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

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

1) Trump's Ongoing Assault on Democracy Closely Follows the Authoritarian Playbook

Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of "How Fascism Works," and his newest book, “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future,” shares his views on the Trump regime's unconstitutional attempt to eliminate entire federal agencies, the mass firing of government employees, the witch hunt targeting DEI and all federal anti discrimination policies, as well as recent threats to criminalize student protest at university campuses nationwide.

2) Target's Elimination of the Store's DEI Policy Provokes Nationwide 40-Day Boycott

Jamal-Harrison Bryant, Senior Pastor at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia discusses his call for a 40-day "fast" from shopping at Target stores during Lent starting on March 5th, in response to the company's retreat from their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies after Donald Trump launched a campaign to eliminate DEI and decades-long civil rights policies in the federal government.

3) Trump's Erratic On-Again, Off-Again Tariff Policy Born of Desperation

Richard D. Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, author of 11 books including, “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism,” and host of the weekly syndicated radio program Economic Update. Professor Wolff will examine Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, Europe and other nations, the impact on the US economy, as well as indications that the Trump regime is getting ready to manipulate government issued economic statistics by excluding government spending from data about U.S. economic output -- and the Commerce Department's decision to disband two expert committees that worked with the government to produce reliable economic statistics.

4) Connecticut Citizen Action Group's 2025 Legislative Agenda Explained

Tom Swan, Executive Director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group discusses CCAG's priorities and goals in the current state legislative session, as well as initiatives a coalition of groups in the state are working on to build a firewall to protect CT residents from Trump 2.0 authoritarian federal policies targeting civil rights, education, and critical social safety net programs.

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

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

1) Confronting Democratic Party's Weak Opposition to Trump Coup
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) Trump Threatens, Attempts to Intimidate US Free Press
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) Students Across America Resist Trump Elimination of Campus DEI
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) For Decades FBI, Local Police Have Turned Blind Eye to White Supremacist Violence

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.

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

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: WPKN Archives

1) A representative of the group Social Security Works, discusses the House GOP budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid to help pay for extending the 2017 tax cuts, primarily benefiting the wealthiest Americans. They'll also talk about the group's campaign to educate and mobilize Americans to oppose this proposal that will eliminate millions of Americans' access to affordable health care.

2) Elizabeth Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona discusses rising concern about newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr's agenda at this sprawling agency, and the damage his anti-science views could inflict on the federal health response to contagious diseases such as measles and bird flu, federally funded research on new drugs and food safety, as well as supervision of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIPS and the ACA.

3) Maria J. Stephan, Co-Lead and Chief Organizer with the Horizons Project is the author and editor of five books on authoritarianism and civil resistance, including the award-winning book, "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict." She talks about her recent article, "We are stronger than we think," and issues related to the rising protest movement opposing the Trump/ Musk agenda, the power of collective defiance and how to make cruelty backfire.

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.