Nearly a month after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still in need of basic life and death necessities, we’ll continue our on the ground reporting with our special correspondent Kevin Pina; also, investigating corporations that continue to finance the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine; plus, JR and the Block Report sit down with death row journalist Mumia abu Jamal, who was recently put on the fast track to the death house by the US Supreme Court; and we’ll hear from Pam Africa who is leading the international battle to free Mumia.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for February 8, 2010.
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Flashpoints special correspondent Jamal Juma’a released from Israeli detention, he talks about his month in jail, enduring solitary confinement and psychological torture and his perseverance to keep the anti-apartheid movement going; Bekah Wolf talks about expanding Israeli settler attacks in West Bank villages; and cartoonist reporter Joe Sacco talks about the focus story of his book, Footnotes in Gaza.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for January 14, 2010.
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The US Congress votes to condemn the Goldstone Report, which corroborates Palestinians’ accounts of massive war crimes during the massacres in Gaza earlier this year, we’ll speak to a poet and activist who was dis-invited from a conference of the so-called alternative to the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, because of his views on Palestine; also, legendary economist Naomi Klein talks about California’s budget crisis, student fee hikes and disaster capitalism in a recent speech at UC Berkeley; and the Knight Report.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for November 3, 2009.
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Flashpoints Radio’s special correspondent Jon Elmer reports from the West Bank, and talks about the neo-liberal “model city” structure, entrenching apartheid and economic repression, among other current topics.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for August 10, 2009.
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This “best of” Flashpoints program features Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild on war crimes charges filed against the Bush Administration by officials in Spain, Nora Barrows-Friedman reporting from Palestine with Jamal Juma’a from the “Stop The Wall Campaign” on Land Day, and Gerald Le Melle, Executive Director of Africa Action, on African debt relief and the g20.
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Eyewitness reports from Gaza by Palestinians and international human rights workers. Ali Abunimeh joins Nora Barrows-Friedman and Dennis Bernstein.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio on Monday, December 29.
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Flashpoints Radio speaks with award-winning journalist and contributor Mohammed Omer, who was beaten and tortured by Israeli secret police, in his hospital bed; also, Ali Abunimah responds to the attack and speaks about the anti-Palestinian stance of the major presidential candidates; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges talks about the administration’s plans for war against Iran; and the Knight Report.
This program was produced by FlashPoints Radio for Monday, June 30, 2008.
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Flashpoints spends the hour investigating the situation for the indigenous Bedouin communities of the Negev desert, inside Israel’s 1948 borders. Without electricity, running water, medical clinics or schools, over 76,000 Bedouins, Israeli citizens, face ethnic cleansing and subjugation by the state as home demolitions and civil rights violations continue on a near-daily basis; we’ll visit two communities under siege and talk with a leader of an organization working inside Bedouin villages, trying to bring much-needed attention to the troubling crisis. Also, the Knight Report.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 4, 2007.
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Flashpoints Radio looks at the Israeli High Court decision that hands back over a hundred acres of stolen Palestinian land in the village of Bili’in with Yonatan Pollack, an activist with the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall. Then, Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with a Palestinian teenager about visiting her father in prison.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 5, 2007.
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Flashpoints talks to a Palestinian woman who is challenging the economic effects of the Israeli occupation of Palestine by establishing a women’s traditional embroidery collective inside the besieged city of Hebron in the West Bank; and we re-broadcast a special investigation into how illegal Israeli settlement colonies impact Palestinian villages. Later, Nora Barrows-Friedman files a special report from Hebron.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for September 3, 2007.
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