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KPFA - Flashpoints

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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.

3125 - A Nationwide Spree of Police Violence Against Genocide Protestors
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  • 3125 - A Nationwide Spree of Police Violence Against Genocide Protestors

    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.

    Thu, 02 May 2024 - 0min
  • 3124 - Flashpoints – May 1, 2024

    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 – May 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

    Wed, 01 May 2024 - 59min
  • 3123 - Flashpoints – April 30, 2024

    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.

    Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 59min
  • 3122 - Columbia University Students Risk It All For Palestine

    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.

    Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 59min
  • 3121 - Flashpoints – April 26, 2024

    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.

    Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 59min
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