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Flashpoints Radio Sept 12: Bush at UN; Israel in Tulkarm: Kucinich in Bay Area
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Thursday, Sept 12, 2002
-Robert Knight: Bush lectures the UN (4 min)
-Israel invades Tuldarm, interview with ISM member there (3 min)
-Phyllis Bennis on Bush and Iraq (14 min)
-Professor Fancis Boyle on Bush and Iraq (4 min)
-Congressman Dennis Kucinich on banning weapons in space (9 min)
-Berkeley City Council passes a resolution to ban weapons in space, interview w resolution sponsor, Dona Spring (9 min)
-Youth Radio (4 min)...
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 8:49pm PDT
No New War Against Iraq!
Momentum is building for the mass march this Saturday to say no to the Bush Administration's war designs on Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Sep 10, 2002 11:56am PDT
Flashpoints Sept 9: more DEA raid on WAMM; NYC theater; K Kelly+ B Lubin to Iraq
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Sept 9, 2002 (audio link/s in full story text below)
-Robert Knight and the Knight Report, Iraq has psychedelics of mass destruction?
-Update on last week's DEA raid on a Santa Cruz medical marijuana co-op
-Dancing for Your Life, Immigrant Theater in NYC
-Kathy Kelly and Barbara Lubin ready to go to Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Sep 9, 2002 10:15pm PDT
Iraq, food, war and sanctions - A talk (video/x-pn-realvideo 26.7MB)
Iraq, food, war and sanctions - A talk...
Posted: Sat, Sep 7, 2002 6:08am PDT
US Should Threaten War on Israel, Not Iraq!
While the US President and his supporters are trying hard to justify a war against Iraq, they are also trying to divert our attention from what should be the real target : Israel, the fourth largest military in the world and the proud owner of a nuclear bomb....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 7:52am PDT
Breaking News: 100 jets join attack on Iraq
About 100 American and British aircraft took part in an attack on Iraq's major western air defence installation yesterday in the biggest single operation over the country for four years....
Posted: Fri, Sep 6, 2002 2:02am PDT
A Decade of Terrorism Against Iraqi Civilians
A decade of state-sponsored terrorism by the United States in the form of sanctions and bombings has caused over a million deaths in Iraq. Now, you are told to forget your money problems and support a long and costly escalation of these murderous policies. Obey Fuhrer Bush?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 5, 2002 1:41am PDT
In the Event of War, Trash Downtown!
This is a poster that appeared in San Francisco when Clinton was threatening Iraq in 1999. To date, no one knows who put these up. There are more class war posters from San Francisco at the URL below....
Posted: Thu, Sep 5, 2002 1:07am PDT
Mandela forced to talk to Bush's father about his son's misbehavior
Nelson Mandela said Monday that he is "appalled" by U.S. threats to attack Iraq and warned that Washington is "introducing chaos in international affairs." He said he had spoken with President Bush's father and Secretary of State Colin Powell....
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2002 8:08pm PDT
No War On Iraq video (video/x-pn-realvideo 456.7KB)
Watch the video - 1min 30 secs. Protestors hung a banner outside Downing St, the home of Tony Blair, saying No War on Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2002 8:59am PDT
Who is Dennis Kucinich and why will he be in Berkeley?
He's a 'good' dem - chair of the progressive caucus and instrumental in the creation of the Office of Peace with Barbara Lee - and will be in Berkeley to talk and answer questions.
He needs the hard questions to be put to him, but what are they? Post them here. Then come and see him, and ask them yourself. He's 'spiritual,' and has given a speech called "A Prayer for America,' (ugh!) but it's actually pretty interesting to read . . . is at the WSSD in South Africa, called for Congres...
Posted: Sat, Aug 31, 2002 6:19pm PDT
Opposition grows to war with Iraq
Growing opposition to the Bush administration’s planned attack on Iraq, even from prominent right-wing Republicans, provides a “window of opportunity” to prevent such a war, Kathy Kelly, coordinator of Voices in the Wilderness, a humanitarian group working to end economic sanctions against Iraq, told the World....
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2002 8:00am PDT
Moveon.org Iraq Action at Boxer's Office - Wednesday noon, hundreds expected
Lots of middle class dems against war in Iraq will converge at and outside Boxer's office Wednesday at noon. Looks like it might be between 200 - 400 people. Might be a good opportunity for outreach and networking, since they don't ask for it to be a 'protest,' just a show of numbers and anti-war support. Apparently there'll be a mic though . . ....
Posted: Tue, Aug 27, 2002 5:01pm PDT
More Bush in Stockton(3) (video/x-pn-realvideo 18.8MB)
Six minute video of more speakers from the protest in Stockon on 8/23/02. These speak to the ILWU struggle, the illegitemancy of Bush, and stopping the war against Iraq before it begins....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2002 8:59pm PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 23: Interviews with protestors in Oregon, CA; Scott Ritter
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 23, 2002
-Interviews with Sarah Charlesworth, Green Party anti-Bush protestor in Portland and Medea Benjamin, head of Global Exchange, arrested in Stockton (18 min)
-Dennis Bernstein interview w Scott Ritter, former chief UNSCOM weapons inspector in Iraq (25 min)...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 7:49pm PDT
Bush's Secret Service, Police Attack Media Covering Protest
Reporters were targeted along with protestors with pepper spray in downtown Portland Thursday evening. The Portland police, operating with the Secret Service, pepper sprayed photographers, reporters, and television crews during a protest against Bush. Opposed to Bush's war fever for Iraq, and decrying the administration's latest move to exploit the terror of forest fires for his timber industry chums, citizens turned out in droves to defend the U.S. homeland's Constitution and forests, only t...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2002 1:06am PDT
Bush going to be in Stockton on Saturday!!!8/24
Oppose Bush and the Capitalist War machine!!! Stand with others as we tell Bush to get out of Afganistan, Iraq, Columbia, and Vieques. No Blood for Oil!!!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 11:27am PDT
U.S. Aided Iraq despite use of gas
The NYTimes points out as newly discovered 'news' that the U.S. was allied with Iraq and actively supported them militarily during the Iran/Iraq war when Saddam Hussein ordered the gassing of kurdish civilians, a fact cited to support current US military actions against Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2002 8:07pm PDT
SF Caravan to Protest Bush Friday
Let’s send a loud and clear message to George Bush
when he visits California next Friday: No War on Iraq!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 16, 2002 4:01pm PDT
Bush in Stockton - buses and stuff
The focus of the protest appears to be No War in Iraq...
Posted: Fri, Aug 16, 2002 3:40pm PDT