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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

"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: April 21, 2014

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Kiev's Pursuit of NATO Membership a Major Factor in Current Ukraine Crisis

MP3 Interview with John Quigley, professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University
John Quigley describes the building crisis in eastern Ukraine, recent negotiations in Geneva, the threat of a Ukrainian civil war and Russian intervention, and escalating East-West tensions.


Armed Militias and Anti-Government Hate Groups Find Allies in Republican Party

MP3 Interview with Devin Burghart, vice president, Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights
Devin Burghart talks about the shooting deaths of three people in Overland Park, Kansas by accused neo-Nazi gunman Frazier Glenn Miller, the rallying of armed right-wing militia groups confronting agents from the federal Bureau of Land Management in Nevada on behalf of rancher Cliven Bundy and the broader issue of the danger posed by right-wing extremist networks across the U.S.


Campaign to Close Indian Point Nuclear Plant Targets NRC License Renewal Process

MP3 Interview with Marilyn Elie, co-founder of the Westchester Citizens Awareness Network and an original member of the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Marilyn Elie provides an update on her organization's ongoing campaign to close down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. and the response by New York State government officials and the nuclear industry.


Protests Highlighting Growing Inequality in Connecticut, Advocate Three Bills in State Legislature

MP3 Interview with Tom Swan, executive director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Tom Swan talks about 24 protest vigils held across Connecticut on April 8th organized to draw attention to growing economic inequality in one of the nation's wealthiest states. A coalition of groups including the Connecticut Working Families Party, several labor unions, MoveOn.org and local community groups is supporting a set of legislative initiatives in the CT General Assembly they say will help close the income gap.


 

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