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Inflection Election 2024: Voters Warned of Fascist Threat Posed by Trump

Interview with Mark Green, former New York City public advocate and author, conducted by Scott Harris

Portland, Maine City Council Votes to Divest from Companies Doing Business in Israel

Interview with Abigail Fuller, co-chair of Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights, conducted by Scott Harris

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Retired Journalist Bikes to Washington, D.C., Building Opposition to Israel’s Gaza War

Interview with Bob Sanders, retired Jewish journalist from New Hampshire, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 11 2024

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Mexico's lower house passes controversial judicial reform
  • German far-right AfD party celebrates historic election victory
  • New green energy laws face backlash in rural Michigan

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COUNTERPOINT RADIO, 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

1) Wajahat Ali, creator of Left Hook substack, Co-host of The Democracy-Ish podcast, and author of, "Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American," discusses the presidential debate and election campaign, with a focus on Trump's threat to democracy, his demonization of immigrants and white supremacist rhetoric and action, as well as corporate media's skewed election coverage

2) Jay Young, Executive Director of Common Cause Illinois and Cheri Quikmeyer Executive Director of Common Cause Connecticut, discuss the work Common Cause is doing on election protection, i.e. addressing voter suppression, mass purges of the voting rolls, intimidation of poll workers, GOP election deniers' threats to delay certification of vote totals and sow chaos -- and the group's recruitment of volunteers to be poll watchers.

3) Rebel Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg, who, in 2023 celebrated 40 years of making music and political activism with the release of a 14-CD box set titled, The Roaring Forty, 1983 – 2023, talks about highlights of his career, working on 3 albums of songs written by legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie, political activism and getting older. Billy Bragg will be playing a show at Norwalk, CT's District Music Hall on Tuesday, October 15th.

4) John Guiliano, Executive Director of the Tamarindo Foundation in El Salvador talks about growing repression and violence across the impoverished Central American country under authoritarian president Nayib Bukele, who has targeted critics, sent troops into the legislature, and violated the country’s constitution to maintain his hold on power.

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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Interview with Rebel Singer/Songwriter Billy Bragg on His 40-Year Career, Progressive Activism & Getting Older conducted by Scott Harris. Watch/Listen Here >
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COUNTERPOINT RADIO, 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

1) Mark Green, former two term New York City Public Advocate and author or editor of twenty six books on U.S. politics, talks about his newest book titled, "The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024," which warns Americans that this November will be a choice between a Party of Progress and a Party of Dangerous Extremism that may determine the path for American governance for generations.

2) Bryce Greene, a graduate student, and writer discusses the repression of pro-Palestinian anti-war protests on college campuses across the U.S., and his involvement in an ACLU lawsuit against Indiana University for their suppression of the right to free speech during a vigil last May.

3) Activist and author Brian Tokar, a Board member of the Institute for Social Ecology, examines the climate crisis, and how we can chart a new path to a future that is not only sustainable but better than the way we currently live and interact with technology. Tokar will be addressing this topic at Hamden CT's Unitarian Society on September 14th.

4) Abigail Fuller, Co-Chair of Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights talks about her group's recent successful campaign resulting in a unanimous 9 to 0 vote in the Portland, Maine City Council passing a resolution directing the city to divest from corporations that are complicit in Israel's occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, and how this divestment effort could be a model for other cities across the U.S.

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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Surprise, surprise -- Prep school "incel" and Republican Party darling Tucker Carlson provides more evidence, if any was needed, that's he's a doctrinaire fascist and holocaust denier.
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Do you think the media's election coverage has adequately met the threshold for reporting on Trump's threat to democracy?