Today on Flashpoints: The election crimes bulletin returns with Greg Palast. Then, the saber rattling continues against North Korea, even as the US carries out invasive war games in the south. Also, a Bay Area teacher dismissed because of her political views. And we celebrate Bob Dylan winning the Noble prize for literature.
Today on a Flashpoints: Haitians dying in large number as a result of
the recent hurricane and the devastating US policy toward the poverty stricken nation. We’ll feature a front line report from on the ground in Haiti. We’ll also talk in studio with Walter Riley of the Haiti
Emergency Relief Fund: And our series Letters on Earth, with poet on assignment, and roving activist, Aurora Levins Morales.
Aurora’s latest epistle from the center of the resistance at the
Dakota Access pipeline resistance
Today on Flashpoints: The profound ignorance of US foreign policy issues by US politicians that has lead us back to the doorstep of potential nuclear war. And we’ll present highlights from Monday’s Indigenous People’s Day Sunrise Celebration.
For Indigenous People’s Day, we present an encore broadcast of our recent interview with AIM co-founder, Bill Means, speaking out against the racist dual standard by which wannabe Regas assassin, John Hinkley Jr, is freed while Leonard Peltier remains behind bars for over 40 years. Then, we rebroadcast our recent interview with NDLON’s Pablo Alvarado, on a number of issues, including his debut CD.
Today on Flashpoints: Greg Palast returns as the state of Indiana launches a wide ranging probe into voter fruad, seizing documents and targeting various voter registration groups. Also, the story of Occupy Oakland depicted by Flashpoints senior producer, Kevin Pina. We’ll be joined by Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson and Iraq Vet Scott Olsen
Today on Flashpoints: We devote the first half of the show to Haiti and the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. The category 4 strom pummeled the island nation with at least 5 people killed. It also forced the cancellation of the upcoming elections scheduled for this Sunday, amid growing fears the Obama administration may militarize relief efforts there, as they did following the January 2010 earthquake with the announcement of the deployment of an aircraft carrier and 300 US marines. Then, we’ll feature a special report by Flashpoints senior producer, Miguel Gavilan Molina, with an extended portrait of Pablo Alvarado, called the Cesar Chavez of day laborers, and an accomplished musician who just released his first CD.
Today on Flashpoints: We broadcast to our national audience, a program we did this past Friday, September 30th with guest host, Kevin Pina. September 30th marked the 25th commemoration of the brutal coup in Haiti.
Today on Flashpoints: We present an encore broadcast of our interview with the Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees of the Peace And Freedom Party, Gloria La Riva and Dennis Banks
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