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UAW Strike

UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions on Stock Buybacks

Interview with Lucy Dean Stockton, editor and reporter with The Lever, conducted by Scott Harris

Wisconsin gerrymandering, Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz impeachment

GOP Attacks Wisconsin’s Democratic Institutions to Maintain Grip on Minority Rule

Interview with Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, conducted by Scott Harris

Leonard Peltier

Supporters of Leonard Peltier Call on Biden to Release America’s Longest Serving Political Prisoner

Excerpts of rally speeches by Holly Cook Macarro, NDN Collective and Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 20, 2023

Compiled by Bob Nixon

  • Kenya launches inquiry into British soldiers' abuse of citizens
  • Tennessee county using opioid settlement funds to collect highway litter
  • Progressive Caucus pushing End Child Poverty Act

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war made invisible - How America Hides the Human Toll

22 Years After 9/11, It’s Time to Reassess the U.S. War on Terror

On Sept. 11, people across the U.S. honored the lives of 3,000 men, women and children who died in the terrorist attacks on New...
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Scientist Believes Climate Activists are Doing the Most Important Work on Planet Earth Right...

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  He’s also a climate activist who has been arrested in actions organized by...
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RICO Indictment of 61 ‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Criminalizes Dissent, Sets Dangerous Precedent

On Aug. 14, Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis announced that former President Donald Trump and 18 others were indicted by an Atlanta...

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – Sept. 13, 2023

In a historic ruling, Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional...

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Tracing the History of Republican Party’s Right-wing Extremism from the 1930s to Trump

Resistance Roundtable: September 9, 2023

Guests:
Jeet Heer: 

National affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine and host of the weekly Nation podcast, "The Time of Monsters." He also writes the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms,” and is the author of "In Love with Art: Francoise(S) Moulee’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman."

Morris "Rippy" Patton:
Former Vice President of the Bristol, CT chapter of the NAACP, and current candidate for Bristol City Council
Topics:
1) Jeet Heer's article:"The GOP’s Nazi Problem Has Deep Roots: To build their popular front on the right, Republicans are happy to recruit white nationalists," which was published in the Nation Magazine on July 31.
2) The deeply disturbing "Keep Connecticut White" rally that occurred in Bristol, CT in mid- August, with discussion of the community and statewide response to another in a series of racist, white supremacist actions in Connecticut.

 

 

 

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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

1) Matthew Cunningham-Cook and Lucy Dean Stockton discuss their recent Lever article, "Automakers Hand Billions To Shareholders While Stiffing Workers," the United Auto Workers historic strike that was launched against the big three U.S. automakers on September 15th, and the current state of the U.S. labor movement.

2) Ruth Conniff, Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner examines the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate vote to fire the state’s nonpartisan top elections official Meagan Wolfe, and the GOP legislature's scheme to impeach Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz, that is linked to the state's extreme partisan gerrymandered district maps, and state law re: women's reproductive rights.

3) Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, and Anthony Flaccavento, Executive Director of the Rural Urban Bridge talk about their joint Initiative, "A Rural New Deal" report, that proposes a plan that is "urgently needed to build and rebuild local economies across rural America."

4) Byron Belitsos, an award winning publisher and principal author of the acclaimed "One World Democracy" (2005), which is based in part on political teachings of the Urantia Revelation. He'll talk about the International Day of Democracy (Sept. 15th,) and the Earth Constitution Institute's advocacy for a democratic world federation, and the formation of "World Electoral Districts on four continents, with the aim of electing delegates to a Provisional World Parliament to be held next spring in Pondicherry, India.

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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#EndFossilFuels! Sept. 15-17 -- 400 climate actions all over the world. https://endfossilfuels.us
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine2 weeks ago
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

1) Author and long time peace activist Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, talks about his new book, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine," and on this 22nd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S., he'll discuss why he beli eves it's, "Time to reassess the war on terror."

2) Amanda Moore, a writer and researcher who focuses on far-right extremism, discusses her fascinating new Nation magazine article, "Undercover With the New Alt-Right For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party."

3) Paul Glaze, of the Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition, discusses the RICO indictment of 61 Stop Cop City activists in Atlanta, and other developments in the city-wide referendum campaign to stop construction of the proposed $90 million police training facility on 85 acres of land in a forest southeast of Atlanta.

4) Evan Fritz of the Connecticut chapter of climate activist group 350.org, talks about the upcoming Sunday, Sept. 17th "March to End Fossil Fuels" in New York City, and transportation options to get people to the action being organized by regional climate and environmental groups.

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