WPKN Archives: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate

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Counterpoint

Original Aired:
Monday, August 1st, 2016
8:08PM to 10:04PM

Duration:
1 hour, 56 minutes

Posted:
Monday, August 1st, 2016 8:00PM

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honduras education brazil olympics obama economics election progressives clinton rich inequality poor sanders corruption trump republicans democrats impeachment rousseff philadelphia kaine dnc ufe


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Episode: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Chuck Collins, an author and director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, discusses the work of the Patriotic Millionaires on economic inequality, campaign finance reform and tax fairness during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

2) Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine's experience working with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras and Hillary Clinton's role in shaping the current destructive U.S. policy toward Honduras -- as well as the changing political crisis in Brazil as the Olympic Games kick off in Rio de Janeiro.

3) Mike Leyba, Director of Communications with the group United for a Fair Economy, discusses the work UFE is doing this election year re: popular education -- with a focus on concrete policy proposals and specific legislation UFE advocates to reverse growing income and wealth inequality in the U.S.

4) Lenny Siegel, a Bernie Sanders delegate from Mountain View, California, who attended the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Siegel, a leader of the anti-war student movement at Stanford University from 1966 to 1975 and founder of Mountain View Voices for Peace talks about his views on the DNC, Hillary Clinton's candidacy and the issues of war and peace not much addressed in Philadelphia.

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint web site and the full 2-hour unedited program can be accessed at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint
 

Show: Counterpoint

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming is at http://wpkn.org/ . Interview segment archives are at counterpointradio.org .

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