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Today on the show: We examine the intensifying battle over federal repression and the right to protest ICE. In the wake of massive demonstrations against ICE’s “Operation Metro Surge,” Dec 2025-Feb. 2026 in Minnesota, the Department of Justice leveled severe conspiracy charges against community defenders now known as the Minnesota 15. We are joined by a diverse panel of union organizers, state workers, and educators—including filmmaker Kip Hedges and two of the MN15 defendants—to discuss this politically motivated crackdown, the nationwide solidarity campaign pushing back, and why labor and community leaders are drawing a hard line to defend these activists. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post The Battle Over Federal Repression and the Right to Protest ICE appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with Greg Palast, keeping his political magnifying glass on Texas. We’ll feature part 5 of Jim Crow reloaded with Palast. We’ll speak with RAED JARRAR of the Human rights group, DAWN, about the rapidly expanding Israeli threats of an all out war against Iran, essentially to save Bebe’s political ass. Richard Becker of Answer Coalition also weighs in on the subject. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post The Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: We celebrate the release of a powerful new Autobiography by Bay area luminary, and long-time human rights attorney, and old friend of Flashpoints, Mr. Osha Neumann. Also joining us is Flashpoints contributor and investigative reporter and solatopia visionary Harvey Wasserman. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We Celebrate the Release of a Powerful New Autobiography By Osha Neumann appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Are Trump’s data centers heading for the historic Mission District: Not if San Franciscans have their way. Also joining US today, resident Flashpoints troubadour, Francisco Herrera. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Live From Medicine for Nightmares Book Store in the Heart of San Francisco’s Mission District appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: A special edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. As the battle for Texas and the south gets down and dirty, and the lone-star state is bracing for voter related violence. Tariq Ra’ouf joins us: A former Apple employee and co-founder of “Apples Against Apartheid”. Cynthia Papermaster is back with another edition of PINKNOTES, with our special guest Danaka Katovich, the national co-director of CODEPINK. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post A Special Edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We address the links between the racist anti-Haitian government of President Luis Abinader in the Dominican Republic with the xenophobic racism of the Trump regime. We also talk about recent reports of members of the Dominican military and police supplying arms and ammunition to paramilitary gangs in Haiti. We also look at the recent disappearance of four Salvadorean soldiers with the so-called international Gang Suppression Force or GSF. We return to Sao Paolo, Brazil to discuss the upcoming runoff between the Trump supported rightwing candidacy of Flavio Bolsonaro and center-left candidate Lula da Silva.Did Mark Zuckerberg the Trump mafia a solid by throttling Facebook and Instagram to help Bolsonaro win the first round? An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We Address the Racist Anti-Haitian Government of…

Today on show: Thousands of Palestinians continue to face life and death conditions in occupied Gaza, as the US supported Israeli military continue their genocide. We’ll be joined by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of Middle East Children’s Alliance to talk about the ongoing resistance to the illegal occupation and the multiple challenges to getting supplies into Gaza. MECA presents a”100 Years of Palestine: An Immersive Exhibition that walks visitors through a century of Palestinian history, heritage, and culture. We will rebroadcast last Thursday’s powerful extended newscast from the Electronic Intifada with Nora Barrows Friedman. This broadcast is an important one to hear and we believe it has earned a rebroadcast for your full attention!! An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Thousands of Palestinians Continue to Face Life…

Today on the show: Professor Ron Lopez Chicano Studies, Sonoma State University on the fears his indigenous students face as they go back to school for the fall semester. Decoding Pro-Israel Buzzwords in a Time of Genocide. Norman Solomon joins us to talk about how language matters when you trying to justify mass murder and genocide. Poet, artist, Visionary, Truong Tran has a new memoir: HOW TO EXIST: A poet’s memoir. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post How Language Matters When You Trying to Justify Mass Murder and Genocide. appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Summer Blaze Aubrey, attorney and citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Descendant of the Blackfeet Nation reports on indigenous rights under siege. ICE round-ups continue in the bay area and across northern and central California. Attorney Omar Figuorea reports back on Trump’s deportation machine and growing repression against pots growers. Gloria La Reva just back from Havana Cuba, where she was delivering life and death foods and medicines in violation of the US Boycott policy. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Summer Blaze Aubrey Reports on Indigenous Rights Under Siege. appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The US financed genocide in Gaza claims the lives of children by the dozens. Shredded where they live and when the are forced to travel for survival. We’ll feature the in-depth Electronic Intifada newscast. Co-host Nora Barrows Friedman…today’s news cast also covers the expanding deadly violence in the West Bank. Also joining us Belinda Arriaga Executive director Alas immigrant and refugee rights org in half moon bay: An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We’ll Feature an In-Depth Electronic Intifada Newscast appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We go to Sao Paolo and take a closer look at the elections in Brazil and allegations of interference by the Trump regime. Then we feature a roundtable interview with three activists about the legacy of People’s Park here in Berkeley, CA. Once a symbol of the antiwar movement and the counter culture movement, the chancellor and regents of UC Berkeley system have entombed it behind double stacked rusty shipping containers topped with concertina razor wire. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Is the Trump Regime Trying to Fix Elections in Brazil? appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Armando Elenas, Secretary Treasurer of the United Farm Workers blows the whistle on the growing numbers of violent ICE raids and roundups in California. Haiti Action co-founder Robert Roth joins us for a front-line Haiti update, as US ARMED death squads roam the streets of Port a Prince. PINK NOTES with Cynthia Papermaster. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We Talk to Armando Elenas, Secretary Treasurer of the United Farm Workers appeared first on KPFA.

TODAY ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF FLASHPOINTS: WE CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY WITH AN EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH Jeff Chang BY FLASHPOINTS CONTRIBUTOR JENNIFER HASEGAWA. BASED ON HIS MOVING BOOK WATER MIRROR ECHO. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post An Extended Interview with Jeff Chang appeared first on KPFA.

An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – October 9, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: The genocide upsurge continues in Occupied Palestine: we’ll feature as we do every aThursday, the Electronic Intifada frontline newscast with Nora Barrows Friedman: Also today, we’ll feature our ongoing presentation of poems of the Genocide, as Anita Barrows contines her commitment to write a poem to document every single day of the current and ongoing, US financed genocide in Palestine: and for our national audience we rebroadcast our segment on a devastating decision for millions of immigrants as the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, and Third-country deportations. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – October 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show, we return to Caracas Venezuela to talk with Giselle Perdomo about the gold and oil being lifted from the country by the White House mafia. We’ll also address the tough choices being made by the Bolivarian Circles movement and the leadership of the Venezuelan government. The post The Looting of Venezuela and Grassroots Resistance appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Excerpts from a powerful new speech by endangered Palestinian organizer and writer Mahmoud Khalil on political repression, Palestine solidarity, and the fight against authoritarianism in the United States and around the world. The discussion will also mark the publication of Khalil’s first book, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention, a memoir drawing on his prison diary and recounting his arrest, incarceration, separation from his family, and continuing struggle against deportation. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Flashpoints – October 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: we kick-off a new series of Longer interviews that we’re calling the Long Form, Hosted by award-winning Poet and writer Jennifer Ja-Ha Hasegawa: We kick off the series today with an extended interview with Jeff Chang, the American Book Award-winning author of: Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. Chang’s cultural biography that explores Bruce Lee’s impact on the Asian American identity, from segregated San Francisco to martial arts stardom. The post Flashpoints – October 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: Nuclear Madness at the edge: We’ll be joined by Linda Seeley of Mothers For Peace, On a special edition of Pinknotes, our continuing collaboration with CODEPINK. Linda Seeley has been in a multi-year, pitched battle to shut down Diablo Canyon before it melts down and turns a good chunk of the California north coast into a museum you need protective gear to enter. Joining us again is Cynthia Papermaster of CODE PINK who has helped us cook up this weekly collaboration with Code pink. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Nuclear Madness at the Edge appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the show: We continue our drumbeat coverage of the continuing US/Israeli Genocide in Gaza, and the expanding settler violence in the occupied west bank. For a front line view of the ongoing genocide across Palestine, we’ll feature the expanded weekly edition of the powerful Electronic Intifada Newscast, with Nora Barrows Friedman. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Weekly Edition of Electronic Intifada Newscast appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show: We discuss Priests Against Genocide’s recent direct action campaign in Rome and at the UN in New York with Father John Heagle. He also discusses the progressive role of Pope Leo and the fallacies of Christian Zionism. Courtesy of The Southern Cross, The Catholic Magazine for South Africa. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Priests Against Genocide appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: In a devastating decision for millions of immigrants, the Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, Third-country deportations. We’ll speak to Longtime human rights, civil rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez about the multiple implications of this decision. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post The Supreme Court Allows for Rapid, Third-Country Deportations. appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: A special edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast. How Ken Paxton will steal Texas; And Greg reminds us that this ain’t nothing new for Paxton, who appears to be a self-proclaimed vote thief for Donald Trump. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post A Special Edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Greg Palast appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Israel tightens the noose of genocide in Palestine. We’ll be joined by Rami Khader, founder of ANAR for Empowerment and psychosocial support, who has been working in the deepest ways with families, and children in particular in the West Bank, and now in what’s left of the Gaza Strip: Children who have been imprisoned and tortured. The Genocide poems of Gaza/anita Barrows is back with the poem of the day. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post Israel Tightens the Noose of Genocide in Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

Today on the Show: Gloria La Riva, just back from an extended visit to Cuba, where hunger is growing by the day and the entire country is desperate for life and death medicines and the children once again are being crushed by US policy. An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein. The post We Talk to Gloria La Riva, Just Back From an Extended Visit to Cuba appeared first on KPFA.