Today on Flashpoints: We feature highlights from the Cannabis Cash and Public Banking Conference in Santa Rosa, California. We’ll feature interviews and speeches from this event.
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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, we talk with senior correspondent, Miguel Gavilan-Molina, about tomorrow’s sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz Island, here in the SF Bay Area. The event is being held in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their resistance to the Dakota access pipeline. Then we turn our attention back to Haiti, where recent elections … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: The future of Public School Education under a Trump Presidency: Also What kind of attorney general will a white supremacist like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions make: And we’ll replay yesterday’s eye-witness account of Sunday’s police attack at Standing Rock
Today on Flashpoints: An exclusive eye-witness account of last night’s violent attack against Standing Rock water protectors, by local, state, and federal law enforcement. The attacks on the indigenous protectors included water cannons, tear gas, mace, and rubber bullets. At least one person was critically wounded. Also, how Standing Rock water protectors are using technology … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We conclude our week of broadcasts from Standing Rock. Today we’ll introduce you to 3 people who don’t usually enter the spotlight, but who’s fingerprints are all over this beautiful peace movement.
Today on Flashpoints we continue our week of on the ground broadcast coverage from Standing Rock. On the show today we’ll hear a rare extended interview with Tom Goldtooth. Goldtooth is executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and a key organizer at Standing Rock. And we speak with artist and activist Jean Roach who … Continued
Today on Flashpoints we continue our week of broadcasts from Standing Rock. We’ll cover a tense protest that took place in front of the federal building in downtown Bismark, as police did everything in their power to prevent it from taking place, including blocking off the main exits on the freeway that lead to the … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: We present the first of a series of broadcasts this week, from Standing Rock North Dakota. as Indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline continues to grow. Today we’ll hear an eye witness account of a cement truck driver who purposely drove his truck into a crowd of protectors and pistol whipped … Continued
Flashpoints – November 11, 2016
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: Riding the freedom bus, as students and young people all across America continue to protest Trump’s ascension to the White House. Also, a report back back and update from Standing Rock, as the Flashpoints team heads out to North Dakota for a week of programming from the frontlines of the pipeline resistance.