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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


Progressive Resources

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

This Week on Counterpoint

Show date: March 10, 2014

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NATO's March Eastward Remains Major Obstacle to Reaching Peaceful Settlement of Ukraine Crisis

MP3 Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine and author of "The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama"
Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses her recent opinion piece published in the Washington Post titled, "The Ukraine crisis calls for less bluster, more common sense," and also assesses the U.S. corporate media's coverage of the Ukraine crisis.


On Third Anniversary of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Radiation Continues to Pour into Pacific Ocean

MP3 Interview with Harvey Wasserman, veteran social justice and environmental activist and author of a dozen books, including, "Solartopia! Our Green-powered Earth"
Harvey Wasserman talks about his recent article, "50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima," and related issues on nuclear power on the eve of the third anniversary of Japan's catastrophic nuclear disaster.


Energy Companies and Politicians Falsely Using Ukraine Crisis to Expedite Export of U.S. Natural Gas to Europe

MP3 Interview with James Northrup, anti-fracking activist and investor in real estate, Internet, oil, gas and offshore oil rigs
James "Chip" Northrup discusses the Ukranian crisis and its relation to energy issues, i.e. Ukraine and Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas and oil, and Washington and energy corporations' current effort to reduce that dependency by fast tracking the construction of U.S. LNG export terminals -- and encouraging fracking shale formations in Ukraine.


Proposed Connecticut Anti-Racial Profiling Legislation Would Issue Traffic Stop Receipts

MP3 Interview with David Samuels, founder of Connecticut's Community Party
David Samuels talks about his group's proposed anti-racial profiling legislation, known as the "Trayvon Martin Act," which calls for the creation of a legislative task force on police misconduct. The bill will be introduced in the Connecticut State legislature this year.


 

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