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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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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

"The Rogue World Order: Connecting the Dots Between Trump, Flynn, Bannon, Spencer, Dugin Putin," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Feb. 13, 2017

"Widespread Resistance Begins to Trump's Muslim Travel Ban at U.S. Airports," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 28, 2017

"MSNBC Editor: Women's March is a Revival of the Progressive Movement," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 24, 2017

"Cornering Trump," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 19, 2017

"Free Leonard Peltier," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 6, 2016

"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. 17, 2014

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U.S. Government Debates Plan to Assassinate a 5th American Citizen by Drone Attack for Alleged Terrorist Activity

MP3 Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink Women for Peace and author of the book "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control"
Medea Benjamin talks about the constitutional issues involved in recent reports that the Obama administration is considering assassinating a U.S. citizen living in Pakistan by means of a drone strike for his alleged terrorist activity. To date, the U.S. government is known to have killed four other U.S. citizens who were targeted in attacks against suspected terrorists.


Largest Civil Rights Protest in the South Since 1965 Selma to Montgomery March Sends a Hopeful Message to America

MP3 Interview with Isaiah Poole, Campaign for America’s Future blog editor
Isaiah Poole discusses his recent article, "A March in North Carolina For The Soul of America," describing the significance of the Feb. 8 march of an estimated 80,000 people, the largest such gathering in the South since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march organized to protest the extremist policies of North Carolina's GOP-controlled legislature. He'll also discuss the broader issues relating to the agenda of today's progressive movement, effective policy prescriptions to reverse income inequality and challenge voter suppression.


Documentary Film Traces Historical Roots of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

MP3 Interview with Alice Rothchild, author of the book, "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience"
Alice Rothchild talks about her new film, "Voices Across the Divide," a 2013 documentary and oral history project exploring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She'll be discussing the film following a screening at the Yale University Law School on Feb. 24.


United Auto Workers Suffer Defeat in Unionization Drive at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant

MP3 Interview with David Moberg, senior editor with the newsmagazine In These Times
David Moberg discusses the United Auto Workers' Feb. 14 election defeat at the Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the broader issues facing the U.S. labor movement as unions continue to lose membership and income inequality has become a more prominent national issue.


 

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