WPKN Archives: 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.

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Original Aired:
Monday, September 25th, 2023
8:03PM to 9:30PM

Duration:
1 hour, 27 minutes

Posted:
Monday, September 25th, 2023 8:03PM

Tags:
connecticut israel environment protest biden palestinians aipac humanrights netanyahu authoritarianism prisonreform apartheid climatecrisis fossilfuel ukrainewar climatejustice razom wrongfulconvictions religiousextremists israellobby


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Episode: 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.

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

The Monday September 25, 2023 episode of Counterpoint will be hosted by Mike Merli who is filling in for Scott Harris this week. He'll be interviewing the following guests:

1) Svitlana Romanko, a Ukrainian environmental lawyer and climate justice activist, speaks about her organization Razom We Stand (Together We Stand), and her fight to end the global fossil fuel addiction that feeds Putin’s war machine.

2) Gaylord Salters, community organizer and founder of Go Get It Publishing, speaks about his fight to end wrongful convictions in New Haven.

3) Stanley Heller, Administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, speaks about his group’s work, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent trip to the United States, where he met with political leaders and tech entrepreneurs, and was met with protests.

Some segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint

 

 

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