KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America, despite a violent police crack down on several campuses; we’ll feature live reports from New York City and Los Angles. Also Ziad Abbas is back for a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the west bank: And we’ll also have a rafa update on the threatened israeli invasion The post Flashpoints – April 30, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Columbia students defy a 2pm deadline to get lost or risk their academic future as students at the elite east coast University. Also Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on the White House/white wash correspondents’ dinner-protest. Medea and her partner, roughed up and tossed out of the Correspondents dinner for holding up a sign: ‘100 journalists killed in Gaza.’ The dinner was supposed to be about free speech. We’ll speak to Laurel Krause, the sister of Aliison Krause, one of 4 students gunned down by the national guard on Kent State Campus, during a protest against the Viet Nam War in 1970. We’ll also have an eye-witness to the campus killing The post Columbia University Students Risk It All For Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas is back for an update on the expanding attacks in the west bank and the expanding genocide in Gaza. Also an extended report back from the Gaza Boat to break the Israeli Embargo and and call attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And students and their teachers in Humbolt County Northern Cal on fire about genocIde in Gaza The post Flashpoints – April 26, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Flashpoints contributor, Maud Jean Michel, in The Bay Area to join Haitian forces with anti-genocide activists. Also, the big money driving the repression on private Ivy League campuses, like Colombia and NYU. Food Not Bombs questions the insanity of Biden’s war is peace budget. And from the Young Lords to the radical elders: organizing the people in the battle against genocide and for human right The post Flashpoints – April 25, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Will the Israeli genocidists invade Rafa in an act of desperation against Hamas’s sustained and effective resistance? Also we’ll feature a series of front line mini reports from Nora Barrows Friedman at the Electronic Intifada. Well also hear Protesters from A Jewish Voices For Peace and other anti-genocide groups speaking out near Senator Chuck Schumer’s house in Park Slope Brooklyn. And Randy Credico will join us for a live report from Columbia U at the edge of Harlem, where students continue to protest, despite many suspensions and arrests The post The Latest News and Updates From the Genocide in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – April 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: The students at UC Berkeley erect an anti-genocide encampment, right at the roots of the free speech movement. Also genocide Joe and the US rushing more weapons of mass destruction to Israel, but Unwra left high and dry. We’ll untangle the big lies About UNRWA The post Students Protesting Anti-Genocide in Gaza at UC Berkeley and NYU appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – April 19, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – April 18, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: A special report from the Gaza flotilla to break the Israeli embargo. Also, Flashpoints special correspondent, Sam Husseini, questions the state department on the IDF’s use of the sounds of children pleading for help to lure Palestinians into a deadly crossfire: also distinguished international law scholar, Francis Boyle, returns to discuss Nicaragua’s decision to take Germany to the World Court for Enabling Israel’s Genocide. And Immigrant Rights Organizations Pushing for Passage of the Pending “Registry Bill. We’ll be joined by attorney/activist Renee Saucedo to talk about the plans for long walks in support of crucial bill The post Flashpoints – April 17, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show, A tribute to the late poet and Founder of Poetry for the People, June Jordan: Also Ex-US military men heading to Gaza by Flotilla to break the deadly Israeli Blockade: And Teachers and Parents Fight Israeli Lobby Smears on the schools and teachers in Berkeley California: we’ll feature a segment from the Electronic Intifada with a lawyer and a middle school teacher about the struggle to teach the truth about Palestine, Hosted by Nora Barrows Friedman The post Flashpoints – April 16, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – April 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: A special showing of American Homeboy, a documentary that explores the complex origins of Pachuco and Cholo culture which sprouted from American soil in response to wartime sentiment, social alienation, and government discrimination only to become a cultural phenomenon. And, signa of our times on the bus stops of Washington DC. Instead of selling soap powder, they are calling for an end to the US Israeli genocide in Palestine The post Discussing The Documentary, American Homeboy appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: A Palestinian American law student at the U.C Berkeley accuses a professor of assaulting her during a backyard dinner held at the home of the school’s dean, Erwin Chemerinsky. Also, a brief history on the illegal and violent occupation of Palestine. And a landmark law suit on the safety and dangers of keeping Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor on line. opponents say its a major disaster waiting to happen. The post UC Berkeley Dean Caught On Camera Allegedly Assaulting Student For Protesting appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Biden says the US is considering dropping its witch-hunt prosecution of Julian Assange We’ll feature a special report, with Randy Credico. Also a frontline Gaza/west bank update, with MECA executive director, Ziad Abbas. And Richard Silverstein reports on Artificial Intelligence and the Israeli War Machine The post Is Biden Considering Dropping It’s Witch Hunt on Julian Assange? appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Is genocide Joe Biden getting ready to pull the plug on Israel’s expanding regional war before Bebe goes thumbs up for Trump? We’ll welcome back Raed Jarrar with Democracy for the Arab World Now. Also tightening the anti-abortion noose around Roe and pro choice, and a poet takes on the first hundred days of the Israeli Genocide The post Raed Jarrar on Biden Calling For a Ceasefire appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Protesting Germany’s support for the Israeli genocide against Gaza. And, we celebrate the work of our very own, Miguel Gavilan Molina. The post Celebrating the Work of Flashpoints’ Own, Miguel Gavilan Molina appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Biden to Bebe: slow down the slaughter, or we won’t fill your next weapons orders. Israeli military sacks a couple of officers on the World Food kill blame game. Also, automated war in the Gaza strip, twenty seconds to massacre. And Deconstructing War Landia with Arun Gupta, our weekly column covering what the media misses, misunderstands, or suppresses when covering the wars and plunder of Exceptional America The post Deconstructing Warlandia with Arun Grupa appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Nora Barrows Friedman on the Destruction of Al Shifa Hospital and related Genocidal acts by the Israeli Military. Also, violent gangs still dominate the streets of Haiti We’ll feature a frontline update with Pierre Labossier. And teachers, community groups, and farmworkers file a lawsuit challenging toxic pesticide approvals near public schools The post Flashpoints – April 4, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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. The post Flashpoints – April 3, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.