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Tag: 12.18.23 Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Biden's Power to Stop Israeli Carnage in Gaza; Effective Challenge to America's Undemocratic Electoral College; Physician Relates the Horror her Gamily Faces in Gaza; New book Examines Class, Race & Gender
Tag: 07.03.23: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Russia Rebellion & Opening for Peace Talks; SCOTUS Ignores Precedent to Overturn Affirmative Action; US Repression IWW Union Offers Lessons for Today's Labor Activists; SCOTUS Blocks Student Debt Relief
Tag: 12.19.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre & ongoing campaign to end gun violence; UK's public sector labor strikes; GOP threat to cut Social Security, Medicare & Critique of Biden's US-Africa Leaders Summit
Tag: 09.5.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump GOP threat to democracy; Pursuing a negotiated end to the Ukraine war; US labor movement sees historic rise in union organizing drives; CT Folk Festival Celebrates 29th Year Sept. 10th & 11th
Tag: 06.13.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the 6-18-22 Poor People's March; Jan. 6th House investigation hearings; Conservative Democrat's PAC works to defeat progressive candidates; US complicity in horrific Yemen War
Tag: 03.07.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Ukraine war and the urgent need for nuclear de-escalation; Vladimir Putin's goal in Ukraine and impact of Russian sanctions; Starbucks union drive catches fire; Growing US racial wealth gap
Tag: 10.18.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses AT&T support for extremist One America "News" Network; Freedom to Vote Rally-Relay from WV to DC; Rising tensions between US & China; "The Great Strike of 2021" workers abandon the job market
Tag: 09.06.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Supreme Court's action on Texas abortion law; The cost of U.S. militarism since 9-11; New documentary film, "The Big Scary 'S' Word; The state of the US Labor movement 2021
Tag: 08.09.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the life and legacy of the late labor leader Richard Trumka; Investigating Trump's attempted coup; How progressives lost Ohio primary election; Urgent need to address global COVID vaccine access gap
Tag: 04.19.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the crisis in US policing & the Derek Chauvin trial; Biden urged to implement global vaccine manufacturing program; Unions push for passage of PRO Act & Bill would divert missile funds to Covid vaccine
Tag: 11.30.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump lawbreaking and lies; President-elect Biden's Cabinet choices; Climate issues and Biden's campaign pledges; The assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and its consequences
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: 06.22.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Opposition to GOP's advocacy of COVID19 corporate immunity; 5 ways to rebuild the US labor movement; Camden's dismantled Police Dept is no model for US; SCOTUS' landmark LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ruling
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres Trump's mismanagement of the pandemic; Dems advised to harness justified anger; Dangers & opportunities for unions in coronavirus crisis; Campaign to release CT inmates from prisons where COVID19 is spreading
Tag: 02.10.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's impeachment acquittal & Democratic primary campaign; The power of money in US politics; House passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act & Decrying conditions at New Haven, CT's jail
Tag: 12-16-19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses nationwide pro-impeachment protests; Conservative defeat of the Labor Party in the UK election; Trump's executive order on antiSemitism a threat to free speech; 'What's Wrong with the Republicans?'
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: 11.11.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the apparent coup in Bolivia; the epidemic of suicide among returning U.S. war veterans; the victories in the Chicago teachers strike; Project Blitz: the Christian right network drafting state laws
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: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms race; Bernie Sanders' groundbreaking workplace democracy proposal; Move to establish domestic terrorism statute open to FBI abuse & The fires burning down the Amazon rainforest
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: 01.21.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the L.A. teachers strike; Economic and political crisis in Venezuela; Proposed anti-BDS legislation in the US Senate; Trump border wall shutdown & 2020 Census question
Tag: 12.03.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's intention to withdraw from the US-Russia INF nuclear treaty; Welfare reform's impact on women & the nation; Investigation into Pentagon accounting fraud & Labor's need to get back to its roots
Tag: 09.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses current NAFTA negotiations; Labor resists Philippines Pres. Duterte's violence & repression; GOP voter suppression & intimidation in N.Carolina; Singer songwriter Jackson Browne accepts Gandhi Peace Award
Tag: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's NAFTA negotiations with Mexico & Canada; The state of the US labor movement 2018; SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh disregards International law; U.S. Wealth Inequality; Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice actions in CT
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: Interview with Michael Zweig -- March 6, 2018
Tag: Resistance Round Table -- Sept. 9, 2017
Tag: Interview with Joelle Fishman
Tag: 08.28.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's Afghan war policy; Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada & Mexico; Texas floods, severe weather & climate change & New Haven Wells Fargo divestment campaign
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: 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: 07.11.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses police-community relations in the wake of a week of violence; Afghanistan: America's longest war; the UK Chilcot report on Britain's role in Iraq War; the deal to close Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
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: 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: 11.09.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement; U.S. troops in Syria; Fight for $15 national day of action; Climate fast; Un-Koch My Campus national campaign
Tag: 10.19.15: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade treaty; Corporate tax avoidance; Israeli/Palestinian Combatants for Peace; Emloyment practices lawsuit against the Disney corporation
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