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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.)

The two hour show in its entirety is archived after midnight ET Monday nights, and is available for at least a year following broadcast in WPKN Radio's Archives.

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Scott also is executive producer of a weekly radio newsmagazine, "Between The Lines," heard on 50 community radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. Between The Lines' podcasts, interview transcripts and program summaries can be found at www.btlonline.org.

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: Dec. 22, 2014

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After 55 Years, Obama Acknowledges U.S. Cuba Policy was a Dismal Failure

MP3 Interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive and co-author with William LeoGrande of the new book, “Back Channel to Cuba"
Peter Kornbluh assesses the factors which led President Obama's to make his dramatic announcement to move toward normalizing relations with the Cuban government after 54 years of diplomatic isolation and a failed embargo. He'll also address the challenges ahead for both Washington and Havana.


Taliban Attack on School that Killed 132 Children, Further Destabilizes a Grief-Stricken Pakistan

MP3 Interview with Jamie McIntyre, Washington D.C.-based correspondent for Al Jazeera America
Jamie McIntyre discusses Pakistan's religious war which last week witnessed a bloody Taliban terrorist attack on a military-run school in Peshawar that killed 145 people, including 132 children.


From Occupy to Ferguson, New Movements are Merging to Confront Broken U.S. Political and Economic System

MP3 Interview with Paul Engler, founding director of the Center for the Working Poor in Los Angeles
Paul Engler discusses the topics covered in the recent article he co-wrote with his brother Mark, "What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode," and assess the current nationwide mobilization against police violence in communities of color.


Report on Connecticut Green Party November Election Campaign, 2015 Legislative Agenda

MP3 Interview with Mike DeRosa, co-chair of the Connecticut Green Party and 2014 candidate for CT Secretary of State
Mike DeRosa talks about how the party performed in the November election and their legislative agenda for 2015.


 

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