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9/9SF Protest Of Lantos&Jewish National Fund
The Israeli Jewish National Fund will he honoring Congressman Tom Lantos on Sept. Anti-aparthied activists will be picketing for the JNF's racist discrimination clause....
Posted: Sat, Sep 1, 2001 12:43am PDT
Israel assassinates PFLP general secretary
In a severe escalation of the occupation, Israeli helicopter gunships killed Abu Ali Mustafa, the 63 year old leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2001 1:21pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 30: Palestine Update; Trafficking in Women; New Hope Mumia
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 30, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Activist Penny Rossenwasser just returned from Palestine, recounts her protests in West Bank and East Jersulem (25 min)
- About the rise in the international trafficking of women (16 min)
- New affidavit in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, stenographer overhears judge say: "Yeah, and I'm gonna help 'em fry the nigger"(9 min)...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2001 11:06pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 29: Eyewitnesses in Beit Jalla; Fujimori; Amy WINS one!
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 29, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Phone interview with founder of the International Solidarity Movement, Neta Golan, attempting food deliveries in Israeli occupied Beit Jalla (19 min)
- Phone interview with Bryan Wood, human shield in Beit Jalla (13 min)
- Peru wants to extradite Fujimori (9 min)
- Interview w Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! - Pacifica board just voted 6-5 to demand Bessie Wash put Amy and crew back on air (13 min)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2001 8:05pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 28: Human Shield in Beit Jalla; Durban SA, Norman Solomon
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 28, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Phone interview with 'human sheild', Bryan Wood, from a crowded basement bomb shelter in Beit Jalla (19 min)
- Barbara Lubin at the UN Conference of Racism in Durban, South Africa. (14 min)
- Norman Solomon on the media's obeidient twisting of language to accomodate the Israeli propoganda machine (14 min)
- Democracy Now! Pacifica Crisis update (6 min)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2001 8:08am PDT
Online Petition to Defend Jonathan Rapoport, 24 August 01
Jonathan Rapoport remains stranded in "Area A" Palestine. He has been granted temporary asylum by the Palestinian National Authority, but he is unable to travel onward to a third country because of the boarder closures by the IDF. We believe, based on our own expert knowledge of the region, that if he is captured by the Israel authorities, he will be imprisoned, beaten, tortured and possibly killed by the police....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 1:48pm PDT
Asbestos, Asthma, and Your Rattling Last Breaths
This affords a more complete overall view of the "Moronic Asbestos Modus", which I have also addressed in "Chemical Modus II" and the postscript to "Israel, A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken"....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 12:23pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 23: Palestinians fly kites; Medea on CA energy; Amy Update
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 23, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Israel attacks kites that have the colors of the Palestinian flag (20 min)
- Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange and Danny Kennedy of Greenpeace about CA Gov Davis bailout of So Cal Edison (14 min)
- Performance art marathon in front of the SF Italian consulate tonight (7 min)
- Interview w Amy Goodman and Chris Abrams: Union AFTRA now supports AMY!! (12 min)...
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 9:36pm PDT
Israel Indymedia Reporter Targeted, Escapes to Palestinian Territory
I have fled into Palestinian controlled “Area A” after being involuntarily inducted into the Israeli military. I fled because I was involuntarily drafted into the army and have been tortured by Israeli security service agents....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 4:15pm PDT
Israel, A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken
This is how Israel came to be in the land of the north....
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2001 7:59am PDT
Palestinians View Israeli Occupation of East Jerusalem's Orient House...
Hussein Ibish, of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, discusses the significance of the Israeli takeover of Orient House and the consequences for those working to implement a cease-fire....
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2001 5:48am PDT
Flashpoints Radio, Aug 13: Live from citizens in West Bank city of Jenin
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Aug 13: Live phone calls from citizens in West Bank city of Jenin under heavy Israeli attack, interviews also w Barbara Lubin, Phyllis Bennis, and Sahib Rasheed, eyewitness to Orient House protests this weekend. (link to audio in full story text below)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2001 9:35pm PDT
Terry Greenblatt of leading Israeli women's peace group, Bat Shalom, speaks
Terry Greenblatt of leading Israel women's peace group, Bat Shalom, speaks out at a recent Jewish Film Festival in San Francisco Bay Area.. KPFA Flashpoints Radio.. (16 min)...
Posted: Sun, Aug 12, 2001 1:40am PDT
Bay Area Congressman Accused of Racism
Rep. Tom Lantos, a militant supporter of Israeli nationalism in the Middle East, even though, he claims to be an American, smears all Arabs through his remarks....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2001 4:23pm PDT
Palestinians 580- Israelis 130
Palestinians and Israelis are engaged in fierce gun battles across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Suicide bombers are killing civilians and children. Israeli troops have killed children. Intentional or
not, innocent people on both sides are being killed....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2001 6:19pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio July 31: Israel kills, Goldblatt speaks, US Dept of Peace?
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 31, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Israel kills over a dozen Palestinians in the last 24 hours, doesn't mind a bit (24 min)
- Terry Greenblatt of Bat Shalom speaks from a Jewish Film Festival (15 min)
- US House representative Dennis J. Kucinich, and his proposal for a US Department of Peace (17 min)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2001 3:45am PDT
Palestinian Labor Activist Bay Area Tour
Assaf Advi, National Coordinator of the Workers Advice Center in Israel will visit the bay area and report to working people the conditions of Palestinian and Asian workers in Israel...
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 5:35pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio July 18, 2001: Israel STOP; Kissinger CAUTION; Tooth Fairy GO!
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 18, 2001: (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Israel prepares to invade Palestine.. again.. (11 min)
- Bernstein Interview w Christopher Hitchins, author of the "Trial of Henry Kissinger" (35 min)
- Tooth Fairy Project update (6 min)
- SF Events: HK Protest tomorrow, labor video screening (2 min)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 18, 2001 7:38pm PDT
Palestinian Labor Activist To Visit SF
Assaf Advi, Nat Coordinator of the Workers Advice Center in Israel will be at a SF Labor Breakfast on July 30....
Posted: Sat, Jul 14, 2001 7:27am PDT
International Action Center call for protest at Bohemian Grove Saturday July 14
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 12, 2001: (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Interview w human rights lawyer from Belfast. (10 min)
- Robert Knight, of WBIX (WBIA radio in exile) on Vieques (7 min)
- Middle East Childrens Alliance reports live from Palestine (9 min)
- GWBush's medicare drug discount scam (13 min)
- Bohemian Grove protest this Saturday w the International Action Center. (13 min)...
Posted: Fri, Jul 13, 2001 12:20am PDT