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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: 07.18.22: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres. Biden's recent Middle East trip; Christian extremist policies imposed across the country; Big Oil profiteering boosts gas prices; AIPAC funds campaigns against progressive candidates
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: 01.04.21: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump's continuing attempt to overturn the 2020 election; UK's 11th hour Brexit Deal; NRC proposes to extend nuclear power plant licenses to 100 years & the Kevin Zeese Emerging Activist Fund
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: 04.27.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democrats' need to push coronavirus aid for working families; Crisis opportunities for change; Hate groups exploit COVID-19 pandemic & CT Sheraton Hotel workers lose jobs and company health insurance
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: 08.19.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Israel's travel ban against Reps. Omar & Tlaib; Progressive presidential candidates' electability; Truck rams through peaceful protest at ICE detention center & New Haven moving to Sanctuary City status
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: 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: 04.16.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Pres.Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Syria; the GOP plan to cut Social Security, Medicare; Youth activism in the age of Trump & MIT Student Day of Action in Boston
Tag: 02.19.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the response to the Florida school shooting mass murder; Israel's recent attacks inside Syria; Organizing Hilton hotel workers in Stamford, CT; Populism and the importance of hope in social movements
Tag: 11.06.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses GOP effort to promote religion in politics; EPA banning of scientists from advisory boards; Democratic party post-election autopsy; Confronting hate & fear in Trump's America
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: 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: 01.09.17: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the Trump agenda & the future of the Democratic party; Israeli policy toward Palestinians; Report from a delegation to Syria & Preview of planned protests at Trump inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Tag: Interview with Bishop John Selders of Moral Monday CT
Tag: 12.05.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the GOP threat to privatize Social Security & Medicare; Fidel Castro's legacy & future of US-Cuba relations under Trump regime; Plans for Womens March on Washington & Danbury, CT Vigil for Unity & Justice
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: 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: 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: 05.02.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses U.S. voter suppression issues; the ongoing crisis in Ukraine; the possible future transition of the Bernie Sanders' campaign to a movement & New Exxon documents reveal early knowledge of climate change
Tag: 04.18.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses the ACLU's lawsuit to get U.S. torture documents; the Next System's nationwide teach-ins; Puerto Rico's debt crisis & the new French "Staying Up All Night" anti-austerity movement
Tag: 02.01.16: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses what happens if Bernie Sanders loses; Democracy Awakening actions in Wash. D.C. in April; Eyewitness to Oregon militia takeover & fight over public lands; Immigration as a central issue in Election 2016
Tag: Interview with Robert Borosage from Campaign for America's Future