KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: Israeli settlers backed up by the IDF, and heavily armed private security forces step up their attacks on the West Bank;  they are met by heavy resistance. Ziad Abas from Mecca is back  to talk about the expanding destruction of his homeland: Also Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent is on her way to Gaza to break the Blockade on the Freedom Flotilla: and on the domestic front, it’s 420 day and pot is on the front burner in Washington D.C.

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Today on the show, We’ll feature a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank from Ziad Abbas of MECA.  Also a report from Turkey on the Gaza Flottila to break the Israeli embargo on Palestine. In Haiti, Is Jimmy Cherizier alias BBQ,  a revolutionary as some folks are painting him or a ruthless gang leader manipulating public opinion to get amnesty? And poetry as an antidote to war and genocide

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Today on the show: A special report from the Gaza flotilla to break the Israeli embargo. Also, Flashpoints special correspondent, Sam Husseini, questions the state department on the IDF’s use of the sounds of children pleading for help to lure Palestinians into a deadly crossfire: also distinguished international law scholar, Francis Boyle, returns to discuss Nicaragua’s decision to take Germany to the World Court for Enabling Israel’s Genocide. And Immigrant Rights Organizations Pushing for Passage of the Pending “Registry Bill.  We’ll be joined by attorney/activist Renee Saucedo to talk about the plans for long walks in support of crucial bill

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Today on the show, A tribute to the late poet and Founder of Poetry for the People, June Jordan: Also Ex-US military men heading to Gaza by Flotilla to break the deadly Israeli Blockade: And Teachers and Parents Fight Israeli Lobby Smears on the schools and teachers in Berkeley California: we’ll feature a segment from the Electronic Intifada with a lawyer and a middle school teacher about the struggle to teach the truth about Palestine, Hosted by Nora Barrows Friedman

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Today on the Show: Pro Palestinian protestors shut down two main freeways and the Golden Gate Bridge during the AM rush hour in San Francisco. Also, Code Pink’s Cynthia Papermaster says NO to paying her taxes and would rather give the cash to KPFA than to the war machine.

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Today on the Show: A special showing of American Homeboy, a documentary that explores the complex origins of Pachuco and Cholo culture which sprouted from American soil in response to wartime sentiment, social alienation, and government discrimination only to become a cultural phenomenon. And, signa of our times on the bus stops of Washington DC. Instead of selling soap powder, they are calling for an end to the US Israeli genocide in Palestine

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Today on the show: A Palestinian American law student at the U.C Berkeley accuses a professor of assaulting her during a backyard dinner held at the home of the school’s dean, Erwin Chemerinsky.  Also, a brief history on the illegal and violent occupation of Palestine. And a landmark law suit on the safety and dangers of keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor on line. opponents say its a major disaster waiting to happen.

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Today on the Show: Biden says the US is considering dropping its witch-hunt prosecution of Julian Assange We’ll feature a special report, with Randy Credico. Also a frontline Gaza/west bank update, with MECA executive director, Ziad Abbas. And Richard Silverstein reports on Artificial Intelligence and the Israeli War Machine

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Today on the Show: Is genocide Joe Biden getting ready to pull the plug on Israel’s expanding regional war  before Bebe goes thumbs up for Trump? We’ll welcome back Raed Jarrar with Democracy for the Arab World Now. Also tightening the anti-abortion noose around Roe and pro choice, and a poet takes on the first hundred days of the Israeli Genocide

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Today on the Show: Protesting Germany’s support for the Israeli genocide against Gaza. And, we celebrate the work of our very own, Miguel Gavilan Molina.

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