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Best of Flashpoints 11-06-09

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Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Arundhati Roy, Donna Smith, Chuck Idelson, Andy Bichlbaum, Antonia Juhasz, Josh Healey

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Nov. 6, 2009, 2:33 p.m.

Summary: Best of Flashpoints - Week of Nov. 2-6, 2009

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Credits: Nora Barrows-Friedman, Dennis Bernstein, Eric Klein

Notes: 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.

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