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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: Sept. 1, 2014

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Renewed U.S. Intervention in Iraq Won't Solve the Nation's Many Internal Ethnic Conflicts

MP3 Interview with Raed Jarrar, policy impact coordinator with the American Friends Committee's Office of Public Policy
Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-born political analyst, discusses his views on the expanding U.S. military intervention in northern Iraq and the possibility that American airstrikes may soon be targeting ISIS forces inside Syria.
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


Veteran Progressive Activist Leslie Cagan Organizing Historic New York City Climate Change Protest

MP3 Interview with Leslie Cagan, lifelong political activist
Leslie Cagan, former national coordinator with United for Peace and Justice, the group which brought together hundreds of thousands of people for major anti-Iraq war protests from 2003 forward, is now one of the primary organizers of the People's Climate March that will take place in New York City on Sept. 21, expected to be the largest climate change protest action in U.S., if not world history.She talks about the goals and logistics of the march, and its importance to the global climate movement. Cagan has organized some of the nation's largest political protest movements, including the peace, anti-nuclear, civil rights, LGBT, feminist and anti-apartheid movements.
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


New Documentary Film Exposes Toxic Work Conditions Endangering Chinese Cell Phone Factory Workers' Health

MP3 Interview with Heather White, Award-winning, researcher and advocate on labor and human rights issues
Heather White discusses her new film, "Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Cheap Electronics." The documentary film chronicles the devastating health effects of chemicals used in the production of Apple iPhones has caused Chinese factory workers.


In Major Breakthrough, Labor Unions Helping Organize New York City's Sept 21st Peoples Climate March

MP3 Interview with Michael Zweig, professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
Michael Zweig talks about the status of American unions on Labor Day 2014 and the participation of the labor movement in the upcoming People's Climate March in New York City on September 21st.


 

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