Today on the show: International law scholar, Francis Boyle says the International Court of Justice is failing  to stop the genocide in Gaza as it did in case of Bosnia that culminated in the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre.  Also We’ll have a live report from the student anti-genocide encampment on the Campus of U.C. Berkeley, right down the block from KPFA Pacifica free speech radio

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Today on the Show: Gaza on the brink, as the IDF ramps up its attacks and shuts down the Rafah Border. We’ll have a frontline update on Rafah and the west bank with Zeiad Abas of MECA.. Remembering Rachel Corrie, Runover and murdered 21 years ago by an israeli bulldozer as she stood against the Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Rafah

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Today on the Show: Israel’s answer to the cease fire proposal is to declare war on Rafah. We’ll feature a front line report with Zeiad Abbas from the Middle East Alliance:

And We’ll have live reports from Student Encampments and actions at U.C. Berkeley, Sonoma State University, and George Washington University

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On Today’s Show: US Secretary of State in San Francisco, greeted by protesters with the mock blood of Palestinians. The East Bay City of Richmond, California takes a bold step to divest from companies that do business with the Israel apartheid State. And Nora Barrows Friedman talks to antigenocide students from coast to coast

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Today on the Show: We continue our drumbeat reporting on the genocidal policies that the US continues to weaponize and defend. We’ll be joined again by Zeiad Abbas, executive director of the Middle East Children Alliance for frontline reports on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Also students recovering from police violence at UCLA. We’ll talk to one student activist to find out what’s next for the anti-genocide movement on UCLA. And we celebrate Cinco De mayo with a commentary from our Own Miguel Gavilan Molina:

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Today on the show: We’ll speak to the president of the National Lawyers Guild, and to Chip Gibbons of Defending Rights & Dissent about the resurgence of police power in the face of the new national student movement against genocide in Palestine.  Also we’ll have a report from UCLA in the aftermath of an attack by a violent pro-Israel contingent, and we’ll talk to the author of a new book Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom

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Today on the show: We feature some recent report backs from Flashpoints contributing reporter, Daniel Rodriguez, on the floatilla to Gaza and the recent student protests against the genocide in Palestine.

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Today on the Show: The student movement for justice in Palestine is exploding peacefully across America, despite  a violent police crack down on several campuses; we’ll feature live reports from New York City and Los Angles. Also Ziad Abbas is back for a frontline update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the west bank: And we’ll also have a rafa update on the threatened israeli invasion

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Today on the show: Columbia students defy a 2pm deadline to get lost or risk their academic future as students at the elite east coast University. Also Code-Pink founder, Medea Benjamin, on the White House/white wash correspondents’ dinner-protest. Medea and her partner, roughed up and tossed out of the Correspondents dinner for holding up a sign: ‘100 journalists killed in Gaza.’ The dinner was supposed to be about free speech. We’ll speak to Laurel Krause, the sister of Aliison Krause, one of 4 students gunned down by the national guard on Kent State Campus, during a protest against the Viet Nam War in 1970. We’ll also have an eye-witness to the campus killing

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Today on the Show: Ziad Abbas is back for an update on the expanding attacks in the west bank and the expanding genocide in Gaza. Also an extended report back from the Gaza Boat to break the Israeli Embargo and and call attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.  And students and their teachers in Humbolt County Northern Cal on fire about genocIde in Gaza

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