KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: Tony Blinkin talking peace, defending the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine. Also, we evaluate the concept of votepact and find out which one gives you a chance to vote against Biden without voting for Trujmp.  And Code Pink’s Cynthia Papermaster held in a San Francisco jail on 50,000 bail for civil disobedience by spilling mock blood on the walls of Nancy Peloci’s home.

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Today on the Show: A new draconian, anti democratic Texas state law known as S.B.4, is put on hold Tuesday, after a U.S. federal appeals court blocked it’s further implementation. We’ll speak with Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, about the grassroots battle to prevent the further implementation of S.B.4: Also We explore the role the US is now playing in subverting the people’s will for democracy and self-determination in Haiti. And code-pink activist, Cythia Papermaster facing felony charges for spilling mock blood on Nancy Pelosi’s property in San Francisco

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Today on the Show: New attacks on Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, as dozens are killed and wounded, dozens more interrogated and taken prisoner, some being shot at close range on the spot. Meanwhile, World Bank is predicting famine in a matter of months. Here in the US Prominent Jewish Americans oppose AIPAC and Israeli lobby influence on US elections

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Today on the Show: Racist Texas border law slides into place, thanks to the Supreme Court. We’ll look at Israel’s emerging starvation programs in occupied Palestine.  Also, on FOODFIGHT! with Keith McHenry, what to do when the houseless come knocking for food to eat and a place to sleep?

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Today on the Show: Chicano Luminary, Luis Rodriguez, author of the landmark work Always Running, speaks with us about genocide at home and abroad. Also, Code Pink founder and author Medea Benjamin confronting the former speaker of the U.S. House of Reps on US support for genocide in Gaza. Growing  violence in Haiti as US destablization policy comes home to roost.

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Today on the Show: Global War Resister, Kathy Kelly, on St. Patrick’s Day and Gaza, where starvation is used as a weapon of war.  Also Cynthia Papermaster resisting the Gaza genocide at Pelosi’s Place. And live from Japan, Deconstructing War Landia with Arun Gupta

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Today on the show: Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues as dozens more civilians are murdered. Meanwhile, in Haiti, gangs empowered by years of US destabilization politics have taken control of the streets, instituting a region of deadly terror. The US sends in Marines to secure the Embassy with emergency evacuations of foreigners ongoing.

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Today on the Show: Israel’s military plans to transfer about 1.4 million Palestinian civilians trapped in southern Rafah city to “humanitarian islands” in the middle of Gaza before it launches a ground invasion. Critics call the plan, another deadly humanitarian nightmare in the making. Also, Pro-Palestinian, antigenocide activists Block business as usual at San Francisco international Airport. And the Block Report returns with a frontline interview on Remembering the Rwandan Genocide

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Today on the Show: Palestine Legal and the New York Civil Liberties Union announce a lawsuit against Columbia University for the unlawful suspension of students for engaging in peaceful protest. Also the politics of the Low Riders and what the fancy cars meant to the burgeoning Latino/Chicano human rights movement

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Today on the Show: More arrests around the country, and around the world, in the growing global resistance to the expanding Genocide in Palestine. Also we continue our special Drum Beat Coverage of Haiti 20 years after the US coup: Flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina and country expert, Journalist Jeb Sprague, report on the violent situation on the ground, and also on a shipment of tainted and dangerous rice, sent from the US that could be responsible for deaths in Haiti

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