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Counterpoint
Original Aired:
Monday, March 15th, 2010
8:04PM to 10:01PM
Duration:
1 hour, 57 minutes
Posted:
Monday, March 15th, 2010 8:05PM
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Episode: 03.15.10 Counterpoint Host Scott Harris inteviews Eleanor Smeal on abortion in health care reform debate; Gail Collins on her book, "When Everything Changed;" John Feffer on Japanese-American Relations over U.S. bases; Dahr Jamail on Iraq Elections
Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM,Bridgeport, CT and WPKM 88.7 FM Montauk, NY between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming at http://wpkn.org
1) Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, who discusses the attempts to further restrict women's access to abortion in the current Congressional debate on health care reform legislation.
2) New York Times columnist Gail Collins discuss her book, "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present."
3) John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, examines the issue of U.S. military bases on Okinawa and the documents that have recently surfaced about secret Japanese-U.S. agreements on nuclear weapons.
4) Dahr Jamail, award-winning independent journalist and author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq,” assesses results of the March 7th Iraqi parliamentary election and the status of U.S. withdrawal plans.
5) Brian Petronella, President of Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union and UFCW International Vice President, discusses the union's recent negotiations with supermarket giant Stop and Shop.
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Show: Counterpoint
Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM,Bridgeport, CT and WPKM 88.7 FM Montauk, NY between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming at http://wpkn.org