Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Jared A. Ball, Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University, discusses his views on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the nation celebrates what would have been his 93rd birthday -- and the many ways his message and struggle have been watered down and sanitized, as key advancements of the civil rights era are being attacked and eroded by the white nationalist Republican party and their allies in the courts.

2) Dr. Maha Hilal, an organizer with the group Witness Against Torture, co-director of Justice for Muslims Collective, and a council member of School of the Americas Watch. She'll discuss WAT's actions protesting the 20 years that the US has operated the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where 39 Muslim men remain, 15 of whom have been cleared for release, 12 of whom have not been charged and are called "forever prisoners."

3) Thomas Homer-Dixon, Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Vancouver, Canada, talk about his recent article warning of the danger Trump poses to U.S. democracy, and the imposition of a right wing dictatorship in the U.S. by the year 2030 -- and what Canada must do to prepare for the likely unravelling of America's democracy.

4) Stanley Heller, executive director of the New Haven based group Promoting Enduring Peace and host of the TV news magazine "The Struggle," talks about the CT State Police shooting of 19-year old Mubarak Soulemane in West Haven on January 15, 2020, following a police pursuit from Norwalk after an alleged car theft. Two years later there still has been no decision whether to indict any of the officers involved in the death of this teenager.

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