Flashpoints Radio: Nine Kick-Ass Activists Arrested in Super Jail Protest

Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Noelle Hanrahan: Parliment of Indonesia votes to remove President Abdurrahman Wahid and replace him with vice-president Megawati (Indonesian news agency).. interviews w retired Professor Ben Anderson of Cornell University, and Jana Mason of the US Committee on Refugees
-10:40 Noelle Hanrahan: The crimes of the military in East Timor are enormous.. Colin Powell \"eager to relate\" to the military..
-12:20 Military crimes in Ache.. 1.2 million internal refugees in Indonesia.. a major humanitarian crisis..
-17:40 Noelle: Sukarta killed up to a million and a half people.. US provided covert aid to Indonesia
-19:30 Yun Suh: w Gay MacDougall of International Human Rights Law Group: about the UN Conference on Racism and Zenophobia meeting in South Africa.. the US threatens to boycott the conference if reparations for slavery (Mark Twain), and Zionism equals racism were included in the agenda..
-25:00 Yun Suh: w Gay MacDougall: South Africa leading the way, showing that.. a painful process looking at the past.. for justice.. to stop abuses from happening in the future.. apartheid.. this conference is important to the United States.. has one of the most obnoxious racial histories in the world.. i can\'t believe how the media is uninformed about the issue.. the coverage has focused on the explosive contentious issues.. not the positive
-34:20 Noelle Hanrahan: Update on Pacifica crisis.. the board has spared no expense to gut the network.. great corporate forces enlisted to crush small free speech radio.. w KPFA host Larry Bensky and Barbara Lubin of Friends of Free Speech Radio.. Pacifica reportedly has fired Epstein, Becker and Green, and hired high-powered law firm Williams and Connolly, one of the biggest \'juice\' firms in Washington.. their attorney, Gregory Craig, one of Clinton\'s defenders.. quite a liberal record.. associated w Ted Kennedy, defended his nephew on rape charges.. well connected, very powerful.. no Pacifica financial statements in months..
-40:10 Barbara Lubin says "come protest Ken Ford and his National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) tomorrow 9:30-11:00 Moscone Center, Howard Str. between 3rd and 4th Streets, SF.. NAHB is anti-environmental, anti-free speech, anti-disability.. I\'m excited about the youth"
-43:20 Noelle brings in Mike Melina of Let\'s Get Free and Attorney Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.. about the demonstration today at the Oakland Building protesting the proposed Alameda Country super-jail.. the first sit-in aginst the incarceration industry.. KPFA was there.. \'that is what liberation radio is supposed to do\'.. what we\'re seeing here is an escalation against people, also an escalation in resistance.. the mainstream media is terrified this will spread.. this is just the beginning.. the incredible role of KPFA.. free hip-hop, spoken word show, Saturday noon at Frank Ogawa plaza Oakland City Center.. the old liberal people, they\'re the ones trying to choke KPFA.. a new alignment of forces.. we need a voice, and right now that voice is KPFA.. if they come at KPFA, they\'re gonna have to deal with the youth
-52:00 Bensky: how you can help: see http://www.SavePacific.net and please contribute
-54:00 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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