FLASHPOINTS show

FLASHPOINTS

Summary: Flashpoints is an award-winning daily investigative newsmagazine broadcast on the national Pacifica Radio network. Based out of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Broadcast Monday through Friday live at 5pm PST.

Podcasts:

 Wednesday April 25th 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

99% Activists Disrupt the GE Shareholders meeting in Detroit: We have a report on exactly what happened inside the meeting: Also Occupy Wall Student Protestors take to the streets to proetest Student loan debt which hit the one trillion dollar mark today: And We’ll get an update on what the Middle East Children’s Alliance is up to in Palestine. LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Tuesday April 24th 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Today on Flashpoints, well known actors and activists called for a major protest in Washington DC to occupy the Justice Department. The protest is both a call to free Mumia Abu Jamal and to call attention to the criminal and racist injustice system. We’ll feature an in-depth background on the case and status regarding Mumia Abu-Jamal as well as the various aspects of the continuing injustices handed out by the system. Also 2,000 students take to the streets in a pledge not to do business with Bank of America. And we’ll have an update on the case of KPFA producer and contributor Jose Alegren Gutiérrez. LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Thursday April 19 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Today on Flashpoints: We continue our series on the Two-year anniversary of BP’s deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf: Greg Palast will join us to talk about BP’s sorted history of killing and lying about it: Also Media Matters joins us to talk about how the corporate press is fanning the flames for another war in the Middle East: we continue our drumbeat reporting on the Foreclosure Pandemic with C.J. Holmes: And an interview with Marcel Khalife, one of the Arab world’s most revered cultural icons. LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Tuesday April 10 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Today on Flashpoints, two more migrants from Mexico ambushed and murdered at the US Mexico border outside of Tucson. Also one leading Israeli newspaper is reporting that Israel will attack Iran right before the US presidential election later this year. Also we’ll have an update on the US military program for full dominance in space. And we’ll also have an update on continuing racist police violence against the black community in New Orleans. LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Monday March 19 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Today on a Special Edition Flashpoints, We devote the entire show to The Libros Traficante Caravan to Break the Book Ban: We Speak to the main organizer about what it felt like to arrive with over a thousand banned books arrives in Tucson and what comes next: Also we’ll hear an inpassioned speech by banned poet, Lorna De Cervantes, who greeted and spoke to the the Caravan along the way: And we’ll expand the discussion on the Tucson ban about the roll the larger progressive community should be playing, with Rudolfo Acuna, whose book, occupied America was the first to be banned. LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Wednesday February 22 2012 | File Type: audio/x-mpegurl | Duration: Unknown

Assemblyman V. Manuel Perez Today on Flashpoints: A major Victory for Day Laborers at the Supreme Court: We’ll be joined by Pablo Alavarado, National Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network:Also in Sacramento, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka throws his support behind the Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights: We’ll speak to the Bill’s co-author, CA. Assemblyman, V. Manuel Perez and hear sounds from today’s press conference with co-author Tom Aminano and others:And we will continue playing excerpts of recent Whistle Blower’s Conference in support of Bradley Manning.LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Wednesday February 15 2012 | File Type: audio/x-mpegurl | Duration: Unknown

Today on Flashpoints we’ll have a special report on the fire in Honduras that killed over 300 prisoners early Wednesday morning. Also we’ll be joined by Michael Kroll, a powerful anti-death penalty activist on a new film Procedure 769: Witnesses to an Execution. And we’ll feature the documentary The Shock Doctrine, that’s a visualization of the work of Naomi Klein.LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Wednesday February 8 2012 | File Type: audio/x-mpegurl | Duration: Unknown

Today on Flashpoints, an intimate interview by Kevin Pina of our very own Dennis Bernstein on his newly-published book of poetry, Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom.LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Wednesday February 1 2012 | File Type: audio/x-mpegurl | Duration: Unknown

Catherine Austin Fitts Today on Flashpoints: Catherine Austin Fitts returns for another segment of Community Business: We’ll look at where the economy is, and what’s happening on the housing and foreclosure front. And Catherine will join us for the next edition of our series on Foreclosure and how to fight back with Real Estate Broker, C.J. Holms.LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

 Wednesday January 25 2012 | File Type: audio/x-mpegurl | Duration: Unknown

Vijay Prashad Today on Flashpoints: Obama’s state of dis union: some troubling passages for progressives: We’ll be joined for a critque of the Speech by Progressive Magazine Editor, Matt Rothchild:Also Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, talks about who the real pirates are: And Fighting Back against Foreclosure: we’ll begin a series of Foreclosure On-air clinics and how you can make your neighborhood a foreclosure free zone.LISTEN ONLINE:Download this clipPlay this clip in your Computer’s media player

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