roots of the free speech movement. Also genocide Joe and the US rushing more weapons of mass destruction to Israel, but  Unwra left high and dry. We’ll untangle the big lies About UNRWA

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