Flashpoints

[upbeat music] From Pacifica Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints.

I'm Dennis Bernstein with Miguel Gabriel Molina.

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 in Arizona and parts south.

All this and more straight ahead.

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[upbeat music] And you're listening to Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio.

My name is Dennis Bernstein.

This is your daily investigative news magazine.

[upbeat electronic music] From Pacifica Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints.

I'm Dennis Bernstein.

Today on the show, Armando Elenes, secretary treasurer of the United Farm Workers blows the whistle on the growing numbers of violent ICE raids and roundups in California.

Also, Haiti Action co-founder Robert Roth joins us for a frontline Haiti update as US armed death squads roam the streets of Port-au-Prince.

And Pinknotes looks at the war machine.

What's new, huh? All this and more coming up straight ahead on Flashpoints.

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From Pacifica Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints.

I'm Dennis Bernstein.

From the studios of KPFA in Berkeley, California, and Pacifica Radio, this is Flashpoints.

On today's show, we return to Caracas, Venezuela, to talk with Giselle Perdomo about the golden 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 in the leadership of the Venezuelan government.

Then locally, it's my turn again in the chair to stress test listener support for Flashpoints.

Yes, it's my turn.

I'm going to be pitching again for your support.

Many listeners wrote me at kpina at kpfa.org asking that I rebroadcast that interview.

I'm going to do that.

[upbeat music] From Pacifica Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints.

I'm Dennis Bernstein.

Today on the show, we kick off a new series of longer interviews that, uh, we're calling Long Form, hosted by award-winning poet and writer Jennifer 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 e- uh, explores Bruce Lee's impact on the Asian American identity from segregated San Francisco to martial arts stardom.

All this and more coming up straight ahead on Flashpoints.

Stay tuned.

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