Nora Barrows-Friedman, Dennis Bernstein, Eric Klein
This week on the best of Flashpoints, internationally-renowned author and essayist Arundhati Roy talks about her new book, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; also, an in-depth look at the national health care crisis, as single-payer becomes an endangered idea; Andy Bichlbaum of the corporate prankster activist group the Yes Men talks about the power of nonviolent creative civil disobedience against multinational companies, along with Antonia Juhasz of Global Exchange; and Jewish-American poet Josh Healey discusses why he was disinvited to the J-Street conference in Washington after they learned about his pro-justice views on Palestine.