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Episode: 03.03.25: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Democratic Party's weak opposition to Trump coup; Trump intimidates, threatens Freedom of the Press; Students resist Trump elimination of campus DEI; FBI turns blind eye to white supremacist violence
COUNTERPOINT RADIO, 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) Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, discusses his recent article, "Democrats Irritated by Voters Who Elected Them Need an Attitude Adjustment." where he warns that Democratic legislators who are "perceived as wimps who failed to really put up a fight against President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk, risk facing primary challenges propelled by grassroots anger.
2) Katherine Jacobsen, Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator with the Committee to Protect Journalists, who formerly worked for The Associated Press in Moscow and as a freelancer in Ukraine. She'll talk about CPJ's call on the Trump administration to restore Associated Press access to the White House, and the Trump regime's removal of the White House Correspondents’ Association from their decades-long role assigning reporters to cover White House press pool events, where the President's staff will itself select reporters who will cover the presidency.
3) Nicole Carty, Executive Director of Get Free, a youth-led progressive activist movement and Carson Delia, a Temple University student and Get Free member, talk about confronting the Trump regime's attempt to eliminate DEI policies in higher education and censor curricula that doesn't conform to their white supremacist ideology. They'll also discuss a recent incident at Temple University where students attempting to deliver a letter to the university president addressing their concerns re: Trump anti-DEI policies, were blocked by police.
4) Mike German, a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks about his new book, "Policing White Supremacy The Enemy Within," a former FBI agent’s urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism, and an increasingly dangerous situation where Donald Trump and his administration have embraced white supremacist and armed militia groups committing political violence on his behalf.
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