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The Resistance Starts Now!

Between The Lines' coverage and resource compilation of the Resistance Movement

"The man who predicted Trump presidential win now says Trump impeachment could happen," AM Joy with Joy Reid, MSNBC, Jan. 21, 2018
"Sketchy Kazakh money finds its way into Trump dealings," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Red flags seen in many Trump real estate deals," The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, Jan. 15, 2018
"Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers," BuzzFeed, Jan. 12, 2018
"The Scandals of Donald Trump: Presidential Edition," The Atlantic, May 15, 2017
"Here's what we know so far about Team Trump's ties to Russian interests," Washington Post's ongoing compilation
"What Comey Was Investigating, Explained," The Moscow Project, Center for American Progress

"Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands," Dutch TV documentary, Alternet.org, May 12, 2017
Ongoing compilation of Trump's creeping authoritarianism," MotherJones.com
Full resource list ...

SPECIAL REPORT: "The Resistance - Women's March 2018 - Hartford, Connecticut" Jan. 20, 2018

Selected speeches from the Women's March in Hartford, Connecticut 2018, recorded and produced by Scott Harris

SPECIAL REPORT: "No Fracking Waste in CT!" Jan. 14, 2018

Jen Siskind Jennifer Siskind, local coordinator for Food and Water Watch, describes the campaign to stop fracking waste in Connecticut, which so far has led to fracking waste bans in 34 towns around the state. Interviewed by Richard Hill on Mic Check, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT

SPECIAL REPORT: "Resistance Round Table: The Unraveling Continues..." Jan. 13, 2018

Lindsay Kanaly The panel discusses Trump's long history of racism and the Republican voter suppression juggernaut confronting Democrats leading up to the 2018 elections. Special guest: Lindsay Kanaly, a lead organizer of the Women's Marches planned for Jan. 20, 2018. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill on Resistance Roundtable, WPKN Radio, Bridgeport, CT.

SPECIAL REPORT: "Capitalism to the ash heap?" Richard Wolff, Jan. 2, 2018

Richard Wolff, Economics professor Richard Wolff declares U.S. capitalism to be beyond repair and suggests the need for a radical alternative. Interviewed by Richard Hill

SPECIAL REPORT: Maryn McKenna, author of "Big Chicken", Dec. 7, 2017

Maryn McKenna, investigative journalist and author of Big Chicken, talks about the widespread use and dangers of antibiotics in commercial poultry, beef and fruit production. Interview by Bill Duesing, Richard Hill and Guy Beardsly on WPKN's Organic Farm Stand.

SPECIAL REPORT: Nina Turner's address, Working Families Party Awards Banquet, Dec. 14, 2017

Nina Turner, president of Our Revolution, talks about the fight ahead for progressives as she receives the Working Families Organization Award for Exceptional Leadership Towards Advancing Progress. The event was held in Meriden, CT. Produced by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Dec. 12, 2017

Working Families Party of CT talks strategy and issues for 2018.
Lindsay Farrell, executive director of the Working Families Party of Connecticut, discusses the state's electoral landscape and lays out the issues and strategies that could lead to progressive victories in 2018. Interviewed by Richard Hill.

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Dec. 9, 2017

Disturbing developments in the Trump/Republican Agenda
Focus on the tax bill, destruction of our public lands, North Korea and Trump's private CIA. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill. Special guest: Jo Macallero of Rise and Resist.

SPECIAL REPORT: On Tyranny - one year later, Nov. 28, 2017

Professor Timothy Snyder, author of the highly acclaimed resistance manual On Tyranny, discusses his book and offers a fresh assessment of the state of our beleaguered republic. Timothy Snyder, history professor at Yale, is introduced by Stanley Heller, administrator of Promoting Enduring Peace, a Connecticut-based organization that sponsored this event at the United Church Parish House in New Haven on Nov. 28. A brief interview with Snyder conducted by WPKN radio producer, Richard Hill, follows his talk.

SPECIAL REPORT: Mic Check, Nov. 12, 2017

Lynne Ide, director of program and policy with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, talks about the current state of health care coverage in Connecticut. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resistance Roundtable, Nov. 11, 2017

Focus on the Republican tax plan, the just-released autopsy on the Democratic Party, and Internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Youtube. Including an interview with Hilary Grant, a lead organizer with Action Together Connecticut, who discusses the local results of the recent election, with hosts Richard Hill, Scott Harris and Ruth Baumgartner WPKN producers

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Two leaders from Redneck Revolt, an anti-racist, anti-capitalist movement, talk about their work organizing with white working class people in Suffolk County, New York. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Rainy Day Radio, Nov. 7, 2017

Bruce Gagnon, coordinator for the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, describes the extent of -- and motives underlying -- the vast US network of military bases around the globe. Interviewed by Richard Hill, WPKN radio producer

SPECIAL REPORT: Resisting U.S. JeJu Island military base in South Korea, Oct. 24, 2017

Joyakol, South Korean peace activist and singer, discusses the crisis on the Korean peninsula and focuses on the resistance to the U.S. huge military base being constructed on Jeju Island. The event was sponsored by the Greater New Haven Peace Council and this audio was recorded by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.
Joyakol discusses Americans' biggest misconceptions about the conflict between North and South Korea and the U.S., Interview by Richard Hill, WPKN producer.

SPECIAL REPORT: John Allen, Out in New Haven

John Allen, founding director of the New Haven Pride Center, Connecticut, talks about his new LGBTQ television show, Out in New Haven, which presents a range of political and cultural issues to the community. Interviewed by Richard Hill on WPKN's Rainy Day Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018.

2017 Gandhi Peace Awards

Promoting Enduring Peace presented its Gandhi Peace Award jointly to renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader and BDS founder Omar Barghouti on April 23, 2017.

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who helped make our 25th anniversary with Jeremy Scahill a success!

For those who missed the event, or were there and really wanted to fully absorb its import, here it is in video

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Between The Lines Presentation at the Left Forum 2016

"How Do We Build A Mass Movement to Reverse Runaway Inequality?" with Les Leopold, author of "Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice,"May 22, 2016, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, 860 11th Ave. (Between 58th and 59th), New York City. Between The Lines' Scott Harris and Richard Hill moderated this workshop. Listen to the audio/slideshows and more from this workshop.

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JEREMY SCAHILL: Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker "Dirty Wars"

Listen to the full interview (30:33) with Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist with the Nation Magazine, correspondent for Democracy Now! and author of the bestselling book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army," about America's outsourcing of its military. In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint's Scott Harris on Sept. 16, 2013, Scahill talks about his latest book, "Dirty Wars, The World is a Battlefield," also made into a documentary film under the same title, and was nominated Dec. 5, 2013 for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category.

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BTL Blog

"The Rogue World Order: Connecting the Dots Between Trump, Flynn, Bannon, Spencer, Dugin Putin," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Feb. 13, 2017

"Widespread Resistance Begins to Trump's Muslim Travel Ban at U.S. Airports," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 28, 2017

"MSNBC Editor: Women's March is a Revival of the Progressive Movement," by Anna Manzo (GlobalHealing), Daily Kos, Jan. 24, 2017

"Cornering Trump," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 19, 2017

"Free Leonard Peltier," by Reginald Johnson, Jan. 6, 2016

"For Natives, a "Day of Mourning"by Reginald Johnson, November 23, 2016

"A Bitter Harvest" by Reginald Johnson, Nov. 15, 2016

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This Week on Between The Lines

Posted Nov. 3, 2010 for week ending Nov. 12, 2010

GOP Sweeps U.S. Congress

"This is the next stage of corporate domination of government and our elections." -- Ralph Nader

If Tea Party voters knew what Between The Lines' listeners knew, would they have voted for candidates bankrolled by many of the very financial institutions that are responsible for the global economic meltdown? 2010 has been the year of the Tea Party -- backed by multi-billionaires David and Charles Koch, Fox News and anonymous corporate donors -- thanks to the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which not only allowed corporations, unions and nonprofits the same rights as individual citizens to influence elections, but to donate unlimited funds to candidates without disclosure.

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Ralph Nader: Flood of Secret Money in 2010 Election is Next Stage in Corporate Domination of U.S. Politics

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Interview with Ralph Nader, citizen activist and former presidential candidate, conducted by Scott Harris

democracysold Ever since the 1965 book release of "Unsafe at Any Speed," about the U.S. auto industry's reckless disregard for passenger safety, Ralph Nader has been known as a people's lawyer, fighting to protect consumers and the environment from rapacious and greedy corporations. Nader went on to run for president four times, twice with the Green Party in 1996 and 2000 -- and twice as an independent in 2004 and 2008, where he promoted campaign finance and electoral reforms to strengthen grassroots democracy. Story continues

U.S. Wars Absent from Congressional Election Debate

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Interview with Aaron Hughes, organizing team leader with the group Iraq Veterans Against the War, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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Conspicuously absent in the debates and political advertisements inundating the airwaves before the Nov. 2, 2010 congressional midterm election was any discussion about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- from any perspective. Suicide bombings and massacres are continuing in Iraq, overwhelmingly affecting civilians, while the Iraqi government has been deadlocked since elections this past March. The number of Americans dying in Iraq has dropped sharply, while in Afghanistan, 2010 has been by far the deadliest year of the nine-year-old conflict, with 413 Americans killed so far this year. Yet, neither incumbents nor their challengers were talking about the wars, and the media have almost universally ignored the issue during the 2010 campaign. Story continues

GOP Claims of Voter Fraud Cover for Election Intimidation Tactics

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Interview with Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow at Demos, conducted by Scott Harris

voting Claims of voter fraud have been a familiar refrain from Republican Party officials in recent elections. In 2010, as in past years, the GOP has charged that Democratic-allied groups have systematically worked to allow non-citizens to vote or permit Democratic supporters to cast multiple ballots. When reports indicated that the number of Democrats voting in early balloting was higher than predicted, Dick Armey, who leads the Tea Party movement's patron group, Freedom Works, explained to Fox News that the higher number of Democrats voting was due to voter fraud -- all said without a shred of evidence. Story continues

This week’s summary of under-reported news

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In Afghanistan, the CIA has set up a counterinsurgency base near the Pakistan border to deploy secret paramilitary units against the Taliban. ("U.S. covert paramilitary presence in Afghanistan much larger than thought," Washington Post, Sept. 22, 2010)
President Barack Obama rankled free traders when his administration opened a 90-day investigation of illegal trading practices by the People's Republic of China. ("Steelworkers Applaud Obama Administration Acceptance of Trade Case," United Steel Workers, Oct. 15, 2010; "Green Trade Wars," American Prospect, Oct. 20, 2010; "China's subsidies to green industries lead to growing trade deficits in clean energy products," Economic Policy Institute, Oct. 18, 2010)
The United Nations Convention on Biodiversity in Japan ended with the approval of new agreements to expand protected regions, as well as a new treaty on sharing the benefits of genetic material important to the development of new medicines. ("UN sets goals to reduce extinction rate," New York Times, Oct. 29, 2010; "Biodiversity pact begins with genes, " Inter Press Service, Oct. 31, 2010)

Recent Shows

Week Ending NOV. 5, 2010

Hilary Shelton: Report Documents Some Tea Party Leaders' Links with Racist and Xenophobic Groups
Dan Newman: Big Oil Companies Back California Referendum to Repeal Climate Change Regulations
David Moberg: U.S. Labor Could Draw Lessons from French Union Militancy and Solidarity

Week Ending OCT. 29, 2010

Mel Goodman: As War Escalates, Afghan Government and Taliban Take First Steps Toward Negotiations
Conrad Schneider: Strict Environmental Regulations Have Cut Deaths Resulting from Coal Pollution
Chuck Collins: As U.S. Poverty Rises, GOP and Tea Party Work to Undermine Social Safety Net

Week Ending OCT. 22, 2010

Nick Nyhart: Supreme Court Decision Opened Flood Gates for Unregulated Money in 2010 Election Campaign
Chris Toensing: Israel's Expansion of West Bank Settlements Dooms Current Peace Talks
Eva Golinger: Ecuador Coup Attempt Preceded by Familiar Pattern of U.S. Funding for Opposition Groups

Week Ending OCT. 15, 2010

Kevin Bankston: Obama Seeks Back Door Key to Spy on All Internet Communication
Ashley Nellis: Advocates Challenge Life Without Parole Sentences for Youth Convicted of Capital Crimes
Bill McKibben: Despite Setbacks, Climate Change Activist Bill McKibben Fights On, Sponsors Global Day of Action, Oct. 10

Week Ending OCT. 8, 2010

Robert Scheer: After Summers Resigns, Will Obama Scrap His Bank-Friendly Economic Policy?
Lorelei Scarbro: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Opponents Work to Generate Clean Energy
Denise Gray-Felder: One Nation Working Together March Aims to Energize Progressive Voters for November Election

Week Ending OCT. 1, 2010

Matthew Rothschild: Corporate-Funded Tea Party: Repeal New Deal Government Programs
Nada Khader: Groups Raise Funds to Launch U.S.-Gaza Aid Ship
Tyson Slocum: Oil Industry Organizes "Astroturf" Rallies to Fight Stronger Regulation

Week Ending SEPT. 24, 2010

Geneve Mantri: With Custody Transferred to Baghdad Government, Iraqi Prisoners Suffer Torture and Abuse
Julia Harumi Mass: CIA Torture Victims Denied Access to U.S. Courts
Sam Husseini: GOP Election Tactics and Media Bias Stoke Resurgent Islamophobia

Week Ending SEPT. 17, 2010

Bill Fletcher Jr.: Labor Must Put Pressure on Obama to Fight for Nation's Workers
Hussein Ibish: Middle East Peace Talks Resume Without Hamas
Patty Lovera: Massive Egg Recall Symptom of Larger Food Safety Crisis in Factory Farming

Week Ending SEPT. 10, 2010

Snehal Shingavi: Why International Aid is Slow to Arrive for Victims of Pakistan Floods
Jordan Flaherty: 5 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Recovery is a Tale of 2 Cities
Medea Benjamin: As Troops Withdraw From Iraq, Peace Groups Tie U.S. Wars with Financial Crisis

Week Ending SEPT. 3, 2010

Peter Hart: Media Amplifies Voices of Hate in Ground Zero Mosque Debate
Talet Hamdani: Muslim Mother of 9/11 Victim Asserts Islamic Center a Matter of Religious Freedom
Laura Kelley: Horticulturist: Disappearance of Honey Bees, a Warning Sign of Ecological Collapse

Week Ending AUGUST 27, 2010

Hugh Kaufman: Whistleblower: EPA Engaged in Coverup of BP Oil Spill Health Hazards
Catherine Murphy: Cuba's Transition to Organic, Sustainable Agriculture A Model for the World
Carole Scagnetti: Federal Judge Overturns California's Proposition 8, Affirms Gay Marriage as a Civil Right

Week Ending AUGUST 20, 2010

Jonathan Manes: Groups Launch Court Challenge To Stop Obama Assassination of U.S. Citizen
Ken Hechler: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining No. 1 Issue for W. Virginia U.S. Senate Candidate
Craig Aaron: Google and Verizon Plan Would End Free, Public Internet as We Now Know It

Week Ending AUGUST 13, 2010

Tom Engelhardt: Wikileaks Documents Paint Grim Picture of Afghan War
Jennifer Jaff: New Transitional Federal Law Provides Health Insurance to Patients with Pre-existing Conditions
Joy Gordon: Economic Sanctions Target Most Vulnerable, Rarely Achieve Political Objectives

Week Ending AUGUST 6, 2010

Lawrence Lessig: 'Fix Congress First!' Organizes to Change 'Pay to Play' Status Quo in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Green: Seed Banks Challenge Corporate Control of Food Crops
Tom Juravich: U.S. Workers' Stories Illuminate Intensifying Struggle for Dignity