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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 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: Jan. 23, 2017

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The Trump Resistance Starts Now: Voices from the Revival of the US Progressive Movement

MP3 Women's March
The first hour of the show brings you speeches and interviews from the historic Women's March on Washington and the previous day's inauguration protests organized to challenge the hateful rhetoric of the new president that has insulted, demonized, and threatened immigrants, minority groups, women and other vulnerable communities. Speeches broadcast include Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis and Michael Moore.


Lawsuit Claims Trump Conflicts of Interest Violates US Constitution

MP3 Interview with Aaron Scherb, director of legislative affairs with Common Cause
Aaron Scherb discusses President Trump and his family's many unresolved financial conflicts of interest, the lack of transparency regarding Trump's business and finance investments and debt and his longstanding failure to release his tax returns. Aaron talks about what Common Cause is demanding of Trump and Congress to address the violation of ethics and the U.S. Constitution, the subject of a recent federal lawsuit.


Campaign to End Prison Solitary Confinement Comes to New Haven, CT

MP3 Interview with Five Mualimm-ak, human rights and prison reform advocate
Five Mualimm-ak, who spent 11 years in New York’s prison system, including five years in solitary confinement, talks about his upcoming trip to New Haven, where he'll participate in the exhibition of a replica solitary confinement cell Jan. 30 - Feb. 18, 2017, to educate and equip people to advocate for limiting and stopping the use of prison solitary confinement.


 

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