FLASHPOINTS

Today on Flashpoints/Radio Flash, we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez’s passing. We’ll speak with the National VP of the UFW, Eric Nicholson, on Chavez’s legacy. We’ll also speak with Manuel Perez of the 56th district, sharing his thoughts on the bipartisan senate’s gang of 8 proposed immigration reform plans. We’ll also hear from Dr. Teresita Dean on Fluoridated municipal drinking water. And finally we proudly re-broadcast our interview with San Francisco poet laureate, Alejandro Muriga, discussing the recent 35th anniversary, celebration of the Mission Cultural Center

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Flashpoints/Radio Flash 03-29-13

Today on flashpoints: Why isn’t George W. Bush prosecuted for war crimes, along with other modern western leaders? We’ll speak to the poet laureate of San Francisco about the history and the Future’s of San Francisco’s historic Mission cultural center. The Biggz Beat is back for a closer look at some headlines you might have missed. And later we rebroadcast our recent interview with Charlie Kernaghan about The President and the Secretary of State turning a blind eye to major labor rights abuses in Jordan during their recent visit there

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Flashpoints 03-28-13

Today on Flashpoints: We broadcast live from San Francisco’s Mission Cultural Center. We’ll celebrate decades of the center’s service to the community. We’ll talk about the role the center has played in the city

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Flashpoints 03-27-13

Today on Flashpoints: Military whistle blower Bradley Manning, stands his ground after a thousand days of rough confinement meant to break his spirit. We’ll have an update on the latest details of his case. Also Randy Credico with a New York City update on the battle against Stop and Frisk, and new police killings in Brooklyn. And what is the real U.S. role in Syria?

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Flashpoints 03-26-13

Today on Flashpoints: The President and the Secretary of State turn a blind eye to major labor rights abuses in Jordan during their recent visit there. Also, members of Witness Against Torture begin a five day fast in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Guantanamo. And we’ll talk to a young woman who spent the last sixty days, 70 feet up in a tree to resist the building of a superhighway.

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Flashpoints 03-25-13

Today on Flashpoints: The media and the Iraq war. We’ll speak to media activist Norman Solomon about the key roll the corporate media played in lying us into two Iraq wars in a row. Also we’ll speak Vietnamese American essayist and short story writer Andrew Lam about his new book, “Birds of Paradise Lost”.

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Flashpoints 03-20-13

Today on Flashpoints: Over 20 years of US wars against Iraq. We’ll continue our drumbeat coverage of the ongoing impacts of a series of deadly US wars against Iraq. We’ll take a look how Bush 1 & 2 lied the US into 2 bloody wars with Iraq. We’ll feature an interview with an Iraqi exile about the deadly failure of US policy in the region. We’ll also hear from an expert on the torture program conceived and supervised by the US in Iraq. We’ll have a report on the human costs and we’ll tale a look at how the media covered the story.

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Flashpoints 03-19-13

Today on Flashpoints: 10 years after the Bush Administration lied the United States into a bloody war with Iraq. We’ll present a new radio documentary by Nora Barrows-Friedman

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Flashpoints 03-18-13

Today on Flashpoints: What did pope Francis the first know about Argentina’s dirty war, when did he know it and was he either complicit in or an active player with the Argentina military, when they were busy kidnapping, and killing over thirty-thousand Argentinians. Well Speak to a liberation theologists, Blasé Bonpane, and our own Miguel Perez, a torture victim and survivor of the dirty war, who is now a producer/host for Flashpoints in Espanol

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Flashpoints 03-14-13

Today on Flashpoints: Day three of our coverage of Fukushima, two years later. On the show today we’ll feature a presentation by Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, on 70 years of radioactive risks in Japan and the United States. Also we’ll hear from David Freeman, former chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, about his own experience in the nuclear age.

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Flashpoints 03-13-13