WPKN Archives: 02.16.26: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's racist agenda; Trump regime's haunting buildout of immigrant concentration camps; States push for new taxes to replace federal social safety net fund cuts; National student anti-Ice walkout

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Original Aired:
Monday, February 16th, 2026
8:02PM to 9:31PM

Duration:
1 hour, 29 minutes

Posted:
Monday, February 16th, 2026 8:05PM

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Episode: 02.16.26: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses Donald Trump's racist agenda; Trump regime's haunting buildout of immigrant concentration camps; States push for new taxes to replace federal social safety net fund cuts; National student anti-Ice walkout

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) Amanda Hollowell, Chief of Campaigns with the group Color of Change, talks about her group's 20 years of critical work advocating for racial justice, and assesses the Trump administration's aggressive attack on America's long struggle to achieve a multi-racial democracy and implementation of discriminatory federal policies, underscored by President Trump's personal racism and bigotry that he regularly publicly displays in his speeches and on social media.

2) Journalist Andrea Pitzer, author of the book, "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps," examines Donald Trump's current violent mass deportation campaign, and the haunting similarities to Germany's rounding up, brutalizing and imprisoning immigrants, Jews and other minority groups - in concentration camps in the 1930s.

3) Kamolika Das, Local Policy Director with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, talks about a current nationwide effort to raise revenue in states to replace billions of dollars in vital local and state funding for social safety net programs that were lost in last year's Trump-GOP budget mega-bill that dramatically cut social programs while giving away huge tax cuts for profitable corporations and the rich.

4) Lily, a Connecticut activist with National Student Walkout Against ICE, talks about anti-ICE school protests that took place across the U.S. on Friday, Feb. 13th -- and the organizing going on now among national student groups for the 'Spring Surge to Melt Ice' campaign.

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 1.5 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

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