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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: March 14, 2016

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Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Continues Five Years After Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami

MP3 Interview with Tim Judson, executive director with the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)
Tim Judson assesses the status of the Fukushima nuclear cleanup operation in Japan on the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which triggered the disaster on March 11, 2011. He also discusses the post-Fukushima condition of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. and around the world.


Opposition to Free Trade Upends Primary Election Campaign, Challenges Elite Consensus

MP3 Interview with Melinda St Louis, international campaigns director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Melinda St Louis examines the debate on free trade issues in the Democratic and Republican party primary campaigns, how important this issue is likely to be in this fall's general election and the ongoing campaign to defeat the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.


Electronic Voting without Verifiable Paper Trail, Makes US Elections Vulnerable to Manipulation

MP3 Interview with Harvey Wasserman, life-long activist
Harvey Wasserman discusses his recent article co-written with Bob Fitrakis titled, "We Need the 'Ohio Plan' to Stop the 'Strip & Flip' of American Elections." He also touches on the status of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster. Mr. Wasswerman is also an author who speaks, writes and organizes on energy, the environment, history and election protection issues


Activists: Radioactive Leak Under Indian Point Nuclear Plant, Another Reason to Close It Down!

MP3 Interview with Manna Jo Greene, environmental director with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Manna Jo Greene talks about recent testing which revealed a spike in the amount of radioactive tritium being discharged from the Indian point nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York into the groundwater near the Hudson River, the seven major malfunctions that occurred at the plant in 2015, the status of Indian Point's NRC re-licensing process and the guilty plea entered by the "Indian Point 11" for their direct action protest against Indian Point in December.


 

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