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Show:
Counterpoint
Original Aired:
Monday, July 12th, 2010
8:10PM to 10:01PM
Duration:
1 hour, 51 minutes
Posted:
Monday, July 12th, 2010 8:00PM
Tags:
haiti
castro
congress
obama
security
cuba
earthquake
immigration
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social
arizona
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Episode: 07.12.10 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the campaign to make deep cuts to Social Security; Cuba's plan to release of 52 political prisoners; the link between immigration and trade policies; dire conditions in Haiti 6 months after the earthquake
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) Barbara Kennelly, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security, discusses the conservative political campaign now being launched to push for large cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
2) Michell Chase, a research associate with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) assesses the Cuban government's decision to release 52 political prisoners, in the context of the island nation's economic situation and the future of U.S.- Cuban relations and the 50-year old economic embargo.
3) Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, looks at the Obama administration's lawsuit against Arizona's new law which the government says impinges on federal immigration enforcement - while also examining the effects of Free trade policies on the number of people attempting to immigrate from poor nations to the U.S.
4) Kim Ives, a writer and editor with the newspaper Haiti Liberté and documentary filmmaker, reports on the conditions in Haiti 6 months after the poor nation's devastating earthquake which killed an estimated 230,000 people and made 1.5 million homeless.
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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