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Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.

Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.

His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.



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The Resistance Starts Now!

Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement



SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris





SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018



SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018





SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018




SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017






SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017



SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017




SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven




2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.



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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE...

who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!

For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 2 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.


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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

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"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.





Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.



JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.

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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine at the 2015 Left Forum


healthcarehumanright.png"Successes and Challenges of Human Rights Campaigns for Publicly Financed Health Care in the U.S."

a panel discussion exploring state campaigns to establish single-payer health care Saturday, May 30, 2015

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Successes and Challenges of Human Rights Campaigns for Publicly Financed Health Care in the U.S. from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.



panelLeft Forum Panel description: The movement for universal health care in the U.S. has experienced many successes, challenges, and setbacks. The U.S. remains the only industrialized country without universal health care, and the Affordable Care Act shows that access to and payment for care will remain inequitable while health care is treated as a market commodity rather than a public good. Health care is a matter of economic justice and human rights. After winning the country’s first law for universal, publicly financed health care in 2011, Vermont’s Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign has inspired rights-based grassroots campaigns in a number of states, including Maine, Maryland and Pennsylvania, which have formed a Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative. When Vermont’s governor recently caved to pressure from businesses and refused to endorse a financing plan for the new system, the Vermont Campaign pushed back, supported by partners, allies and economists across the country. The Vermont Workers’ Center and NESRI released the Campaign’s own financing plan, demonstrating how equitable taxes can create a health care system that meets everyone’s health needs and advances income and wage equality. This panel will examine challenges in Vermont, Pennsylvania and elsewhere; discuss lessons for state-based campaigns; and assess how the struggle for health care is linked to other economic rights, including budget and tax policy.

leyshonBetween The Lines' Executive Producer Scott Harris introduces the panel discussion and the first speaker, Traven Leyshon, who provides an analysis of successes and challenges in Vermont. Traven Leyshon is a longtime working class radical having been active in rank and file movements in the auto and trucking industries. He is a founding member of the Vermont Workers Center, active in the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign, president of an AFL-CIO central labor council, and a member of Solidarity.




sairahmedKarim Sariahmed, of Put People First PA, discusses how PPF-PA has learned from VT's campaign and adapted that organizing model for Pennsylvania. He works in youth education and is starting medical school this summer. He holds a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College.





rudigerAnja Rudiger, who assesses the progress/success and impact of campaigns in Vermont, Pennsylvania and other states, and the near-term and long range effect on organizing nationally. Anja Rudiger, Ph.D., is director of programs at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), based in New York City. Anja works with grassroots groups across the U.S. to develop human rights strategies, analysis and tools to advance social and economic justice, particularly in the areas of health care and budget/revenue policies. She has advised and supported the Healthcare Is a Human Right campaign in Vermont since its inception in 2008. NESRI is now coordinating the multi-state Healthcare Is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative.



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Audience Q&A with our health care panelists, followed by closing remarks



Between The Lines thanks Anja Rudiger, Traven Leyshon, Karim Sariahmed, Ellen Schwartz, Keith Brunner and Thuan Le for their help in organizing this panel.

This year's Left Forum theme:"No Justice, No Peace: Confronting the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy”
Featured speakers include: Glen Ford, Kshama Sawant, Tom Hayden, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Laura Flanders & Immortal Technique

The Left Forum is the largest annual conference of the broad Left in the United States. Each spring thousands of conference participants come together to discuss pressing local, national and global issues; to better understand commonalities and differences, and alternatives to current predicaments; or to share ideas to help build social movements to transform the world.

More information at LeftForum.org

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