WPKN Archives: 07.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigrant humanitarian border crisis; Trump regime efforts to rig US elections; Youth led Global Climate Strike & Left-Right coalition passes amendment blocking funds for Trump war with Iran

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Counterpoint

Original Aired:
Monday, July 15th, 2019
8:08PM to 10:04PM

Duration:
1 hour, 56 minutes

Posted:
Monday, July 15th, 2019 8:04PM

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youth students iran war congress immigration abuse climatechange gop trump votersuppression gerrymandering census border humanitariancrisis warpowersact childrenincages concentrationcamps nomorecamps globalclimatestrike


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Episode: 07.15.19: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses immigrant humanitarian border crisis; Trump regime efforts to rig US elections; Youth led Global Climate Strike & Left-Right coalition passes amendment blocking funds for Trump war with Iran

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) Independent investigative reporter and author, Arun Gupta who is an initiator of the website NoMoreCamps.org which features a call to action signed by authors Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Jr., former president of TransAfrica Forum and others demanding the closure of the Trump regime's concentration camps for refugees and asylum seekers by proposing non-violent civil disobedience, blockades of the camps, occupations, die-ins, the establishment of "freedom camps" at the detention facilities and support for Customs and Border Protection government workers who walk out on strike.

2) Keshia Morris, program associate with Common Cause will talk about the Trump regime's now defeated effort to include a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census, but the mixed messages about using other government data to rig the system. There's Alabama's federal lawsuit demanding that non-citizens not be counted for purposes of reapportionment and redistricting. I'd also like to discuss the impact of the SCOTUS ruling removing the federal courts from adjudicating partisan gerrymandering cases.

3) Alexandria Villasenor, leader with the New York City Youth Climate Strike talks about organizing now being done by 350.org, and other groups around the world, in advance of the Global Climate Strike, September 20, 2019.

4) Stephen Miles, Executive Director of the national coalition Win Without War discusses the recent House vote on the Khanna-Gaetz amendment to block any funds for a future Trump regime initiated war with Iran.

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 2-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

Show: Counterpoint

Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00-10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming is at http://wpkn.org/ . Interview segment archives are at counterpointradio.org .

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