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) Diallo Brooks, Director of Outreach and Public Engagement with the group People For the American Way
discusses the continuing national debate that has followed the most recent police shootings of African American men in North Carolina and Oklahoma.

2) Kennette Benedict, Senior Advisor and former Executive Director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, assesses the election year debate and position of the presidential candidates on the whether or not the U.S. should adopt a nuclear weapons no-first use pledge.

3) Kevin Alexander Gray, author, activist and organizer of the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project in South Carolina, talks about the Black Lives Matter movement response to recent police shootings in North Carolina and Oklahoma and his recent article, "Charlotte, Football and Black Lives," published in the September 23rd edition of the Progressive Magazine.

4) Jason Fredlund and Rev. Erica Richmond, part of the core leadership team of the Hartford, CT chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, (SURJ,) who talks about the group's mission to organize White people for racial justice through community mobilization and education. SURJ moves the White community to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

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