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) National Low Income Housing Coalition President/CEO Diane Yentel discusses Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson -- and the Trump administration's effort to impose work requirements, rent increases and other burdens on millions of low income families who receive federal housing assistance through HUD.

2) Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, public citizen, author and four-time independent presidential candidate, discusses "Trump, Empire and the Military Budget Draining America and What You Can Do About it -- Now!" - the topic he'll be exploring at the Rowe Center in Massachusetts, May 18th-20th.

3) Maria Luisa Mendonça, Director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil and Professor at the University of Rio De Janeiro's International Relations Department assesses the current political situation in Brazil after the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva -- and how the Workers Party, and other popular movements are responding to the government's move to the right, as well as progressive prospects for the upcoming general election in October 2018.

4) Brett Davidson, Co-founder, Co-Director of the Connecticut Bail Fund talks about his group's Mother's Day Bail Out, an effort to raise $30,000 so that women awaiting trial who are being held in CT's York Correctional Institution because they can't afford bail, can return home in time for Mother's Day.

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