KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the show: International law scholar, Francis Boyle says the International Court of Justice is failing to stop the genocide in Gaza as it did in case of Bosnia that culminated in the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre. Also We’ll have a live report from the student anti-genocide encampment on the Campus of U.C. Berkeley, right down the block from KPFA Pacifica free speech radio The post Professor Francis Boyle on The Failure to Stop The Genocide in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Gaza on the brink, as the IDF ramps up its attacks and shuts down the Rafah Border. We’ll have a frontline update on Rafah and the west bank with Zeiad Abas of MECA.. Remembering Rachel Corrie, Runover and murdered 21 years ago by an israeli bulldozer as she stood against the Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Rafah The post Remembering Rachel Corrie appeared first on KPFA.

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Today on the Show: Israel’s answer to the cease fire proposal is to declare war on Rafah. We’ll feature a front line report with Zeiad Abbas from the Middle East Alliance: And We’ll have live reports from Student Encampments and actions at U.C. Berkeley, Sonoma State University, and George Washington University The post Israel’s Answer to The Cease Fire is To Invade Rafah appeared first on KPFA.

On Today’s Show: US Secretary of State in San Francisco, greeted by protesters with the mock blood of Palestinians. The East Bay City of Richmond, California takes a bold step to divest from companies that do business with the Israel apartheid State. And Nora Barrows Friedman talks to antigenocide students from coast to coast The post Antony Blinken Greeted by Protestors for Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat reporting on the genocidal policies that the US continues to weaponize and defend. We’ll be joined again by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of the Middle East Children Alliance for frontline reports on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also students recovering from police violence at UCLA. We’ll talk to one student activist to find out what’s next for the anti-genocide movement on UCLA. And we celebrate Cinco De mayo with a commentary from our Own Miguel Gavilan Molina: The post Update on The West Bank & The Gaza Strip appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We’ll speak to the president of the National Lawyers Guild, and to Chip Gibbons of Defending Rights & Dissent about the resurgence of police power in the face of the new national student movement against genocide in Palestine. Also we’ll have a report from UCLA in the aftermath of an attack by a violent pro-Israel contingent, and we’ll talk to the author of a new book Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom The post A Nationwide Spree of Police Violence Against Genocide Protestors appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We feature some recent report backs from Flashpoints contributing reporter, Daniel Rodriguez, on the floatilla to Gaza and the recent student protests against the genocide in Palestine. The post A Flashpoints Special: Daniel Rodriguez Featured Reports appeared first on KPFA.

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 The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America 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.

Today on the show: On the hundredth day of hell in Gaza, we’ll speak to the Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, about the cut off of US AID to the key organization assisting Palestinians in occupied Palestine. Also we’ll have another in our series of reports from special correspondent, Daniel Rodriguez, at the Gaza boat in Turkey, preparing to head to Gaza to break the israeli blockade. We’ll hear from law students for justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, in their second day camping in Sprowl Plaza, in resistance to the expanding US armed genocide in Gaza. And we’ll return to Columbia U and the streets of New York City for more coverage of the expanding global movement against Genocide in Gaza. The post 100 Day s of Hell in Gaza 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.

Today on the Show: Israeli settlers backed up by the IDF, and heavily armed private security forces step up their attacks on the West Bank; they are met by heavy resistance. Ziad Abas from Mecca is back to talk about the expanding destruction of his homeland: Also Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent is on her way to Gaza to break the Blockade on the Freedom Flotilla: and on the domestic front, it’s 420 day and pot is on the front burner in Washington D.C. The post Ziad Abas of MECA on The Expanding Destruction of His Homeland appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show, We’ll feature a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank from Ziad Abbas of MECA. Also a report from Turkey on the Gaza Flottila to break the Israeli embargo on Palestine. In Haiti, Is Jimmy Cherizier alias BBQ, a revolutionary as some folks are painting him or a ruthless gang leader manipulating public opinion to get amnesty? And poetry as an antidote to war and genocide The post Report Back On The Floatilla to Gaza 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.

Today on the Show: Pro Palestinian protestors shut down two main freeways and the Golden Gate Bridge during the AM rush hour in San Francisco. Also, Code Pink’s Cynthia Papermaster says NO to paying her taxes and would rather give the cash to KPFA than to the war machine. The post Flashpoints – April 15, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.