Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Zeenat Yahya, Director of Policy with the group March For Our Lives, discusses the significance of the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting that killed 20 first grade students and 6 educators -- and her group's ongoing campaign to regulate the sale and distribution of guns in the U.S. in order to save lives and end gun violence.

2) Kenneth Surin, Emeritus Professor of Marxism & Critical Theory, Duke University discusses the significance of the largest public sector labor strikes in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, with nurses, rail workers, postal workers, ambulance workers, airport staff, Border Force agents, and many more sectors all walking off the job demanding increased pay and improved working conditions, as inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1% in October.

3) Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, to discuss the Republican Party's threat to hold the federal debt limit hostage in order to force cuts to Social Security -- and his group's call to the Democratic Party to either raise or eliminate the debt limit before the end of the year when Republicans take control of the House of Representatives.

4) Rose Brewer, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Africa team. who talks about the Alliance’s anti-imperialist week of actions to "raise public awareness about the cynical intentions of President Biden's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.

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