Flashpoints Radio Aug 20: Barbara Lubin in Hebron; Prison Madness: DC lawsuit

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Monday, Aug 20, 2001 - Start Audio
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein Palestinians begging the U.N. for international monitors/ peacekeepers to protect them from Israel.. vetoed by the U.S. for Israel.. Now Dennis: w Barbara Lubin in Hebron: two sectors F1 and F2, F1 is open, F2 under curfew.. 300 Jewish settlers live in area F1, 200,000 Palestinians live in F2.. A group of armed settlers here have decided to take a piece of Palestinian land, including a Palestinian family\'s small garden and orchard, and make a new settlement.. Israeli soldiers are protecting the settlers pitching tents.. a \"legal\" confiscation of Palestinian land.. What would happen if the reverse occurred? If a group of armed Palestinians moved onto Jewish occupied land and tried to take it over? (discussion..) Barbara: the settlers have prayer shawls.. the Palestinian family who owns the land peeping out the window of their nearby house.. Barbara: most of the settlers are very young.. putting stones around their tents.. the message, this land is ours now.. Barbara: 25 soldiers, heavily armed.. settlers and soldiers laying around all over this Palestinian family\'s front yard.. Barbara talks with the settlers on air.. \"Arab Lover\" she is called.. the family upstairs is petrified.. 1000\'s of tanks around Bethlehem, around Hebron.. all the Arabs here are expecting (invasion).. 2-3 young boys given shovels.. digging up this family\'s garden.. Barbara: here people in prayer shawls.. doing something like this.. hard to imagine.. to put your children in harm\'s way like this.. to do an evil thing.. what are they teaching these children?.. now a huge tent up.. now they\'re pulling down all the grapes and eating them.. Dennis: now they\'re stealing the fruits of the Palestinians\' labor protected by soldiers.. Barbara: about the Palestinians in Hebron who are locked in their homes 24-7, allowed out just 2 hours a week.. no way to get food, water, medicine.. what is this?.. 3,000 soldiers.. guarding 300 settlers
-17:00 Dennis interviews Noam, spokesman for the settlers.. (8 minutes).. differing perspectives on the Origin of the Palestine- Israel Conflict and the 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron.. compare this World Zionist Organization page with this Middle East Times page.. also check: UK Guardian: War of Words; see too: \'What I Saw in Hebron\' and this Arab news page. This is not an easy knot to untie.
-25:00 Noelle with Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness : about the cruel and inhumane environment in modern prisons.. sensory deprivation.. people put in solitary confinement for months or years.. in \'cold storage\'.. they become pychotic.. the only way out: snitch, parole, or die.. about the mental condition of people released from these hell-holes.. very angry.. given $50 dollars and a bus ticket.. (don\'t be at the end of that bus line).. a major tragedy.. THE PUBLIC MUST PAY ATTENTION TO THESE HORRORS.. Rape of male prisoners is used by officers to control prisoners.. drugs come into prisons mainly through the guards.. (discussion).. the drug trade in prisons \"feeds\" vulnerable prisoners to the drug lords.. about Eddie Dillard, raped for three days.. about women\'s prisons.. women with past abuse are singled out by guards and raped.. for women, the threat of retaliation is worse than being raped.. in Michigan.. 8 male correctional officers convicted of rape
-40:00 Noelle Hanrahan: about the IMF World Bank meeting in Washington DC end of September.. police plan to seal off 40 square blocks with chain link fencing to create a huge protest-free zone.. w Lisa and Carl of Partnership for Civil Justice.. about the free-speech lawsuit filed today against the police plan.. concrete evidence that \'agents provocator\' were \'working\' Bush\'s inaugural.. about the use of tear gas and other newly developed chemical weapons against peaceful protestors.. about the \'pink bloc\' and new forms of organizing.. more interesting now.. many groups moving forward with many different events.. police plan to close off Lafeyette Park.. this closure a precedent perhaps for closing off protest of any type anywhere.. lawsuit against the police plan.. no march permits.. CALLING FOR: MASS MOBILIZATION.. issues: immigrant rights, workers rights, union rights, sweatshop issues.. IMF debt cancellization.. calendar.. websites: www.globalizethis.org and www.abolishthebank.org D.C. police spending $38 million dollars on security.. whipping up a fear frenzy.. about the plethora of new \"non-lethal\" weapons being deployed by police against anti-globalization protestors.. tear gas guns.. pepper spray guns.. laser weapons
-54:30 End today\'s show.. today\'s review by john lionheart

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