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) Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University discusses her the impact of the US, Israeli war on average Iranian people not generally discussed in our media, as explored in Professor Sohrabi's "These Are the True Things" blog focused on stories written by Iranians coping with life inside the Islamic Republic.

2) David Daley, senior fellow in communications at Fair Vote, and author of "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections," discusses the ongoing efforts by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans to implement voter suppression laws and policies, including Senate debate on the "Save America Act," and the president's most recent executive order that instructs the federal government to compile a list of eligible citizens who can vote in each state, and instructs the US Postal Service to only transmit mail-in ballots to people on that list.

3) Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, discusses the multiple and unprecedented instances Trump administration corruption that Revolving Door Project has been investigating during the president's 2nd term. He'll address the need for accountability, and what government reforms will be necessary to prevent such blatant executive branch abuses in the future, as what followed the Nixon era Watergate scandal.

4) Daniella Hobbs a member of the Hartford Jewish Organizing Collective, talks about her group organizing a Passover Seder on Tuesday, April 7th outside the ICE Regional Field Office in Hartford "to demand ICE out of Connecticut." The Seder will include music and ritual elements adapted to modern times, including a recitation of ten modern-day plagues and four cups dedicated to collective liberation. In observing this year's Passover the group is demanding freedom for our neighbors held by ICE.

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