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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: Aug. 25, 2014

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Could Public Outrage at Michael Brown Shooting Death and Widespread Police Brutality Inspire New Civil Rights Movement?

MP3 Interview with Vernellia Randall, emeritus professor of law at the University of Dayton, Ohio
Vernellia Randall examines the police shooting death of Michael Brown, public protest in Ferguson, Missouri and elsewhere around the country over the pattern of police abuse and violence that has prompted many activists to demand urgent national action to address this decades-long crisis.
An excerpt of this interview was featured on the nationally syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine show. See the BTL page for full description, subject links and edited audio


Widening U.S. Military Intervention Targeting ISIS Forces in Northern Iraq Could Expand Into Syria

MP3 Interview with Dahr Jamail, investigative journalist who has reported on events in Iraq and across the Middle East
Dahr Jamail discusses the expanding U.S. war in Iraq since President Obama's Aug. 7 authorization for U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS forces in northern Iraq and the conflicting and confused set of alliances in a region engulfed by violence and political turmoil.


Rising Tensions Between Russia and Ukraine Could Draw U.S. and NATO Into Dangerous Conflict

MP3 Interview with David Kotz, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
David Kotz discusses the increasingly tense situation in Ukraine. U.S. and NATO accusatsions that Russian artillery is firing on Ukraine forces – as well as a recent 145-truck Russian humanitarian convoy that crossed into Ukraine without Kiev's authorization – has raised concern about the potential for a Russian-Ukraine war.
An excerpt of this interview was featured on the nationally syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine show. See the BTL page for full description, subject links and edited audio


Connecticut Labor, Environmental and Religious Groups Form Coalition in Support of Historic Sept. 21st NYC People's Climate March

MP3 Interview with John Humphries, steering committee member of the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs
John Humphries talks about the local organizing being done in advance of the People's Climate March that will be held in New York City on Sept. 21, which is expected to be the largest climate change protest action in the U.S., if not world history.


 

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