On the 7th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, we continue our reporting on the expanding Israeli crackdown in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank. We’ll talk to Nora Barrows-Friedman about continuing clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians and we’ll also hear about a street in Palestine that was named after Rachel Corrie.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for March 16, 2010.
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Flashpoints Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on a massive Israeli crackdown in Arab East Jerusalem and the locking down of the entire West Bank. We’ll also begin our daily coverage of the lawsuit being brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie against the state of Israel for wrongful death and we’ll feature an update on the elections in Iraq with well known dissident-analyst Raed Jarrar – senior fellow with Peace Action – just back from that country.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for March 15, 2010.
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Senior producer Nora Barrows-Friedman reports for the entire hour from the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine. Nora will speak with a traumatized 10 year old arrested twice by soldiers and beaten so badly that he was hospitalized. We’ll hear from the troubled child, his family, and from a child development expert on the multiple impacts the illegal occupation is having on Palestinian children.
This program was produced for Flashpoints Radio for March 11, 2010.
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Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from occupied Palestine on the accelerated building of illegal Jewish settlements far beyond what was announced by the Israelis today.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for March 10, 2010.
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Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the illegal arrests and detention of 10 year old and 12 year old Palestinian brothers by Israeli security forces. Also, a special report from Chiapas Mexico where state security forces are cracking down on indigenous communities who they are falsely accusing of involvement in the drug trade. We’ll hear from Dr. Mads Gilbert who treated the victims of Israel’s use of unconventional weaponry in last years attack on Gaza. And students and teachers protest budget cuts all over the state.
This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio for March 4, 2010.
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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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