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Tag: 11.18.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses How traitor Trump won 2024 election; Trump's bizarre cabinet picks meet little GOP resistance; Trump laying groundwork to establish Mafia State; House bill will give Trump weapon to attack his enemies
Tag: 11.11.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses how members of Trump's cult will respond his election win; Harris' loss linked to ignoring working class economic concerns; Assessing media's coverage of election; Resisting Trump's mass deportation plan
Tag: 11.04.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Worries that Biden Gaza policy will lose votes; Women's pivotal role in election 2024; Disinformation floods election campaign; Election will decide future of Social Security and Medicare
Tag: 09.30.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Israel's attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon; Sabotaging the election in Georgia; Immigration a toxic issue in election 2024; The madness of US Sec of State Antony Blinken
Tag: 09.09.24: Counterpoint Host Scott Harris discusses Mark Green's new book The Inflection Election; University repression of student Gaza war protests; Our Climate Future: Apocalypse or Utopia Portland Maine city council divests from Israel
Tag: 08.12.24 Counterpoint host Scott Harris: Tim Walz's Progressive MN Legislative Record; Kamala can Neutralize SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Ruling; To End Ukraine War US & Russia Must Talk; Project 2025's Blueprint for Environment & Climate Catastrophe
Tag: 08.05.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democratic Party isolation from working families; Israeli assassinations raise threat of wider Middle East war; Israel's mass murder of Gaza's Palestinian journalists; Venezuela's disputed election
Tag: 07.29.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses The Coming Vicious GOP Attacks on Kamala Harris; Project 2025 is a Christian Nationalist Agenda; Trump's Depraved Love of Nuclear Weapons; Democratic Party Dysfunction Led to Disastrous Biden Candidacy
Tag: 07.15.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris on GOP attempts to use failed assassination to shut down criticism of Trump; Left victory in French elections offers lessons to US; Poll finds Americans reject Project 2025; Voters of Tomorrow target youth vote
Tag: 06.10.24: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Mexico's historic election of first female president; Intl Criminal Court targets Israeli & Hamas leaders; Effort to revive nuclear power; GOP Georgia voter suppression scheme moves to battleground states
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses new information in the assassination Malcolm X; A vision for a Palestinian-Israel confederated state; Julian Assange battles to stop UK extradition to US; Biden considers embracing Trump immigration policies
Tag: 11.27.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 8th Circuit Court ruling eroding the Voting Rights Act; Activists push for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza; Biden's dismal polls alarm those working to defeat Trump in 24'; CCAG's 52nd Anniversary
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses American Jews' relationship with Israel; Ohio voters pass abortion access referendum; Artificial Intelligence: dangers and opportunities; Bridgeport CT mayoral election marred by ballot fraud
Tag: 08.28.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses New report on widening gap between CEO and worker pay; Confronting GOP's embrace of political violence; Guatemala elects anti-corruption activist; CT rallies opposition to health insurance rate hike
Tag: 07.31.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern that Joe Biden is a risky candidate in 2024; Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the crosshairs of war; Fossil fuel corps must pay for climate crisis; New Haven's 'Interfaith Service Day'
Tag: 04-24-23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Dominion Fox Lawsuit Settlement Won't Protect Democracy; SCOTUS Justice Thomas gathering ethics scandal; Report reveals Israel colluded w 16' Trump campaign; PFAS chemicals found in CT water systems
Tag: 12.12.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the critical Moore v. Harper Supreme. Court case; Voter suppression in Georgia the media missed; Massive Pentagon budget passed by the House & Nursing homes unprepared for ongoing COVID pandemic
Tag: 11.21.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the midterm election & ongoing GOP threat to democracy; Is DOJ appointment of a special prosecutor another delay to Trump accountability; Assessing the COP-27 climate summit; Poll workers under threat
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: WPKN's Alternative Election Coverage -- 2022
Tag: 11.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the extremist that won Israel's Nov. 1st election; Polls cannot capture the electorate that votes in US midterms; Billionaires break records w money in midterm elex; Housing on the ballot in Long Island
Tag: 10.31.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Diplomacy as a path to end Ukraine war; Progressives can help defeat fascistic GOP; GOP's anti-democratic agenda mimics repressive regimes abroad; Media's elex horse race coverage ignores critical issues
Tag: 10.17.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Extreme US wealth inequality & policy remedies; House January 6th Comm Hearing & waiting for accountability for Trump; GOP policies would weaken or end Social Security, Medicare; Behind Haiti's crisis
Tag: 10.03.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the dangerous new phase in the Ukraine War; Deadly hurricanes and climate change; Polls got it wrong in 1st round of Brazil election; Resisting culture war book bans & classroom censorship in CT schools
Tag: 09.12.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses corporate role in Jackson water crisis; Brazil's Oct election could make or break Amazon; Reduced US life expectancy tied w health insurance system failure; Protest condemns COVID spread in CT prisons
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Christian nationalism & GOP embrace of January 6th insurrection violence; Reforming US electoral college system; Election of Colombia's 1st leftist president; Climate activists protest at Travelers golf tourney
Tag: 06.06.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Stopping disinformation ahead of 2022 midterm election, UnFoxMyCableBox campaign targets Fox News toxic rhetoric, Questioning why Fed attacks wages to stop inflation; Tracking pipelines & US oil wars
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses right wing targeting pro-choice protesters for arrest; "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting;" The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Son of dictator wins Philippine election
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris presents Intl news coverage of leaked draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade ruling; Views on danger of escalation between the US & Russian in Ukraine war; Coronavirus Criminals & Colombia's May 29th Election
Tag: 04.25.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the forgotten Yemen War; GOP plot to steal the next election; UK moves to extradite Julian Assange to the US threatening press freedom, Justice for Mubarak campaign wins indictment of CT State Trooper
Tag: 04.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Double standards in international law and human rights exposed by Russia's war in Ukraine; Combating GOP classroom censorship; Debt Collective demands Biden cancel student debt; Amazon workers union win
Tag: 04.04.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Ukraine conflict & danger or nuclear war; DOJ Inaction on Trump coup attempt condemned; Biden proposes minimum tax on billionaires; Union wins historic organizing drive at Amazon
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: 12.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Manchin's opposition to Biden's Build Back Better plan; Chile's historic presidential election; Book examines the 'privatization of everything'; How dark money bought a Supreme Court seat
Tag: 12.06.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Mississippi's abortion law being considered by the Supreme Court; Opposition to a new program that could privatize Medicare; Progressive candidate wins Honduras election; Venezuela's 11/21 election
Tag: 11.29.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Looming deadline for passage of Voting Rights legislation; Study advises progressive candidates how to connect with voters; America's wealthiest own US tax code; Comedy circuit rife with sexual misconduct
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses prospects for progress at UN climate summit; Post-mortem for progressives on the 2021 election; The need to organize outside the Democratic Party; Campaign to close down New England's last coal-fired power plant
Tag: 09.27.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legislation to protect democracy from GOP attack; Global vaccination shortfall crisis; Activists Pressure Biden on Climate Action & Brutalization of Haitian refugees at US southern border
Tag: 08.30.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the movement to protect US democracy; Afghanistan and war profiteering; Opposition to Biden nomination of Rahm Emanuel as US ambassador to Japan; Chevron's prosecution of Steven Donziger
Tag: 08.23.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan-American community's demands to Joe Biden; Holding politicians accountable for COVID malpractice; Aiding Haiti in this moment of crisis; Working Families Party gears up for Bridgeport city election
Tag: 07.05.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Exxon lobbyist reveals how company blocks climate legislation; the privatization of Medicare; Supreme Court ruling further erodes Voting Rights Act; Arrest of opposition leaders in Nicaragua
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: 05.31.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP's ongoing insurrection and attack on Democracy; Challenging the US-Israel special relationship; ExxonMobil on losing end of stockholder rebellion & Challenging Muslim discrimination in CT prisons
Tag: 04.12.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP voter suppression bills across the US; What's going on in Afghanistan, America's longest war; CT based-Sturm Ruger gun sales to Israel & Gun violence prevention activist's work with faith communities
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: 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: 12.28.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the inadequacies of the COVID relief bill; Lawsuits launched against Google; Proposal to establish a federal infrastructure bank & Post Cards To Voters: an electoral success story
Tag: 12.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Post-Trump threats to US democracy; Progressive group launch "No Honeymoon For Biden" campaign; Trump's 'herd immunity' policies infected millions; Bridgeport Mutual Aid provides COVID assistance
Tag: 12.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the urgent need for equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines; Trump-GOP Sedition Continues Attempted Election Coup; Ranked Choice Voting Gains in Election 2020; Protest Demands Yale Pay Fair Taxes
Tag: 12.07.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ongoing threat of Trump-GOP authoritarianism; Reforms needed to respond to Trump corruption; Media democracy agenda for the Biden administration; Our Revolution working to push Biden left
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: 11.11.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses why 70 million voted for Trump; How to abolish the undemocratic Electoral College; Daniel Ellsberg explains why accountability for Trump is critical & How Georgia's voters were purged and restored
Tag: 11.02.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the national election protection plan; US media coverage of the 2020 election campaign; How Trump's cult following will respond if he loses; Scenarios for GOP election theft.
Tag: 10.26.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a lawsuit against Trump regime voter intimidation; Trump DOJ interference in election vote counts; Campaign to prevent military election intervention & Why mass mobilization can protect the election
Tag: 10.19.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses dark money influencing direction of Supreme Court; Pres. Trump's mental health status; Voter suppression in Indian Country; CT Working Families Party election agenda, Ted Glick's Defeat Trump 30-day fast
Tag: 10-12-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of right wing extremist violence during the Nov. 3rd election; Bolivia's 10-18-20 election; Trump, COVID and the nuclear football and the call for opening the presidential debates
Tag: 10.05.20 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the threat of white supremacist violence in the 2020 election; the deepening US economic crisis; Supreme Court confirmation battle & New WPKN programs
Tag: 09.28.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the police killing of Breonna Taylor; Leak of Trump's income taxes; The value of international observers in US 2020 Election; "The Connecticut Man Who Led a Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt"
Tag: 09.21.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses concern re a pre-election conflict with Iran; Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy; Trump's war on Social Security; Protecting the November election; Trump's criminal sabotage of US pandemic response
Tag: 09.14.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the coalition formed to protect the election results; Refugees created by US Post-9/11 wars; Warnings to progressives of a 2nd Trump election victory; Normalization of Israel, UAE, Bahrain relations
Tag: 08-31-20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses QAnon conspiracy theories and GOP support; Kenosha and Portland BLM Protests and deadly street violence; Will Trump seek foreign conflict to boost re-election?; Build The Wall arrests & Kris Kobach
Tag: 08.17.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Joe Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate; Countering Trump's sabotage of the US Post Office; Trump regime's war against nuclear arms control & Demand for a new trial for Jamil Al-Amin
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: 07.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's push to reopen schools; US economic system's failure to deal with COVID pandemic; Biden-Sanders Task Force tackles climate change; Author Greg Palast on his new book, "How Trump Stole 2020."
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Georgia's primary election disaster; Progress Since 1992's L.A. Rebellion; Rev. Dr. William Barber's Sermon on Reconstruction; In current protests media focus on race but not class
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump adm failure to address pandemic, Ensuring Vote-By-Mail is a safe option in Nov election; Maya Cummings candidate for MD's Congressional 7th Dist; Lives on the line for SEIU Healthcare 1199 NE union members
Tag: 04.13.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses massive unemployment leading to loss of health insurance; Racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths; Bernie Sanders progressive legacy; Calls for COVID-19 debt cancellation for poorest nations
Tag: 09.16.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Afghan peace talks, Saudi oil field attack; Israel's election; Trump extremist fed judge nominee Steven Menashi & Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins
Tag: 08.05.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the debate on Medicare for All; Trump administration proposal to deny 3.1 million food insecure Americans food stamps; Anti-Fascist organizing in Tennessee & Two mass shootings kill 31 in 13 hours
Tag: 03.25.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the conclusion of the Mueller probe into Trump-Russia Collusion; Trump's recognition of Israel's control of disputed Golan Heights; Assessing Bernie Sanders' 2016 & 2020 presidential candidacy
Tag: 01.07.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's border wall & govt. shutdown; House Dems' new H.R.1 voting rights/ethics bill; Net Neutrality update & Bernie Sanders' delegates network reactivated
Tag: Resistance Round Table -- Dec. 8, 2018
Tag: 11.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new Democratic Congress & Medicare4All; General Motors' Layoff Announcement; US tear gasses immigrants at Mexico border; List of 15 articles of impeachment for Trump
Tag: 11.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses climate activist sit-in of Nancy Pelosi's office; Congress could end the Yemen War; Ranked Choice Voting succeeds in Maine; Addiction recovery support in CT & Petition seeks Khashoggi's body from Saudis
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: 10.22.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses voter suppression across the U.S.; the Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi and state assassinations; GOP vows to cut Social Security, Medicare; Action Together CT electoral plan & CT Univ. link to Saudi $$$
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: 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: Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis Episode 41: Cultural Reckoning
Tag: 07.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump-Putin Summit; Mexican President-elect Lopez Obrador's program; Ireland divests from fossil fuel industry & U.S. Weapons in Space
Tag: 06.11.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's violation of Iran nuclear agreement & current talks w North Korea; The Commonbound conference; Mexico's July 1st election & Ceasefire in Afghanistan
Tag: 05.21.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "War Cabinet" & the threat of new US conflicts; Campaign to preserve Net Neutrality; Venezuela's controversial presidential election; Unions oppose CT community college consolidation plan
Tag: 03.26.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Cambridge Analytica & digital privacy; US role in Saudi Arabia's Yemen War; Dangerous War hawk John Bolton as Trump NSC Adviser; Speeches from Hartford, CT March for Our Lives rally
Tag: 02.12.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses increased military spending in the federal budget; deteriorating human rights conditions in Honduras; The new Poor Peoples' Campaign; California's progressive governor 1939-1943
Tag: 02.05.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Nunes Trump-Russia memo; Important court rulings on challenges to gerrymandering; Legislation to prevent Trump pre-emptive attack on N.Korea & State-by-state campaign to sideline Electoral College
Tag: 12.18.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the winners & losers in the GOP tax bill; Fallout from FCC repeal of Net Neutrality; Trump mixed messages on talks with North Korea; The ongoing post-election crisis in Honduras
Tag: 11.27.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Combating sexual harassment with a Women's Solidarity Network; Re-imagining Change to challenge Trump agenda; Surprise winner of Honduras presidential election; Timothy Snyder on threats to Democracy
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: 09.04.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the effort to save the DACA program; How deregulation exacerbated the destruction of flood ravaged Southeast Texas; The true face of Antifa & Fight For 15 movement Labor Day protests
Tag: 08-07-17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump DOJ plan to sue universities re "reverse discrimination"; GOP Immigration bill would deeply cut # legal migrants entering US;The crisis in Venezuela continues; NAACP Issues Missouri travel advisory
Tag: 06.12.17 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses investigations into multiple Trump scandals; People's Summit and the Progressive Agenda; Jeremy Corbyn & Labor Party's unexpected UK election gains; Chris Hedges on Current US Political Crisis
Tag: 05.29.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses legal basis for impeaching Trump; The Trump budget's threat to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid; Pentagon wants to send 5,000 more US troops to Afghanistan & Ralph Nader receives Gandhi Peace Award
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's "Election Integrity" commission; Trump's firing of FBI director poses threat to rule of law; Marine vet says Trump Afghan troop escalation bound to fail; Sustainable agriculture key to food sovereignty
Tag: 04.24.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump Justice Dept. plans to indict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Progressive Democrats mobilize to win special elections; Results of the French election & a speech by BDS founder Omar Barghouti
Tag: Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray - March 7, 2017
Tag: 03.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the links between Trump and Russia; Concern re: the demonization of Putin & Russia and where it may lead; Trump's 2nd Travel Ban executive order & The campaign to declare Bridgeport, CT a Sanctuary City
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP sabotage of election recounts in rustbelt states;Trump & GOP agenda to repeal ObamaCare; Trump's frightening tweets calling for a new nucelar arms race; CT Green Party Elex Results & push for public banking
Tag: WPKN's Post-election Issues Program -- Dec. 10, 2016
Tag: Interview with Bishop John Selders of Moral Monday CT
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: 11.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses progressive organizing under the coming Trump regime; Opposition rising to Trump proposed Muslim ban & registry; the issue of inequality in the 2016 election & Greg Palast on how the election was stolen
Tag: WPKN's Election night coverage
Tag: 11.14.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris assesses reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the election; How progressive activists are working to re-shape the Democratic Party; Campaign to nullify anti-democratic effect of the Electoral College; listener calls
Tag: WPKN Post-Election Special -- Nov. 12, 2016
Tag: Jason Bischoff-Wurstle -- The Relay "Election Night Tune-Out"
Tag: 11.07.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses election protection; Opposition campaign against Dakota Access pipeline; Electoral Reform; Maine ranked choice voting referendum; Voter intimidation threat election day
Tag: Recipe for the Trump Slimy and the Hillary Winner-take-all Cake
Tag: WPKN Election Issues show -- Oct. 29, 2016
Tag: 10.17.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the US election and fears of a new cold war with Russia; a post-election strategy for the U.S. progressive movement; Haiti disaster after Hurricane Matthew & Art & climate change in New Haven, CT
Tag: 10.10.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses challenges to voter suppression laws, Arrest of NSA contractor for alleged theft of classified data, the AltRight organizing on college campuses, listener calls re: 2016 US presidential election campaign
Tag: 10.03.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Gary Johnson's libertarian ideology and funding; masculinity in the presidential election; Post-impeachment politics in Brazil & Colombian voters reject proposed peace agreement
Tag: WPKN Election Issues show -- Sept. 10, 2016
Tag: 09.05.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's visit to Mexico; EU penalty against Apple for tax avoidance; Concern re: Sander's Our Revolution group; Yale Graduate students push for labor union & local protest re: N. Dakota pipleline
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: 08.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses economic inequality issues in the 2016 election; U.S. policy re: Honduras & Brazil; UFE's popular economic education & Views of the DNC from a Bernie Sanders' delegate
Tag: 07.04.16 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the need for a new U.S. peace movement after election 2016; Did recent SCOTUS ruling legalize corruption? New federal legislation addresses Puerto Rico's debt crisis & Hazards of nuclear power in space
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: 05.16.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Breaking Through Power conference w Ralph Nader; Impeachment of Brazilian Pres. Dilma Rousseff, the post-election future of the Bernie Sanders campaign & this year's annual Left Forum conference in NYC
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: 03.21.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses election 2016, the coming jobless economy, Donald Trump & fascism & the political parody: Billionaires & Oligarchs Opposed to Bernie Sanders
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: Listener call-ins on the 2016 election
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: 01.25.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Haiti's cancelled election; Flint, Michigan water crisis; Angela Davis on transformative justice; Gates Foundation funding of GMO PR campaign at Cornell University
Tag: Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray
Tag: 01.04.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses an important Supreme Court case, Jan. 2016, that could weaken labor unions; police violence, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement; Haiti's cancelled presidential election & listener calls
Tag: 12.28.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses a new study that links Fox News with racist attitudes; Spanish election results; An organization that records hate crimes across the U.S. & the New Haven-based group Promoting Enduring Peace
Tag: 12.14.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump and his racism; Assesses the agreement negotiated at the Paris climate summit; Examines the results of Venezuela's legislative election & Ongoing CT janitors contract talks & strike threat
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: 10.25.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses secret documents re: the US drone warfare program; Exxon's deception on climate change; Alabama voter suppression exposed & deficiencies in Haiti's 10-25-15 national election
Tag: 09-21-15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses racism in the 16' Election Campaign; Ralph Nader on the new Tort Law Museum; Deferred prosecution of GM for deadly car flaws; NLRB Invalidated union elections at two CT hospitals