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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
Today on Flashpoints: Wildfires still burning out of control in Northern and Southern California. We’ll feature an special update with Flashpoints Senior Producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina, who lives just outside of Santa Rosa. We’ll also speaks with author and filmmaker Stephen Most, who is working on a new film called Wilder Than Wildfire: Forests & … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Wildfire burning throughout California. We’ll feature a special news update with KPFA news’s Christina Asnestad. Also, we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day with sound from this morning’s annual Sunrise Ceremony from Alcatraz. And we’ll speak with legendary civil rights attorney, Daniel Sheheen.
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.
Today on Flashpoints, An extended front-line update on the struggle to get life and death aid to US citizens in Puerto Rico, still reeling from the storm. Also, Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network responds to Governor Brown signing of SB 54 declaring all of California a Sanctuary State
Today on Flashpoints: A national call to action for Puerto Rico, and the people’s refrain is relief and rebuild. Also, we’ll feature a special report on the resource driven genocide against the indigenous Batwa people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Also, The citizen’s movement rising up to save Puerto Rico after the President … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Pro-whistle-blower activists defend N.S.A. whistle-blower, Reality Leigh Winner, against what they claim is an overzealous prosecution. We’ll speak to Winner’s mom, Billy Winner Davis about her daughters imprisonment without bail, as well as with an activist who has founded the group Stand with Reality to call attention to Winner’s Plight and support … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Puerto Rico in ruins, Trump blames the victims for their own plight and lets loose with a flood of negative tweets blaming the mayor of San Juan for the deadly breakdown. Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and activist Aurora Levins Morales and noted Puerto Rican Poet and essayist, Martin Espada, respond to … Continued
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.
Today on Flashpoints: We bring you updates on Korea & Mexico City. Also, we feature a discussion on the ongoing battle for the so called Korean “Comfort Women” and local and global struggles to have the Japanese government acknoledge and apologize for the cruelest and most deadly program of mas sex trafficking in modern history.
Today on Flashpoints, Emmy award winning filmmaker, John Pilger shreds Ken Burn’s Nationalistic recasting of The Viet Nam War: And we’ll feature excerpts from Pilger’s powerful new Film, The Coming War on China
