KPFA Flashpoints Radio, June 7, 2001

Thursday, June 7, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Noelle Hanrahan: Donald Miller, principal of Oakland\'s Castlemont High, overrules the student choice for commencement speaker, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Similar situation at Occidental College. Interview w/ Veneya Camp, Castlemont student and activist with Youth Against Community Injustice (YACI). \"Police cause problems in the community... Youth are being criminalized by the educational system... Mumia (with his dignified resistance) would be a great role model.\" Commentary by Brenda Payton of the Oakland Tribune. Castlemont principal prefers \"Pastor Bob\"
-14:40 music break
-15:20 Interview w/ former US political prisoner, Linda Evans, of SDS and the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, spent 15 years in jail for political activity. She says there are many political prisoners in US jails. About political prisoner Fred Hampton, Jr.
-23:30 Yun Suh: Activist Marilyn Buck, has been in prison for 17 years. There is a reading from a Marilyn Buck book of poetry, Rescue the Word, this Friday by three Asian women poets at Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Str., San Francisco. Interviews with poets Meryle Woo and Nellie Wong of Freedom Socialist Party. The most vile conditions exist behind prison bars, but poetry allows political prisoners to access beauty and express truth. A poem about Palestinian women prisoners.
-48:00 Penny Rosenwasser of Women for a Just Peace and Middle East Childrens Alliance talks about tomorrow\'s worldwide Women In Black protest against the 34 year illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Calm dignified women, and men (men are invited this time), dressed in black will stand in silent vigil at Montgomery and Market in San Francisco 5:00-6:30PM - more info: 510-434-1304. The women in Israel and Palestine, particularly the Arab women, are taking great risks to attend, to participate in this vigil. Women in Black are standing to keep the Arab women\'s olive trees and homes from being destroyed. Please show your support. Come tomorrow. global schedule
-54:20 Announcements
-56:00 End today\'s show

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