Dissertation by Arundhati Roy Oct 22, 2001, : Indybay

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Monday, Oct 22, 2001 - Start Audio <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/a.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=25 WIDTH=52 ALT="for audio FAQ, click here"> -00:00<IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/dennis.jpg" align=left hspace=4 BORDER=1 HEIGHT=88 WIDTH=66 ALT="Dennis Bernstein photo"> Dennis Bernstein w

Special Flashpoints correspondent, Nor Odeh, from Ramallah in the West Bank.. Nor Odeh: all attention on Bethlehem today, under heavy Israeli attack.. <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/paradise2.jpg" align=right hspace=4 BORDER=1 HEIGHT=108 WIDTH=77 ALT="Paradise Hotel in happier days"> French (Holy Family) Hospital (link2) (link3) (link4) hit by Israeli fire, evacuated.. the Paradise Hotel is now on fire due to Israeli shelling (map).. the Church of the Nativity (link2) hit on Sunday.. while people were praying in the church, the church <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/nativity.jpg" align=left vspace=4 hspace=4 BORDER=1 HEIGHT=118 WIDTH=149 ALT="Church of the Nativity in Bethehem"> was hit by machine gun fire, church-goers sent running.. self-imposed curfew, everybody staying at home.. Johnny, a 19-year old altar boy shot and killed by a sniper in front of the church.. wanted to be a priest.. the entire family in shock.. ... In Jenin, an eighteen-year old girl shot by a sniper while she was picking olives.. other men assassinated elsewhere in the West Bank and Gaza.. every city in the West Bank, great fear, praying for an international response to put in observers at the least.. to witness the truth of the Israel invasion.
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Dennis w Indian novelist, Arundhati Roy, author of London Times number 1 bestseller,
God of Small Things and Power Politics.. Algebra of Infinite Justice.. today published in the UK Guardian, her latest essay, titled War is Peace (Brutality smeared in peanut butter).. Arundhati Roy reads her essay War is Peace for Flashpoints.. excerpts:.. since the end of WWII the U.S. has made war on China, Korea, Indonesia, Cuba, Belgian Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Granada, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Sudan, Yugoslavia.. now Afghanistan.. .. with all due respect to president Bush, the people of the world do not have to choose between Taliban and president Bush.. and a half million people lost their lives in the war against the Soviets, and the ensuing civil war.. Afghanistan was reduced to rubble, now being reduced to dust.. about laughter in the Pentagon briefing room.. the Northern Alliance track record is not that much difference from the Taliban.. all warlords.. Taliban just changing uniforms.. .. about the rudeness of Rudi Gulianni.. for every hundred innocent people killed there is a good chance of several more terrorists.. once violence is accepted as a legitimate political instrument.. .. will drive everyone crazy.. all kinds of.. unloosed.. STOP THE WAR NOW.. George Bush recently boasted, 'When I fire a $2M missile, it will not be to hit a $10 empty tent, and a camel in the butt'.. about the Carlyle Group, run by Bush family cronies.. about UNICAL trying to get the Taliban to let them run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan.. at the time the Taliban mistreatment of women was not so well known.. in America, the Oil Industry..
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 -37:15 <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/aurora.jpg" align=right BORDER=1 HEIGHT=108 WIDTH=87 ALT="Aurora Levins Morales"> now w New York poet, Aurora Levins Morales (link2), who reads a short poem that Barbara Lubin asked her to write, Frightened Children: 'smiling coldly the mouthpieces of generals explain.. you have to expect some collateral damage.. the children who have not yet died, they pee on themselves at every loud sound.. they are afraid of the sky.. Afghani children do not want peanut butter.. they want their mother singing as she makes bread, they want the sky..
 -40:20 Noelle Hanrahan, with Pacifica Watch.. Pacifica pays half the KPFA electric bill.. an investigation by the Pacifica Campaign shows.. As Pacifica Radio's embattled leadership continues to pay a bevy of high priced lawyers, public relations firms, and security companies to maintain their tenuous grip on power, basic bills crucial for operations at the five-station network are not being paid. Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley now has 125 unpaid and overdue bills totaling more than $100,000.. now to developments in New York, Dred Scott, a production engineer of 20 years fired this morning.. Interview w him, about how, why he was fired this morning.. .. for more info see savepacifica.net or call the Pacifica Campaign @ 800-797-2229 -49:00 End today's show.. today's review by john lionheart<hr>

Sunday, October 21, 2001 - Start Audio <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/a.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=25 WIDTH=52 ALT="for audio FAQ, click here"> <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/lee2.gif" align=left vspace=4 hspace=4 BORDER=0 HEIGHT=99 WIDTH=86 ALT="Barbara Lee"> Two audio captures from 10/21 Sundays KPFA Broadcast of the Community Gathering to Appreciate Barbara Lee at Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland. special thanks to S. Triparthi -00:00 Start first audio segment (40 min).. Davey D with Congresswoman Barbara Lee.. How could this have happened? don't we have alarms? is this a breakdown in the intelligence community? Barbara: we have to find a balance.. we have to insist on a fair and thorough investigation.. Davey: If I'm a part of an anti-war group will I be investigated? Barbara: we have to watch this, this is very serious.. we have to be careful as we move forward.. -3:00 Announcements: 3500 people here.. a lot of people have come out.. a multicultural tone here.. here we are, in Oakland, a multicultural community coming out to support Barbara Lee.. the peace movement has been a broad movement.. about Ken Saurawewa in the bay area.. -06:00 announcements from the podium.. about the Berkeley City Council resolution.. Nancy Nadell: about the misinformation coming from the media.. KPFA.. back to stage where Davey D is introducing Danny Glover and Barbara Lee.. -08:40 standing applause.. for Barbara Lee.. ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States, Barbara Lee.. (introduction) Barbara: speaks -18:00 <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/alice.jpg" align=left vspace=4 hspace=4 BORDER=0 HEIGHT=108 WIDTH=94 ALT="Alice Walker"> Alice Walker: when I heard this, I could hear in Barbara's voice what it cost her.. we are truly her brothers and sisters.. -28:50 Poem: Winning
 -34:00 Keith Carson: introducing Barbara Lee.. Barbara Lee: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.. thank you Nancy Nadell, Alice Walker, Davey D, Keith Carson, thank you.. thank you for providing the freedom.. to say: as we respond no more innocent lifes are lost.. let's pray our young people in the armed services are safe.. thank you for being patriotic Americans.. thank you, thank you.. Let us not become the evil that we deplore. thank you for being the most progressive district in America, thank you!!..
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 start second audio segment (31 min)
 -00:00 (joined in progress) Kelly Campbell, sister-in-law of Craig Amundson, who died in the Pentagon attack.. the family is mourning their loss, and praising Barbara Lee..
 -04:00 announcements
 -08:00 Bopali (sp?), song: How Can We Have Peace In The Middle East? (Where is the Love?)
 -12:00 Dr. Hatim Bazeim (sp?) of the Oakland Islamic Society.. the most important verse in the Koran: verily the best among you is the one who is the most virtuous... reflects profoundly the vision of Barbara Lee, that all humans are from one source.. the loss of a life in the U.S. should sadden us, but equally we should feel that loss when it takes place in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Central America, in Africa... these crazy attacks in New York.. how do we now countenance bombs falling on others.. let us bring these people to justice.. as the only superpower.. power calls upon us to look from a higher place.. power could damage many people, but also could bring about an improvement in the human condition.. about the clash of civilizations.. no such thing.. all humans want to be free.. innocent until proven guilty is an Islamic teaching to the west.. about Barbara Lee.. she was the only voice of courage to say let's stop, let's think.. she is the bravest, she is the patriot and we need to stand behind here.. in the election, we need to.. take a vow, to support Barbara Lee.. we stand for justice, and will support those whose echo those views.. -19:00
Announcements: Dr Baseam (sp?) speaking Nov 4 SF Civic Center, Islam in the Balance.. more events at the California Peace Action, Global Exchange.. Nov 1 Campus Chapel Mills College Thursday Nov 1, 7pm RAWA.. Sat Oct 27, March and Rally 1PM, teaching against war.. Black Radical Congress Sunday 5pm, Humanist Hall 510-652-6263..
 -22:10 <IMG SRC="http://www.Flashpoints.net/images/maxine.jpg" align=left BORDER=1 HEIGHT=108 WIDTH=77 ALT="Maxine Hong Kingston"> Maxine Hong Kingston (link2), author of Woman Warrior, and China Men. about the Oakland Fire.. about trying to save the Book of Peace.. the Book of Peace was burnt.. about Barbara Lee's courage
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today's review by john lionheart<hr>

Dissertation by Arundhati Roy Oct 22, 2001,

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