COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) James Zogby, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute discusses the effort at last week's Democratic Party nominating convention in Chicago to address US policy supporting Israel's brutal war and mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, as well as the threat of a regional war, and Israel's latest lethal military raids into the West Bank, the largest in 20 years.

2) Nora Benavidez, Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights with the media democracy group Free Press, talks about the coalition led by Free Press calling on corporate media outlets to report on rising authoritarianism and threats to democracy during the 2024 election campaign, covering six practices the media should adhere to during moments of crisis.

3) Claudia Strauss, the Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Pitzer College, and the author of "Making Sense of Public Opinion," Professor Strauss talks about her new book titled, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic," where she unpacks the relationship of the American worker to their job, and explains how inaccurate popular conceptions lead to poor policy decisions, a threadbare social safety net, and an inability to prepare for the coming technological changes to the workplace.

4) Mark Thiede, owner of Two Wrasslin' Cats Coffee House in East Haddam CT, who talks about the non-profit group which operates his unique community cafe whose noble and big-hearted mission is, "to support inclusion, racial justice, reproductive freedom and the right to love and be loved."

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