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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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Reporting / In-Depth Series; Radio
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"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

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This Week on Counterpoint

Show date: Nov. 27, 2017

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A "Women's Solidarity Network" Could Provide Support for Victims of Sexual Harassment

MP3 Interview with Barbara Maclean, socialist feminist, manager of Oakland, California's One-Stop Career Center
Barbara Maclean discusses her recent thought-provoking article, "Beyond Harvey Weinstein: What Can be Done?" with a focus on her proposal to form a Women's Solidarity Network that could offer legal and educational assistance to groups of women combating sexual harassment and assault. Ms. Maclean is also the founder and organizer of Planning Beyond Capitalism

Reimagining a Strategy to Challenge Trump's Destructive Agenda

MP3 Interview with Doyle Canning, Patrick Reinsborough, co-founder of the Center for Story-based Strategy; Strategist, organizer and creative provocateur
Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough discuss their recent book, "Re: Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World," and article, "The best way to fight Trump is to challenge his narrative."

Honduran Voters Apparently Give Unpopular Incumbent President the Boot

MP3 Interview with Alex Main, senior associate for international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research
Alex Main assesses the November 26th Honduran presidential election, charges of human rights violations, corruption and drug trafficking linked to incumbent candidate Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarad,- and the U.S. government's relationship with the Hernández government and military.

Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny," To Speak in New Haven on Threats to Democracy

MP3 Interview with Stanley Heller, author of "On Tyranny," To Speak in New Haven on Threats to Democracy
Stanley Heller talks about PEP's upcoming Mark Shafer Lecture, Tuesday evening, November 28 at the United Church Parish House, Great Hall, 323 Temple St. New Haven, which will be delivered by Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," Snyder, one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 for the 7 p.m. lecture. Mr. Heller is also a producer of The Struggle public affairs TV program

 

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