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Flashpoints Aug 22/21: Under fire in Balata; Alex Cockburn on McKinney; more
KPFA Flashpoints Radio: August 21, 2002
-Robert Knight news summary (5 min)
-Chilling audio clip from inside an occupied house under fire in Balata Refugee Camp. Interview with Joshua Brown of ISM (18 min)
-Replay of the famous March 25 Flashpoints interview with Cynthia McKinney (11 min)
-Alexander Cockburn and Jeff Blankford about McKinney's defeat by fundamentalist *Christians* and AIPAC. (21 min)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio: August 22, 2002
-Robert Knight; Palestinian journalists; high...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 12:32pm PDT
Portland Protest made CNN, abc.com
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/elec02.bush.protests/index.html...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 11:57am PDT
Pelosi in Chinatown 10am Sat - Tell her no more $ for Israel!
please come ready to ask her the difficult questions about what must be done to change US policy from support for war to support for justice and peace in the Middle East. ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 9:36am PDT
Iowa labor maps Election 2002 fight
WATERLOO, Iowa – The 46th convention of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, opened here Aug. 14 with a blistering attack on the policies of the Bush administration. It ended two days later with a plan of action aimed at electing worker-friendly candidates to Congress and the Iowa legislature, with a special emphasis on re-electing Sen. Tom Harkin....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 8:36am PDT
A Cuban cartoonist talks of his art and Cuba
Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero, known as Ares, is an internationally acclaimed cartoonist living in Havana. His drawings have won hundreds of awards in world cartooning and satire competitions....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 8:30am PDT
SHITTY LITTLE AMBASSADOR GOES HOME
SHITTY LITTLE AMBASSADOR GOES HOME...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 7:45am PDT
California Offers ILWU and AFL-CIO Leaders Opportunity to Halt Employer's Offensive
The California budget crisis and the offensive against the ILWU offers the union leadership a golden opportunity to mobilize workers and go on the offensive. Activists/Socialists must demand that they abandoned their failed policies of the past and change course if further defeats are to be avoided....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 6:17am PDT
Brazil Creates World's Largest Rainforest Park
Brazil Creates World's Largest Rainforest Park...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:54am PDT
About Irak
Padre Benjamin Web Site
http://www.benjaminforiraq.org/homeGB.htm...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:37am PDT
COLOMBIAN REBELS OFFER PEACE TALKS
Colombia's largest guerrilla organisation FARC says that it is willing to negotiate peace with new Colombian president Alvaro Uribe if he cracks down on the paramilitary death squads and withdraw government forces from two southern departments....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 4:35am PDT
Secret US Court Rebuffs Ashcroft, FBI Spy Measures
In an unprecedented move, the court that oversees spying releases ruling. Ruling indicates Ashcroft and FBI submitted false information to court in order to obtain warrants....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 3:10am PDT
4 thuosand families can be massacred in Brasil
4 thousand families in Osasco are fighting day by day to get what is guaranted to them by law, their right that is not only guaranted by the Brazilian Constitution but also by the Letter of Human Rights. Such rights as housing, food, heath and dignity....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 3:05am PDT
Campaign against Bechtel's fleecing of Bolivia (en + es)
La Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida junto a otras organizaciones han iniciado una campaña mundial en contra de la demanda de Becthel. Ahora necesitamos su ayuda....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 2:14am PDT
Bush's Secret Service, Police Attack Media Covering Protest
Reporters were targeted along with protestors with pepper spray in downtown Portland Thursday evening. The Portland police, operating with the Secret Service, pepper sprayed photographers, reporters, and television crews during a protest against Bush. Opposed to Bush's war fever for Iraq, and decrying the administration's latest move to exploit the terror of forest fires for his timber industry chums, citizens turned out in droves to defend the U.S. homeland's Constitution and forests, only t...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 1:06am PDT
The Christian Holocaust in Russia
The Prop-Masters
Perpetrators of the holocaust against Christian Russia transform themselves into "survivors" of a holocaust....
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 12:37am PDT
Lives of the Peace Activists in Occupied Palestine
One of many stories I receive from the I.S.M. (International Solidarity Movement) volunteers from around the world...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 12:02am PDT
The Zionist Lobby and American Foreign Policy
...it is hardly surprising to discover that the Jewish state and Zionists lobbies are fairly active behind the scenes. It all makes far more sense when you find out that America's current divorce from humanism is closely associated with Israeli interests. A brief study of the history of Israel will reveal that from its very early days Zionism specialised in tracing dark political motivations and interests in order to abuse them to the very limit. Zionism is a very singular political method ai...
Posted: Thu, Aug 22, 2002 11:24pm PDT