{"article":{"id":7844,"heading":"Flashpoints Radio Update: Bio 2001, Ariel Sharon, and Leonard Peltier","author":"Jaguar Johnny","created":"2001-06-27 00:36:55","modified":"2005-08-15 00:35:27","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:35:27","article":"Monday, June 25, 2001 - Start Audio<\/big><\/strong>
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein w Celia Alario reporting from the biotechnology conference taking place in San Diego through Wednesday; protestors dressed as ears of corn and ripe juicy tomatoes; a counter- conference called BioDevastation 2001. Yesterday over 1,000 people marched peacefully through San Diego. Police spent $3,000,000 on prep. Biotech industry spent $250,000,000 on propaganda. Fear in the activist community over the increasing militarization of the police
-06:00 Interview w Luke Anderson, author of Genetic Engineered Food and The Enviroment.<\/i> The 'Golden Rice' scam. The many hidden dangers with unregulated genetic engineering.
-11:05 Interview with Professor Richard Falk of Princeton University who has just been placed under police protection after receiving death threats for talking about Ariel Sharon's role in war crimes on a BBC documentary, Sharon, The Accused<\/i> (watch video or read transcript). Mr Sharon is entitled to a fair trial, but there is a very solid foundation for indicting him for war crimes. The Israeli military surrounded the camps, barring the residents from fleeing the Phalange; providing flares so the Phalange could see what they were doing; and in constant radio contact with the Phalangist command. Professor Falk: It is the responsibility of citizens in a free society to speak the truth and not let themselves be intimidated.<\/i>
-29:10 Noelle Hanrahan: Interview w Native-American activist, Professor Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado. Leonard Peltier serving his 26th year in prison for the murder of 2 FBI agents. A jury in 1976 determined that the agents died in self-defense. 11,000 documents about the case withheld by the Feds ostensibly for *national security* - Prof Churchill: \"we have living been in a police state for a very long time.\" <\/i>The 'Wobblies' were effectively destroyed by government intervention almost 100 years ago. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party. <\/i> Ward speaks tomorrow, Tuesday night, at 7PM at the New College of San Francisco.
-54:00 End today's show
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