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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: May 30, 2016

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Movements Rise Up Around the Globe to Confront the Causes of Economic Inequality

MP3 Interview with Tariq Ali, British writer and filmmaker
Tariq Al speaking at the 2016 Left Forum conference in NYC, on the topic of the growing worldwide movement resisting rising economic inequality and austerity.


US Drone Wars' Civilian Casualties Fuel More Terrorism

MP3 Interview with Jeremy Scahill, Documentary filmmaker, journalist and author
Jeremy Scahill(Excerpt of a September 2013 interview) talks about his book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield,"


Israel's New Extremist Defense Minister Denounced Around the World

MP3 Interview with Philip Weiss, founder and co-editor of the online publication, Mondoweiss
Philip Weiss examines the controversy created when Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed far right extremist Avigdor Lieberman as Israeli Defense Minister and the effort by representatives of Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, who serve on the Democratic Party platform drafting committee, to push for a more even-handed U.S. approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


Connecticut Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled Hit with Deep Budget Cuts and Privatization Plan

MP3 Interview with Lindsay Matthews, mother of developmentally disabled son, and member of Our Families Can't Wait
Lindsay Matthews talks about the impact of State of Connecticut budget cuts, and about the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) plan to sell off the care of disabled persons to private for-profit corporations in the health care “industry,” which will eventually end all public funding of DDS services.


 

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