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No Kings Day Protest Interviews
June 14, 2025, was the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Also known as Flag Day, Donald Trump was hoping for a strong military...
Corporate Media Bending the Knee to Trump
After corporate media's groveling surrender to Donald Trump — one more stage in the fascist takeover of the United States — your support for progressive independent...
Bad News from the Connecticut General Assembly
Melinda Tuhus' conversation with Lori Brown, executive director of the CT League of Conservation Voters, about the just-completed 2024 short session of the CT...
In-Depth with Greg Grandin and Peter Kornbluh: The Dark and Violent Legacy of Henry Kissinger
Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward professor of history at Yale University, and Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Cuba...
Climate Defiance Takes a Rational Approach to the Climate Crisis
A conversation with Rylee Haught, co-founder of Climate Defiance, a youth-led organization that has generated lots of buzz with its aggressive nonviolent direct action...
WPKN Special Panel Discussion on Trump’s Indictment on His Criminal Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election
This special WPKN public affairs program discusses former President Donald Trump's most recent indictment on federal charges related to his attempt to overturn the...
Indigenous Day of Mourning on ‘Thanksgiving’ 2022
Excerpts from the 2022 Day of Mourning, held every year since 1970 (except 2020) by the United American Indians of New England on Cole's...
Compilation of Trump-Fascism Era Atrocities
Trumpism
"Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes," THE COMPLETE LISTING: ATROCITIES 1 – 1,056, MacSweeney's, January...
SPECIAL REPORTS
U.S. Imperialism Roars Back to Life
Stephen Zunes, a foreign policy scholar and professor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, analyzes and contextualizes the Jan. 3...
Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Today’s Worst Active Genocide, Famine, War Crimes in the World
Interview with Nathaniel Raymond, executive director, Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, conducted by Melinda TuhusMELINDA TUHUS: The work you...
Judge Forces Trump to Use Contingency Funds to Reactivate SNAP Benefits
Peggy Bailey discusses her group's views on the major issues and possible solutions to end the ongoing government shutdown, i.e.: extension of Affordable Care...
What Will It Take For the Gaza Ceasefire To Hold? And, No Kings is BACK!
Nicholas S. Davies discusses his Common Dreams article: "Beware Trump’s Ceasefire Deal Absent Meaningful UN Action to Halt Israel’s Genocide."And Carol Rizzolo, co-lead for...
Resistance Roundtable, September 2025 — Political Violence Rears Its Head Again
Jeet Heer, a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters, joins the Roundtable to discuss his recent Nation...
Mourning — and Restoring — the EPA
A coalition of climate organizations is organizing three actions in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18-19. The first is at the monthly Federal Energy Regulatory...
AFA-CWA President Sara Nelson Stares Down Full Frontal Fascism
The Monthly Labor Report, broadcast on WPKN the 1st Tuesday of each month, presents an interview with Sara Nelson, president of the Association of...
Unions Organize Nationwide Labor Day ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Rallies
Connecticut For All Organizing Director Constanza Segovia discusses plans underway for Labor Day protests nationally and in Connecticut on the theme of 'Workers Over...
Students Against the Gaza Genocide Win Big at University of Maryland
Resistance Roundtable double header:
• The fight against the genocide in Gaza with Branko Marcetic, staff writer with Jacobin Magazine; and Daniella Colombi, a graduate...
The War On Immigrants and Why We Must Win It
The Monthly Labor Report welcomes Nadia Marin-Molina, executive director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) to discuss the crisis, the activism, and...