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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


Progressive Resources

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

This Week on Counterpoint

Show date: Aug. 3, 2015

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Civil Disobedience Action Targets Shell Icebreaker Ship Bound for Oil Drilling Rig in Arctic

MP3 Interview with Daphne Wysham, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy
Daphne Wysham discusses the ongoing campaign to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and the recent civil disobedience actions organized to block Shell's icebreaker MSV Fennica from moving out of Portland, Oregon’s harbor


On Medicare's 50th Birthday, Bills in Congress Would Expand Medicare to All Citizens

MP3 Interview with Vijay Das, healthcare policy advocate with Public Citizen's Congress Watch
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Medicare program, Vijay Das talks about the current effort to expand Medicare to a new program that covers the healthcare needs of all U.S. citizens – in essence to initiate a single-payer healthcare system very similar to health insurance programs that operate in virtually all other industrialized nations around the world.


EPA Sued for Its Conditional Approval of Nanotechnology Pesticide

MP3 Interview with Jaydee Hanson, policy director with the International Center for Technology Assessment
Jaydee Hanson discusses his group's joint lawsuit with the Center for Food Safety, challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's conditional approval of the nanosilver-containing antimicrobial pesticide product named "Nanosilva" – and the health and safety concerns surrounding nanotechnology.


Connecticut NAACP Launches Investigation of 2014 Death of Young Black Lawyer in Redding, Connecticut

MP3 Interview with Scot X. Esdaile, Connecticut NAACP president
Scot X. Esdaile talks about his group and others' call for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of Gugsa Abraham “Abe” Dabela, a young black attorney who died under suspicious circumstances on a rural road in Redding, Connecticut on April 5, 2014.


 

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