"Best of Flashpoints" is a weekly, one-hour digest featuring the hottest segments of the week.
Music and Poetry: John Trudell - "Famine in the Plenty" - from Descendant Now Ancestor Bob Marley and the Wailers - "War" from Exodus
This week on Flashpoints:
Immigration agents raid an Oakland Elementary School, we'll speak to the school's principal and Arnoldo Garcia about the intensification of ICE raids and racist anti-immigrant attacks across the country. Moyra Contraras, Principle at Melrose Leadership Academy Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Police attack protesters, including elderly women, with taser guns and pepper spray in New Orleans as the City Council votes unanimously to destroy 4500 public housing units, we'll have a report from Kali Akuno Kali Akuno, People's Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans www.peopleshurricane.org Senate Bill 1668 Keeps People in Their Homes!
An update on Blackwater's looming defeat in Southern California with Congressman Bob Filner and Jeremy Scahill. journalist and author Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Congressmen Bob Filner, Representative of California's 51st Congressional District
And a report back from our special correspondent Kevin Pina who's just returned from Haiti. www.haitiaction.net