KPFA - Flashpoints

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: Nora Barrows Friedman speaks out against the US decision to embrace serial criminal, Israeli Prime minister, Netanyahu in the middle of the expanding ethnic cleansing of Palestine.  Also, locking arms with the Palestinian struggle: a powerful two-part edition of Electronic Intifada that delves into the campaign of Jeremy Corbyn and the Israel lobby’s efforts to smear and sabotage it

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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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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: We track: the progress of the select subcommittee ask they keep researching the :origins: of the Coronavirus pandemic,  Sam Husseini, independent journalist, joins us to anayize their findings. Then, Tracking Hate! First, I talk to a recently unionized california bookstore employee, about how they are staying resilient, despite being targeted with hate flyers in their books. Then, I talk with the Southern poverty Law Center, about the rise in hate against the LGTBQ community and what we can do about it.

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Today on the show: We are going to try to tell the story of a life, the life of Angelo Quinto, and how he lives on. Angelo, was a young man, , a Navy veteran, and much loved member of his family. Angelo’s death was attributed to Excited Delirium. ..a term often used when people die at the hands of police. However, the family, with help of their lawyers, is beginning to prove otherwise. We will have a discussion with the family of Angelo Quinto’s family about his life, his death, and some of their tireless work for justice. . I want to first welcome the family, Angelo’s Mother and Father, Cassandra, and Robert and Angelo’s sister Bella

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Today on the show: As Cluster Bombs are sent to the Ukraine, we hear a roundtable discussion with guests with first hand knowledge of what these and other Anti-Personnel Weapons do, and how they still affect people decades later. We will also check in with Reporter, Ziead Abbas, for an update about Jenin Refugee Camp and Palestine.

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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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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: We discuss incarceration through the lens of two Community programs. First, we will speak to Tamisha Torres-Walker: founding member and Executive Director of the “Safe Return Project”, a campaign that seeks to secure the freedom and liberation of formerly incarcerated individuals. Then in the second half we we meet up with members of  Uncuffed, namely, members of the “The Uncuffed Playlist”  where incarcerated people, At Solano State Prison in Vacaville,  California, are learning how to be radio DJs.

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