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) David Sirota, political commentator, syndicated newspaper columnist, who served as a senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. David, author of several books including, "Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything," discusses his recent article, "Dems Give Unanimous Consent to Trump," which focused on the federal coronavirus aid passed thus far, what's been left out for workers and the big rewards for GOP corporate donors. He'll also talk about his new TMI newsletter project.

2) George Lakey, recently retired from Swarthmore College where he was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change and managed the Global Nonviolent Action Database research project, discusses his recent article, "The Pandemic is an Opportunity for Major Change — We Need to Get Ready to Come out Charging," drawing from of the most relevant information for organizing in the current crisis found in his new book co-written with Berit Lakey, titled, “Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.”

3) Kevin E. Grisham, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Research and Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, discusses the ways in which extremist racist and white supremacist groups have been organizing around the coronavirus pandemic, how local/federal officials have responded -- and what citizens can do to counter these groups and their toxic ideology.

4) Hortencia Vega, a room attendant of 25 years at the Stamford, CT Sheraton hotel, a member of UNITE-HERE Local 217 Hospitality Workers union -- and Isadora Milanez a Local 217 organizer, talk about the hotel workers' current struggle demanding that the hotel owner restore their health insurance, which all workers lost on April 1st.

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