WPKN Archives: 08.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump attacks on Post Office; Federal COVID failure designed to sacrifice blue states; Congress must vote funds to run election amid COVID challenge & CT coalition demands transformative systemic change

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Counterpoint

Original Aired:
Monday, August 3rd, 2020
8:08PM to 10:04PM

Duration:
1 hour, 56 minutes

Posted:
Monday, August 3rd, 2020 8:07PM

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connecticut congress election corruption trump votersuppression votes coronavirus pandemic covid19 postoffice bluestates systemicpolicychange


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Episode: 08.03.20: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Trump attacks on Post Office; Federal COVID failure designed to sacrifice blue states; Congress must vote funds to run election amid COVID challenge & CT coalition demands transformative systemic change

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) Brief excerpt of the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis' commencement address at Boston University in May 2018 

2) American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein discusses his union's campaign to save the U.S. Postal Service from shortfalls caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Republican effort to weaken the USPS in an effort to privatize the service, and manipulation of the post office to assist Donald Trump in his 2020 re-election campaign.

3) Mark Sumner, a staff writer with progressive media and activism hub, Daily Kos, assesses the multiple disasters facing the U.S. as a result of Donald Trump's total failure in his role as president - and the mounting concern that these last few months before the November presidential election could be the most dangerous in the four years of the Trump regime.

4) Sylvia Albert Director of Voting & Elections with Common Cause talks about her group's response to Donald Trump's suggestion that the November presidential election be postponed, saying increased mail-in voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results. She'll also discuss CC's lawsuit challenging Trump’s directive to omit undocumented immigrants in Census apportionment calculations

5) Robert Goodrich, Co-Founder and Director of Advocacy with Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education and Eric Lopez, an organizer with CT Students For A Dream and a member of the Cancel Rent CT Coalition, talk about a progressive coalition of Connecticut groups that recently gathered at the CT State Capitol in Hartford to demand "transformative and systemic solutions" from state legislators and Governor Ned Lamont's administration.

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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