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Alexis Tsipras: "Anti-Austerity Politics in Greece, Europe and Beyond"


A talk by the leader of Greece's leading Left Party Coalition, on recorded on Jan. 25, 2013 at The City University of New York, in a program sponsored by CUNY's Center for the Study of Culture, Technology, and Work.

Alexis Tsipras, a member of the Hellenic parliament, president of the Synaspismos political party since 2008, head of the SYRIZA parliamentary group since 2009, and leader of the Opposition since June 2012. SYRIZA currently leads in Greek opinion polls.


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Counterpoint is broadcast live every Monday evening from 8 to 10 p.m. ET, and can be heard worldwide at www.WPKN.org (Follows the 5-7 minute White Rose Calendar.)

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Scott's most recent Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists Award 2011:
Reporting / In-Depth Series; Radio
First place: "Occupy Wall Street: The birth of a movement for the 99%; Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine; Scott Harris


Between The Lines Blog  BTL Blog

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"For Natives, a "Day of Mourning"by Reginald Johnson, November 23, 2016

"A Bitter Harvest" by Reginald Johnson, Nov. 15, 2016

Special Programming Special Programming

chomskyNoam Chomsky on the Occupy Wall Street movement
Noam Chomsky is linguistics and philosophy professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of nearly 100 books, Chomsky is one of the world's most widely read progressive dissident intellectuals. He talks about his new book, "Occupy," about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the wider issues of class warfare in the America today.
Listen to this interview (June 6, 2011)

MP3: Nathan Schneider (www.wagingnonviolence.org) has been reporting on the OWS movement from its first days in August, 2011. In this April 3, 2012 interview, Richard Hill asks him to assess the on-going debate in the movement between those espousing a strict adherence to non-violence principles and practices and those advocating a 'diversity of tactics', Interview conducted by Richard Hill, WPKN

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"MP3 Audio of Four Panel Discussions from the Left Forum", produced by Scott Harris, March 20, 2010, Pace University, New York, NY


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A compilation of activist and news sites with a progressive point of view

This Week on Counterpoint

Show date: Feb. 25, 2013

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Peter Kuznick:  Film series and Book Examine "The Untold History of the United States"

MP3 Interview with Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University, and author of several books including, "Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America," and co-author of "Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,"
Peter Kuznick talks about his recent work with with Academy Award winning film maker Oliver Stone on the 10-part Showtime television documentary film series and book, co-authored with Oliver Stone, "The Untold History of the United States."


Lisa Graves:  Investigation Reveals Interests Behind Astroturf "Fix the Debt" Campaign to Slash Nation's Social Safety Net

MP3 Interview with Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy,
Lisa Graves discusses the investigation that revealed the people and interests behind the "Fix the Debt" campaign's effort to undermine the nation's social safety net programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
See BTL page for full description, subject links and edited audio


Chris Hebdon:  Student-Community Opposition Mobilizes Against Planned Pentagon-Funded Yale Program Researching Interrogation Techniques for the U.S. Military

MP3 Interview with Chris Hebdon, Yale Graduate student
Chris Hebdon explains why a campaign was initiated on the Yale University campus and in the New Haven community to mobilize opposition in response to reports that Yale Medical School had been seeking a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to open a program that would conduct research on New Haven's local immigrant population for the purpose of developing "interviewing," aka interrogation techniques for the U.S. military!
See BTL page for full description, subject links and edited audio


 

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