Tag: 07.22.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses JD Vance's extremist position on abortion, ICJ rules Israeli occupation of Palestine illegal, As Biden drops out of campaign, what's next, Advocating CT climate crisis legislation |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Arizona Court Activates 1864 Draconian Abortion Ban; Israel Iran Attack Counterattack Could Trigger Regional War; EPA has New Standards for PFAS chemicals in drinking water; Radical Connecticut People's History |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Corporate media coverage of Election 2024; Humanitarian crisis & starvation in Gaza; Addressing media bias in reporting on Gaza & Palestine; CT bill supports local news outlets w state ad revenue |
Tag: 11.20.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's war in Gaza and mass killing of Palestinians with Ralph Nader; The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting & US China relations; Israel's spy network on US college campuses & the new CT chapter of Third Act |
Tag: 09.25.23: Mike Merli (fill-in for Counterpoint with Scott Harris) discusses Global Fossil Fuel Addiction Feeding the Ukraine War; Campaign to End Wrongful Convictions in CT; Protests Greet Netanyahu as he visits the U.S. |
Tag: 06.05.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Winners & losers in debt ceiling deal; Proposal for drone moratorium in Ukraine War; SCOTUS weakens EPA Clean Water Act enforcement; GOP book bans come to Connecticut |
Tag: 05.01.23: Mike Merli filling-in for Scott Harris discusses: The US Palestine Museum's mission; Making Religious Spaces Safer for Queer Folks; 2023 Gandhi Peace Award Recipient Kali Akuno; Examining the State of Commutations in Connecticut |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Texas judge's ruling banning an abortion drug; Backlash against the GOP's extremist agenda; CT workers equity agenda lobby day in Hartford; Climate Defiance plan to blockade White House Correspondents Dinner |
Tag: 11.14.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses major issues in the 2022 midterm election; the importance of the youth vote in blocking the GOP red wave; How polls & media spin got the midterm election wrong; CT Progressives won big in Nov 8th election |
Tag: 03.28.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses chances for peace talks in Ukraine, GOP race-baiting SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Humanitarian crisis in Yemen's War, The fight for affordable housing in Connecticut |
Tag: 01.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court; Dangerous increase in rhetoric in Ukraine crisis risks conflict; California debates single payer healthcare; CT climate march 2/8/22 |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Senate failure to pass voting rights bills; Challenging insurrectionist's right to run for public office; Koch Network's war on COVID public health measures; CT campaigns to ban prison solitary confinement |
Tag: 11.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's embrace of violence endangering democracy; Nov. 15th Cuba protests fizzle; Millions of Afghan civilians face famine; Campaign to preserve Remington Woods Bridgeport CT green space |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how Big $ in politics is killing Biden's human infrastructure bill; Pandora Papers investigation into billionaire tax cheats; the Facebook Users Union's #FireZuck campaign & Fixing CT's affordable housing crisis |
Tag: 06.21.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Biden-Putin summit meeting; Fascism's Global Spread; the campaign to pass "For The People Act" in the U.S. Senate & New Connecticut zoning reform legislation |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses investigation of wealthiest Americans tax evasion; Trump DOJ spying on journalists, lawmakers; Campesino elected president of Peru & CT poised to legalize recreational use of marijuana |
Tag: 05.24.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for lasting peace in Israel-Palestine; Countering the GOP threat to US democracy; Opposition to CDC's relaxation of COVID Precautions; Push to expand voting rights in Connecticut |
Tag: 05.10.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals to tax the rich; Stopping tax avoidance by the wealthiest; CIA plot to kill Raul Castro revealed & Desegregate CT pushes statewide zoning reform bill |
Tag: 04.26.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the effort to repeal the Senate filibuster; Florida's "anti-riot" law that criminalizes protest; the campaign to make Washington, D.C. the nation's 51st state; the push for public option healthcare in CT |
Tag: 04.05.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hedge Funds and the Green New Deal; Boot Camps for Destroying Democracy; Petition Drive to Recall Georgia Governor Kemp; "Unrig Bridgeport" campaign to end corruption, restore democracy |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the "For the People Act" & democracy; Amazon workers union drive in Alabama; White supremacist ongoing threat to democracy & Stop Solitary CT campaign to end solitary confinement in CT |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Republican Party's turn to fascism; Concern Biden will continue endless U.S. wars; Rush Limbaugh's malevolent influence on US conservative movement; Opposition to CT Gov Lamont's new COVID vaccination plan |
Tag: 02.22.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP push for voter suppression laws; Pressuring Biden to cancel student debt; Haiti protests demand resignation of Jovenel Moise; CT Pushes for Housing as a Right |
Tag: 02.08.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ben & Jerry's campaign on ending police qualified immunity; Trump impeachment, GOP & democracy; Biden foreign policy & Re-prioritizing CT state budget and taxes |
Tag: 01.25.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's proposals on immigration reform; Holding corporations accountable for supporting GOP insurrection; What's next for pro-Trump militia groups; Schools, Race and Housing in Connecticut |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Pro-Trump domestic terrorist assault on the US Capitol; Republican Party complicity with the insurrection; Trump & GOP legislators must be held accountable; Mubarak Soulemane's family's struggle for justice |
Tag: 11.23.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's attack on the U.S. Constitution; Repairing our broken system of checks and balances; Assessing the threat of Trump-GOP fascism/authoritarianism & CCAG campaigns for CT public healthcare option |
Tag: 08.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump attacks on Post Office; Federal COVID failure designed to sacrifice blue states; Congress must vote funds to run election amid COVID challenge & CT coalition demands transformative systemic change |
Tag: 07.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret federal forces repressing Portland social justice protests, the coming US eviction crisis; Book discussion: "White Christian Privilege"; CT Police Accountability legislation moves to State Senate |
Tag: 06.08.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses steps that must be taken for genuine policing reform; Trump's dangerous military response to mass US protests; Trump Coronavirus Death Clock & Connecticut Black Lives Matter activists on local cases |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Organizing for structural change triggered by COVID-19; Report: "Billionaire Bonanza 2020" how the current crisis exacerbates inequality; May Day worker strikes boost labor; CT Campaign to secure mail-in ballots |
Tag: 03.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the government's COVID-19 response, The impact of inequality during the pandemic; Urgent need for universal healthcare & Assessing Connecticut's response to the Coronavirus threat |
Tag: 03.09.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Bernie Sander's presidential campaign; U.S. attempting to extradite Wikileaks' Julian Assange from UK; Coronavirus and Medicare For All & CT Working Families Party 2020 legislative agenda |
Tag: 02.17.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of tyranny posed by Pres. Trump & AG Bill Barr; Trump Adm proposes deep cuts to Social Security & Medicare; Bernie Sanders' relation with the term socialism & CT Marijuana legalization effort |
Tag: 12.23.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the consequences of a sham impeachment trial in the Senate; Court rules ObamaCare unconstitutional; Trump's plan to cut Social Security disability benefits; Campaign to bar ICE agents from CT court house |
Tag: 12-09-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the latest in the Trump impeachment inquiry; Trump cuts to 700,000 SNAP/Food Stamp recipients; White House-Congressional talks on NAFTA 2.O/USMCA; CT Common Cause legislative agenda |
Tag: 12.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Goals of the UN Climate Summit in Madrid; the Crisis in U.S. political parties; Media attacks on progressive Democratic candidates; Assessing CT Governor Ned Lamont's climate and energy agenda |
Tag: 09.02.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Britain's Brexit crisis; Trump regime's effort to deport severely ill children; Assessing labor support for the Green New Deal & CT Mobilizes for Global Climate Strike Sept. 20th |
Tag: 07.22.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Never Again Action protests to close Trump's inhumane refugee camps; Trump's racist comments attacking "The Squad"; Trump admin deregulation of polluting industries & Medicare4All CT forum 8-17-19 |
Tag: Guest hosts Melinda Tuhus & Richard Hill discuss a public health care option for CT; the growing evidence of natural gas fracking health impacts; Trump Iran crisis moves US closer to war & Trump detention of children shameless violation of human rights |
Tag: 05.27.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Espionage Act indictment of Julian Assange; Trump confrontation w Iran could lead to war; UN Report warns of impending extinction of 1 million species & CT Paid Family Medical Leave Act moves forward |
Tag: 05.20.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the arrest of 4 occupiers in Venezuela's US Embassy; The risk of US war with Iran; Why new abortion restrictions disproportionately impact women of color & Public option health insurance proposed for CT |
Tag: 03.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses charges of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar; US government surveillance of immigration rights activists; Report from Iraq after ISIS & Youth Climate Strike in CT & worldwide March 15th |
Tag: 03.04.29: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the failure of the Trump-Kim summit meeting; proposed tax on social media ads to fund journalism; the ongoing crisis in Venezuela; Connecticut progressive legislative agenda 2019 |
Tag: 01.28.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the end game of Trump's post-shutdown negotiations; US intervention in Venezuela's political & economic crisis; Ending partisan gerrymandering; CT push to legalize recreational marijuana use & sales |
Tag: 01.14.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legality of Trump declaring emergency to build his wall, Consequences of the government shutdown, Media false equivalencies in Trump wall debate, CT progressive agenda under new governor Ned Lamont |
Tag: 11.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election; Protecting the Mueller probe after Trump fires AG Jeff Sessions; a progressive agenda for the Democratic House & Connecticut election results |
Tag: 10.29.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the rise of hate crimes in the age of Trump; Trump plan to pull out of the INF nuclear weapons treaty with Russia; Brazil's new extreme right president & Working Families Party midterm election GOTV |
Tag: 10.15.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new UN report w dire warnings re global warming; the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia; Warning on a new "religious freedom" manifesto; CT Green Party Sec of State candidate Mike DeRosa |
Tag: 09.24.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression and the Voting Rights Act; Kavanaugh SCOTUS nomination & sex abuse charges, Lawsuits re: voter purges nationwide; Socialist Action candidate ballot petition chaos |
Tag: Connecticut Forests |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Facebook online censorship; Cohen guilty pea, Manafort guilty verdict threatens Trump presidency; Nationwide Strike to End Prison Slavery & Thousand Doors for Justice day of action in CT |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents an excerpt of Timothy Snyder talk on tyranny; & discusses the ascent of the Democratic Socialists of America; Connecticut primary election results and President Trump's now cancelled military parade |
Tag: Vacations |
Tag: State of the ARTS with Tom Holehan - Connecticut Critics Circle award nominations |
Tag: 06.09.18: Resistance Round Table co-hosts Scott Harris and Melinda Tuhus discuss youth activism with Sam Rosenberg, a sixth grade student at New Haven CT's Cold Spring School & Ben Martin an activist with the group 350 CT |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's likely announcement withdrawing the US from the Iran nuclear deal; Trump, Pruitt Dismantle the EPA; Trump scandal circus exposes contempt for rule of law; CT Working Families Party 2018 Legislative Agenda |
Tag: 04.02.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump administration efforts to privatize the VA; Inclusion of a controversial citizenship question in the 2020 Census; Assessing Trump's trade policies & NAFTA negotiations & CT energy policies |
Tag: 03.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for the planned Trump-Kim Jong Un Summit; The hidden history of the 2nd Amendment & NRA; A teacher's view on schools, guns and safety & Connecticut moves to preserve Net Neutrality |
Tag: State of the ARTS with Tom Holehan Best Connecticut Theatre 2017 |
Tag: Talking Cricket On WPKN |
Tag: 10.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gun control groups' response to Las Vegas mass shooting; Status of Puerto Rico recovery; Trump's move to decertify Iran nuclear deal, CT budget impasse impact on state's disabled |
Tag: 09.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Election Integrity Commission; Supreme Court case on partisan gerrymandering; John Nichol's new book, "Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse" & Connecticut's budget impasse |
Tag: 08.21.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump and nuclear war, Charlottesville racist violence; DOJ demand for data on visitors to anti-Trump website; America's new fascist threat & CT anti-racist organizing |
Tag: 07.10.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses protests on climate and other issues at the G20 summit in Germany; DEA operations in Honduras kill civilians; Flash Mob at White House Demands Trump Impeachment; Addressing CT State budget deadlock |
Tag: State of the Arts with Terrence Mann of Connecticut Repertory Theatre |
Tag: 06.26.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses consequences of GOP healthcare bill; Disability Rights Activists Protest Trumpcare; Corporate dominance of US politics fuels rising inequality & CT Indivisible group resists Trump agenda |
Tag: 05.08.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dark repercussions of the GOP healthcare bill; Economic issues in the French election; Trump signs "religious liberty" executive order; CT Roundtable on Climate and Jobs campaign update |
Tag: CT ROCKS! w/ Bob D'Aprile |
Tag: 05.01.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses Trump's "tax reform" proposal; Trump abets corporate takeover of federal govt apparatus; Women peacemakers call for talks w North Korea; Action Together CT mobilizes opposition to Trump agenda |
Tag: CT ROCKS! w/ Bob D'Aprile (Fill-in for Icon) |
Tag: CT ROCKS! Radio w/ Bob D'Aprile (Fill-in for Simon Hunter) |
Tag: CT ROCKS! w/ Bob D'Aprile (Fill-in for Icon) |
Tag: 02.27.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the results of the DNC chair election; Trump/Pruitt aim to dismantle EPA; Our Revolution's mission and game plan & CCAG 2017 Legislative Agenda |
Tag: 02.20.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what President Trump has in common with fascists in US history; Contradictions and confusion on Trump administration's Middle East policy; Movement to Impeach Trump & CT Green Party agenda for 2017 |
Tag: CONNETICUT ROCKS! w/ Bob D'Aprile (Fill-in for Radio Free Arcadia: Tom Poplawski) |
Tag: Connecticut Rocks!: Bob D'Aprile (fill-in for The A List: Sam Hopkins) |
Tag: Free Form Frenzy + Connecticut Rocks: Bob D'Aprile (fill-in for The A List: Sam Hopkins) |
Tag: Bob D'Aprile (Fill-in for Liz Becker) |
Tag: 11.28.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses racism in the incoming Trump administration; election recounts in key battleground states; 2016 CT legislative election results; US media coverage of presidential election campaign |
Tag: Connecticut Rocks: Bob D'Aprile | guests: Thomas Perez, James Mauri, Ryan Porter of Bud Collins Trio, Laura of Western Estates |
Tag: Dave Hogan Radio Thursday 10/6/2016 |
Tag: Connecticut Rocks! the 60s special: Bob D'Aprile |
Tag: State of the ARTS with guest Tom Holehan, Resident critic and co-founder of Connecticut Critics Circle |
Tag: 09.19.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the campaign to win Edward Snowden a pardon; opposition to the $66 Billion Monsanto-Bayer merger; the banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline & CT's landmark court case on equal education funding |
Tag: 09.12.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses democracy reform in the presidential debates; the ongoing campaign to defeat the TPP trade bill; the growth of renewable energy sources & a landmark case on CT's unequal education system |
Tag: 08.29.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the "Alt Right" movement & the Trump campaign; the tragic ongoing Syrian civil war; investigation into election 2016 vote theft & the campaign to stop a proposed UI CT electric rate hike |
Tag: Bob D'Aprile--Connecticut Rocks! (Fill-in for Rich Kaminsky -- Off-Beat!) |
Tag: 08.15.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Hillary Clinton's embrace of Neoconservative supporters; Trump attendance at extremist anti-gay Orlando event, Montreal's World Social Forum; CT Working Families Party celebrates five primary victories |
Tag: 06.13.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign offshoot, Brand New Congress; #WeThePeople campaign finance reform bills; New labor coalition on climate change & Ethics concern re: Cigna-Anthem insurance co. merger |
Tag: 05.30.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the global movements confronting the causes of economic inequality; U.S. drone wars; The extremist appointed Israeli Defense minister & CT budget cuts & plan to privatize group homes for the disabled |
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses weapons in space; President Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, Japan and the effort to abolish nuclear weapons; Chris Hedges on the 2016 election & the Green Party of CT 2016 campaign plans |
Tag: 05.09.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP candidate Donald Trump, Racism and Class; Growing opposition to the TTIP free trade treaty; The murder of Berta Caceres & US aid to Honduras & CT's budget crisis & imminent cuts to social services |
Tag: 04.25.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the issues in CT's Democratic Party Pres. Primary election w surrogates of Clinton & Sander's campaigns; U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship; 6th Anniv. of Gulf oil spill & Lawsuit against FDA over GE Salmon |
Tag: 04.04.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the successes of the Fight For $15 movement; Brazilian corruption crisis or opposition party coup?; Climate Change & Geo-Engineering; CT budget crisis and threat of massive state-employee layoffs |
Tag: 03.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression w journalist Greg Palast; the mission of the new group Bank Whistleblowers United; Political violence in Honduras & Opposition to hospital consolidation in Connecticut |
Tag: Mic Check |
Tag: 02.08.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the fight against the TPP trade agreement; Social Security in the election campaign; UN panel's ruling in Julian Assange case & Union representatives respond to CT Gov. Malloy's budget cut & layoff plan |
Tag: 01.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Democratic candidate's debate on single payer health care; Excerpt of MLK Jr. speech on, "The Other America," Black Lives Matter protests on MLK holiday weekend & GE's move from CT to Boston/taxation |
Tag: State of the ARTS with James Moran of Connecticut Cabaret Theatre |
Tag: 11.23.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the links between Saudi Arabia and ISIS; Challenging the efficacy of a narrow military response to the Paris attacks; the US debate on mass government surveillance & Victories for clean election systems |
Tag: 11.02.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Syria's civil war; Bernie Sanders' advocacy of democratic socialism; New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's politics; Labor struggle at Danbury & New Milford CT hospitals |
Tag: 09.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Iran nuclear agreement; DOJ changes on prosecuting corporate crime; Prosecution of Guatemalan president & Connecticut initiatives on climate change |
Tag: 08.24.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses 'America's Journey for Justice' march; an examination of robots developed for use in the military; New documents re: AT&T and NSA surveillance; Proposed CT bill imposing penalties on low wage employers |
Tag: Community Programming: The Cultural Alliance of Farfield County |
Tag: State of the ARTS with Matthew Pugliese Connecticut Repertory Theatre |