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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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
Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state.
Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT
SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018
Lindsay Kanaly
The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.
SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018
Richard Wolff,
Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and
suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill
SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017
Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.
SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017
Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT.
Produced by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017
Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018. Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017
SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017
Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny,
discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.
SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017
Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers
SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017
Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.
Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.
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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Left Forum 2016 - "Rage, Rebellion, Revolution, Organizing Our Power"
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine at the 2016 Left Forum conference May 20 - May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City
Between The Lines' Sponsored Panel Discussion
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Panel discussion with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice" and co-founder and director of the Labor Institute in New York City. Co-chairs: Scott Harris and Richard Hill, Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine.
"Capitalism and Militarism – At Humanity's Peril: Organizing Our Power" May 20, 2016
The regime of capitalism today is characterized by massive and increasing inequality: wealth and power accumulates at one pole while misery, austerity, and ecological degradation explodes at the other. It is no wonder that militarism in the U.S. and abroad is exploding. We see it in the U.S., in the way local police forces are armed with surplus military weapons; in the use of public funds to procure mercenary corporate security forces and enlisted people to fight in yet another war in the name of democracy; in the deployment of fear generating security state surveillance practices and the inflammatory rhetoric of terrorism, to try to terrify a domestic population into acquiescence. Moderator: Laura Flanders, executive producer and host of The Laura Flanders Show. She is currently a contributing writer to The Nation and a regular contributor to MSNBC.
Speakers:
Chris Hedges is author, critic and was a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, as well as The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He is the author of the bestsellers "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America," "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy, the Triumph of Spectacle" and "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." He is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for Truthdig.
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years.
Tariq Ali is a British Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read PPE in University of Oxford.
"What's next for the Movement Behind Bernie?" May 21, 2016
The Sanders campaign has drawn tens of thousands into massive, enthusiastic rallies for "a political revolution against the billionaire class". Grassroots organizations like "Labor for Bernie," "People for Bernie" and "#Movement4Bernie" swelled around the country. How do we continue the fight against the billionaire class after the primaries? Do we need a new party for the 99%? Can this be a step towards revitalizing the labor movement? Come discuss these questions and more with leaders of the movement.
Speakers: Bryan Koulouris(at right), chair, Socialist Alternative's national organizer; Charles Lechner,(3rd from right) People For Bernie; Philip Locker,(2nd from left) Socialist Alternative's national spokesman and Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant's former political director for election and re-election campaigns; Mika(2nd from right), Labor for Bernie, longtime labor union activist; Kshama Sawant(far left) is an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work. As a member of the Seattle City Council, now in her second term, she has been a voice for workers, youth, and the oppressed.
"The Transformation of American Health Care – For Whom By Whom," May 21, 2016
Organizational issues: "From Empires to Health Systems (organized for and by whom?)" Oli Fein, practicing general internist and professor of clinical medicine and public health at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he also serves as associate dean and is responsible for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of Global Health Education. He is chairman of Physicians for a National Health Plan's NY Metro Chapter, former president of national PNHP, and former vice president for the United States of the American Public Health Association.
The Future of Health Care Work Force: "The Role of Primary Care," - Mary O'Brien practiced medicine in New York City for the past 30 years—doing my residency at Presbyterian and then working for ten years as director of St. Luke’s ER. Now I work at Columbia Student Health Services. For the past nine summers, I have volunteered in a rural clinic in the Mississippi Delta where I have seen more severe and entrenched poverty and ill health than I have ever seen in New York City. I joined PNHP to work more actively for universal health care."
Insurance issues: "For-profit Health Insurance vs. Single Payer: for the people, not profit!" - Annette Gaudino is statewide coordinator for the Campaign for New York Health and organizer, Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter. She previously worked as a speech and swallowing therapist, and has over 25 years of activist experience in the LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS, and harm reduction movements.