WPKN Archives: 09.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses current NAFTA negotiations; Labor resists Philippines Pres. Duterte's violence & repression; GOP voter suppression & intimidation in N.Carolina; Singer songwriter Jackson Browne accepts Gandhi Peace Award

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Show:
Counterpoint

Original Aired:
Monday, September 17th, 2018
8:13PM to 10:04PM

Duration:
1 hour, 51 minutes

Posted:
Monday, September 17th, 2018 8:00PM

Tags:
mexico unions labor violence nafta trump canada freetrade manufacturing northcarolina gandhipeaceaward amlo drugwar obrador fairtrade philippines duterte votersupression jacksonbrowne


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Episode: 09.17.18: Counterpoint host Scott Harris discusses current NAFTA negotiations; Labor resists Philippines Pres. Duterte's violence & repression; GOP voter suppression & intimidation in N.Carolina; Singer songwriter Jackson Browne accepts Gandhi Peace Award

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) Lori Wallach director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and founder of the Citizens Trade Campaign, a U.S. national coalition of consumer, labor, environmental, family farm, religious, and civil rights groups, assesses ongoing negotiations between the Trump administration, Mexico and Canada on revising or replacing key elements of NAFTA impacting North American workers and the environment.

2) Elmer "Bong" Labog, national chairperson of the Kilusang Mayo Uno, (KMU,) an influential progressive militant labor organization in the Philippines who talks about the murderous regime of Philippines President Rodrigo Dutertre.

3) Steven Rosenfeld, a senior writing fellow of the Independent Media Institute and author of, "Democracy Betrayed: How Super-delegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election," discusses his recent article, "North Carolina Is at the Heart of Trump’s Vote Suppression Project," and the work of IMI's Voting Booth project.

4) Acceptance speech by singer songwriter Jackson Browne, recipient of the 2018 Gandhi Peace award for his lifetime of activism. Browne, the first performing artist to receive the award, joins previous recipients Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Benjamin Spock, Linus Pauling and Cesar Chavez, among others. The award, given by the New Haven based group Promoting Enduring Peace since 1960, invited Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to introduce Browne in a ceremony recorded at Southern Connecticut State University on September 14, 2018.

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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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