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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
Juan Raul Garza's Last Bid MEXICAN Juan Raúl Garza, under sentence of death in the United States, appealed for the commutation of that sentence by demonstrating that he would never have been apportioned such a punishment if he had not come from an ethnic minority....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2001 4:01pm PDT
Planning Meeting for Idriss Stelley, Thursday Night come tonight and plan the next steps in this critical police accountability claim! support your community!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2001 3:51am PDT
Berkeley Police Review Rejects Reclaim the Streets Harrassment Grievances summary of events at the berkeley police review commission meeting tonight....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2001 3:22am PDT
Gas Chamber moving to Folsom Folsom city officials insist the proposed inmate transfer is the first
step in a secret plan to relocate San Quentin's nearly 600 condemned
inmates -- and the state's execution chamber -- to Folsom....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 7:17pm PDT
LETTER EMAILED TO 1500 WORLD and NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS + 500 in US government ...SEATTLE A Call to Seattle RESIDENTS - WITNESS'S NEEDED; To Seattle Police officers - crashing into Seattle police officer's, and shooting 20 to 39(?) bullets at Seattle Police officers; July 10th, 2001; 1:32 AM; [Just North of - the crest of the hill - at east Roanoke St and Harvard Ave East - (on Capitol Hill).]. If you live in the area and have felt, (or feel), any "endangerment" (or fear) due to this event; (or if you feel you have any information you would like to witness); Please cont...
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 4:49am PDT
Jim Bell Gets 10 Years for Writing Essay we live in a police state we live in a police state we live in a police state we live in a police state...
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2001 4:03am PDT
268-hour memorial sit-in in SF 268-hour sit-in at Chinese consulate in San Francisco, memorializing the 268 people known dead from police torture during the two-year near-genocidal suppression of Falun Gong....
Posted: Sun, Aug 26, 2001 9:17pm PDT
FBI testimony provokes fear of new Cointelpro Can corporate media explain why the crimes of the FBI are not news? (and the oakland riders, and sfpd, richmond pd, etc etc etc)...
Posted: Sat, Aug 25, 2001 12:13am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 23: Copwatch guy Jason argues with the fuzz (17 min) KPFA Flashpoints Radio Aug 24, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Interview w Hussein Ibish of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (20 min)
- Civil rights attorney John Burris, and author A.C. Thompson: about
the Oakland "Riders" police scandal (17 min)
- Copwatch guy Jason argues with the fuzz (17 min)...
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 10:33pm 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
IMC NEWS BLAST | THE UNITED STATES' PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX | AUGUST 20, 2001 A compilation of notices, stories and opinions posted to the Independent Media Center network about the United States' prison-industrial complex, inspired by the Philadelphia IMC's coverage of last week's protests at the American Correctional Association's yearly convention....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2001 5:10am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 20: Barbara Lubin in Hebron; Prison Madness: DC lawsuit KPFA Flashpoints Radio August 20, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Barbara Lubin in Hebron: Palestinian family hides in house as settlers dig up their garden, pitch a tent, and help themselves to grapes (17 min)
- Dennis Bernstein interview with settler spokesman (8 min)
- Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness: about the cruel and inhumane
environment of modern prisons.. (15 min)
- Partnership for Civil Justice: about the free-speech lawsuit filed today against the Was...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2001 2:56pm PDT
When Official Brutality Gets Brazen The Free Soil Party is appalled, though not surprised, at the continuing failure of most Italian and American leaders to denounce this escalation of terror tactics by reactionary security forces guarding the recent G8 summit in Genoa. We hope for a thorough investigation, including who authorized tactics like charging into demonstrators in the protest zone, beating people for no good reason, shooting to kill. If dissent is not respected in a democracy, there can be no democracy, no matter wha...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2001 4:01am PDT
World Socialists on Mumia Abu-Jamal The World Socialist Website has an excellent article on Mumia Abu-Jamal on 8/21/01, including a short statement from Mumia on his being barred from the courtroom. It also contains a detailed analysis of what went on in the courtroom. See:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/maj-a21.shtml...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2001 1:30am PDT
Feature Mumia Abu-Jamal; ILWU & G8 When will San Francisco Independent Media feature Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Only Philadelphia and Chicago are featuring Mumia. This case has put on the international stage the fascist nature of the American judicial system and its clear genocidal course. A French delegation appeared at Mumia's hearing on August 17 and France has apparently given Mumia French citizenship....
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2001 7:00am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Aug 17: Balkans Dubya's powderkeg; Mumia not allowed in court KPFA Flashpoints Radio August 17, 2001 (link to scrollable audio in 'full story' text below)
- Discussion of NATO/US shenanigans in the Balkans (21 min)
- Mumia had a hearing today, but wasn't allowed in court (6 min)
- Hear Arnold Beverly's affidavit confessing to the murder of Officer Faulkner (5 min)
- Lynn Washington: how the police engineered the verdict (11 min)
- Alice Walker reads from the foreword she wrote for All Things Considered (5 min)
- Mumia audio commentary on the upco...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 10:45pm PDT
Mumia -SF Press Conference & Picket NOON TODAY!! Emergency Alert!
Press Conference and Picket Line State Building, Van Ness and MacAllister Today
Rally Saturday...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 11:45am PDT
Democracy Now! today on KPFA only: Mumia given French citizenship Democracy Now! w Amy Goodman airs today on KPFA only (audio link at top Flashpoints.net front page)
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Mumia given French citizenship.
French officials will monitor Mumia's hearing tomorrow...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 10:37am PDT
ACTION EMAIL! HELP SEATTLE! WITNESS DIVERSITY! (#s + Address's) With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.....
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Abraham Lincoln..................................
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 4:58am PDT
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