Flashpoints Radio Nov 18: Poindexter is Big Brother; news from Baghdad; Gaza; WB

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Followup Nov 15 by Huwaida Arraf re: actions planned Flashpoints Nov 13
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ISRAELI FORCES CARRY OUT VICIOUS ARRESTS OF INTERNATIONAL AND ISRAELI PEACE ACTIVISTS! Peaceful protests attacked - [JAYYOUS, QALQILIA] Nov 14, the Israeli military arrested nine international and one Israeli peace activist after gassing and shooting rounds of live ammunition into a crowd of approximately 200 Palestinian men, women, and children who, accompanied by 30 International volunteers, staged a peaceful protest and sit-in at the site of Israeli destruction of Palestinian agricultural land. Huwaida's indymedia post | her report | her photos

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Monday, Nov 18, 2002 - Start Audio

Robert Knight and the Knight Report..

From William Safire in the NY Times: "Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen."
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks."

Mexico playing a new role in helping the US war on terrorism.. now w John Ross, poet, journalist, and author of The War Against Oblivion, Zapatista Chronicles, review, order from Cody's Online.. John: Mexican president, Vicente Fox, the first foreign visitor to Bush's White House.. now after 9/11 Mexico has fallen off the map.. no relaxation in immigration as planned, so Mexico joined up in the war on terror.. US installed gamma ray machines to scan all incoming traffic.. the northern border just about locked down.. inside Mexico, the US FBI operating openly in Mexico.. that has never happened before.. the Mexican military participating in war games with US off the coast of Colombia.. participating in US military's *North Command* for the first time.. Mexico transformed into US's security perimeter.. Mexico's historical policy of nonintervention.. now joining the war on Iraq.. Mexico voted yes in the Security Council for Bush's UN resolution on Iraq.. voted for US immunity in the International Criminal Court.. on Dec 8, Iraq has to list its weapons.. the pressure on Mexico will be intense to vote for US desires.. the US has no friends, only interests.. the specter of Rudolph Guliani, the advisor the Mexico City Police Force zero tolerance program they are trying to implement.. Mexico giving up a lot, getting nothing in return.. Dennis: if Mexico resisted, how would the US put the screws to them?.. John: a lot of ways (details)..

now with International Solidarity Movement members, Kristin Shurr in Gaza and Huwaida Arraf on the West Bank.. Kristin: it's been happening several nights, but last night the worst so far.. 35 tanks came in from a settlement.. started indiscriminately shelling.. missiles fired from Apache homicide helicopters.. 1.25 million Palestinians living in a small area, the most crowded on earth.. everytime you shoot from the sky you're going to kill a lot of people.. about the *security fence* being built.. military shelling houses, killing people, bulldozing houses.. day and night.. making hundreds homeless.. about a woman the fourth time displaced from her home.. originally from Tel Aviv area.. 80 years old, a lovely woman.. Israel came after her house, no warning.. she tried to run away, injured.. now living in a tent beside the road.. another woman, they knocked over half her house, she tried to live in it, the house filled with raw sewage, she had no where to go, stayed there.. today they knocked another hole.. they soldiers come not on foot, but in bulldozers and heavily armed vehicles.. many children milling around, nothing to do, covered with flies.. stench of raw sewage everywhere.. under international law all Israeli settlements are illegal.. now to Huwaida: on Friday we gathered on the land.. soldiers attacked at the people, tear gas, shooting at people running away.. arrested ten internationals.. some deported already.. the internationals did nothing but speak out.. we managed to stop the bulldozer work for a day.. now the Israelis come in more heavily, firing tear gas, bulldozing trees.. show the world this is not a security wall, not built on the green line, but comes in 6 kilometers, capturing the prime Palestinian farmland.. they are encircling whole communities with the wall, or an electric fence.. people will have to take long detours, go through humiliating lenghtly checkpoints.. walling in communities, and taking their land and water.. like putting people in a cage, and the occupier who have been attacking them, deciding when they can get in or out.. the media never pays any attention to Gaza.. but here a little media.. we are trying to stop Israel and calling on the world to join us.. Dennis: Israel says how about the attack in Hebron.. Huwaida: the attack was not on worshippers, but on soldiers and security guards.. I don't want to see any bloodshed.. Israel needs to get their soldiers and military settlements out of Palestinian territory.. you can't expect to abuse people in such horrific fashion without resistance.. Kristin: call to any international that will come, please come, and house sit, it helps.. most people feel like this is the end for them.. they feel they have no choice but to resist the occupation until they die.. Palestinians treated as sub-human and not listened to by the press, but sometimes they listen to me.

Friday, Nov 15, 2002 - Start Audio

introduction: interview with two American activists in Baghdad.. US military now requiring US high schools to provide students' personal contact information.. interview with the Irish author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday

now w David Goodman, author of the article, No Child Unrecruited, in this month's Mother Jones.. David: a new child education bill.. 678 page law.. requires all high schools in the US to provide names, addresses, and phone numbers of students to military recruiters.. under the radar.. parents can opt out.. but many parents know about it.. schools aren't telling them.. schools don't even know.. ask your school principal about it.. Rumsfeld sending letters to school administrators.. intimidation.. if schools don't comply: stiff sanctions, cut off of aid.. a visit from a uniformed officer.. complaint to the Dept of Defence.. the State Governor calls next.. students and families can organize.. explain to parents they can opt out.. now w Drew Smith, a 16 year old junior from Sir Francis Drake High in Marin County, California.. Drew: I think it is an absolutely rediculous thing, to slip one paragraph into a 678 page law giving up our civil liberties.. I'm planning to opt out, and I'm telling my friends about it too.. it should be the other way around (opt in).. David: the military discriminates against gays and lesbians.. this law overrules local laws banning recruiters from schools..

on January 30, 1972 British paratroopers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Derry.. the infamous Bloody Sunday.. now w Don Mullan.. author of Eyewitness Bloody Sunday.. made into a film, Bloody Sunday.. Don: it was my first civil rights march, 15 years old.. a lovely day.. we had no idea we were going to be attacked.. tear gas.. stones thrown.. a commotion behind.. I could see paratroopers.. then the shooting began.. two feet away, Michael Kelly gasped as a bullet hit him.. a bullet hit above my head.. I lost memory of three minutes.. a primeval instinct took control of me.. 13 dead.. a very terrifying experience.. a life changing event for me and many others.. to witness British murdering us.. and later to hear the media lies.. the official whitewash.. many came to the conclusion that there was no such thing as British justice.. led to the rise of the IRA and hundreds of additional deaths over the years.. about internment.. our movement inspired by the black civil rights movement in the United States.. the Protestant parliment.. the British army moved in.. non-violent leaders put in internment camps.. about the new documentary, Bloody Sunday.. a co-operative effort between British producers, Greengrass and Mark Redhead, and Don.. great reviews.. we all have to accept that terrible things were done in all our names.. we all have blood on our hands.. none of us is innocent.. but we need to find a way to live in dual respect and celebrate our religious and cultural differences.. an important piece of cinema photography.. significant evidence ignored by the Lord Chief Justice Of England.. troops high on the ramparts firing down into the crowd.. Tony Blair announced the setting up of a new tribunal.. hope this film inspires people stuggling for human rights around the globe..