Award-winning Investigative Journalist Robert Parry (1949-2018)

Award-winning investigative journalist and founder/editor of ConsortiumNews.com, Robert Parry has passed away. His ground-breaking work uncovering Reagan-era dirty wars in Central America and many other illegal and immoral policies conducted by successive administrations and U.S. intelligence agencies, stands as an inspiration to all in journalists working in the public interest.

Robert had been a regular guest on our Between The Lines and Counterpoint radio shows -- and many other progressive outlets across the U.S. over four decades.

His penetrating analysis of U.S. foreign policy and international conflicts will be sorely missed, and not easily replaced. His son Nat Parry writes a tribute to his father: Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews.

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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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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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"Right now, when you turn 65, you get a Medicare card so you can go to hospitals, doctors and so forth. But they want to just give you some money and say, 'Go out on the market, good luck, and find some insurance ...' Before Medicare was enacted, most seniors could not find insurance that they could afford, and those that did paid astronomical amounts for the insurance."

– Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, on how House Speaker Paul Ryan, the nominee-to-be Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence want to privatize Medicare

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Trump Cabinet Pick Advocates Privatization of Medicare

Interview with Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, conducted by Scott Harris

As Donald Trump campaigned for president, he advocated for many long-held conservative views, including deportation of undocumented immigrants, climate change denial, big tax breaks for the nations’ wealthiest citizens, repealing Obamacare, lifting regulations on corporations and banks, and pouring billions more dollars into the U.S. military. But there were a handful of issues where Trump departed from the conservative orthodoxy, like his opposition to free trade agreements that had been supported by Republican and Democratic presidents alike. In discussing domestic social safety net issues, Trump warned in an April 2015 television interview that his GOP primary rivals would cut Medicare and Social Security, but that he alone would protect those popular programs. Story continues

Women's March on Washington Challenging Trump Agenda Gathers National Momentum

Interview with Cassady Fendlay, communications coordinator with the group planning the January 21st Women's March on Washington, conducted by Scott Harris

In the hours and days following the Nov. 8 U.S. election that installed Donald Trump as the nation’s next president, tens of thousands of angry and disoriented Trump opponents poured into the streets in cities and towns declaring that the vulgar billionaire was “Not My President.” While the overwhelming majority of protests were peaceful, there were incidents involving property destruction and arrests made during Nov. 10 protests in Portland, Oregon. Story continues

Campaign Wins Ban on Frac Sand Mining in Minnesota's Winona County

Interview with Johanna Rupprecht, policy program organizer with Minnesota-based Land Stewardship Project, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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A region of rich soil and rural beauty is found in what’s called the Driftless area, where the four states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois come together on both sides of the Mississippi River in terrain that was never covered by glaciers. The hard, round grains of sand in that region are well-suited to be used in the oil and gas fracking industries and is thus in great demand. So-called “frac sand” is a necessary ingredient – along with hundreds of chemicals and untold billions of gallons of water – in the fossil fuel extraction process known as hydraulic fracking. Story continues

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Colombia has ratified a revised peace deal with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), ending 52 years of civil war which has killed 220,000 and displaced 8 million people. It was a landmark victory for Colombian President Juan Manual Santos who revived a modified peace plan only weeks after voters narrowly rejected an earlier peace agreement with the FARC. ("Colombia's Government Formally Ratifies Revised Farc Peace Deal," The Guardian, Dec. 1, 2016; "Hurdles Remain for New Colombia Peace Deal With FARC Guerrillas," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2016)
The outgoing Obama administration is giving the U.S. military new powers for tracking the movement of foreign fighters across the globe as ISIS militants flee war zones in Syria and Iraq. ("Obama Administration Expands Elite Military Unit's Powers to Hunt Foreign Fighters Globally," Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25, 2016; "Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia," New York Times, Nov. 27, 2016)
As standard 40-hour-a-week jobs have disappeared, there’s a growing contingent workforce where people work under short term contracts. ("From U.S. to Europe, the Face of Employment Is Changing," Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 24, 2016)

Recent Shows

December

Week Ending Dec. 9, 2016

Steven Rosenfeld: Election Recounts in Key Battleground States Will Reveal Deep Flaws in U.S. Electoral Machinery
Robert Jensen: Passive U.S. Media Moving Quickly to Normalize Trump's Hate Speech and Stream of Nonstop Lies
Ron Pauley: GOP Senate Leader Blocking Bill to Extend Promised Health Care to Retired Coal Miners

Week Ending Dec. 2, 2016

Drew Courtney: Opponents Organize to Block Expected Trump Muslim Registry and Jeff Sessions' Attorney General Nomination
Greg Palast: GOP Wrongly Purged More Than 1 Million Votes, Changing Election Outcome
Kyle Bailey: Maine Becomes First State in Nation to Adopt Ranked Choice Voting System

November

Week Ending Nov. 25, 2016

Thomas Frank: Democrats' Failure to Address Economic Insecurity Gave Trump Election Advantage
Dr. Willie Parker: Trump's Vow to Make Abortion Illegal Will Have Greatest Impact on Nation's Poor
Chris Pearson: Viable Campaign Underway to Nullify America's Undemocratic Electoral College

Week Ending Nov. 18, 2016

Robert Parry: Will Russia's Role in U.S. Election Provoke or Avert New Cold War?
John P. Geyman: Obamacare Insurance Rate Increases Prompt Renewed Call for Medicare for All
Anthony Rogers-Wright: Climate Activists Brace for Post-Election Fight to Rein in Fossil Fuels Expansion

Week Ending Nov. 11, 2016

Sue Udry: Civil Liberties Groups Will Push Next President For Stronger Surveillance Reforms
Matt Wood: Proposed AT&T-Time Warner Merger Provokes Broad Opposition
Corey Menafee: Campaign to Change Yale University College Pro-Slavery Namesake Gains Momentum

Week Ending Nov. 4, 2016

Marge Baker: Next President Will Have the Power to Shift Direction of Supreme Court
Brigid Flaherty: Women Rise Up to Protest Trump's Boast of Sexual Assault and GOP's Legacy of Sexism
Roger Salazar: California's Proposition 61 Threatens Drug Company Monopoly Pricing

October

Week Ending Oct. 28, 2016

Mark Ames: Charges of Russian Interference in U.S. Election Adds to Fear of New Cold War
Bill Fletcher Jr.: A Post-Election Strategy for the U.S. Progressive Movement
Arlinda Tray Johns: Formerly Incarcerated Woman Strives to Become an Attorney and Fight for Criminal Justice Reform

Week Ending Oct. 21, 2016

Jennifer Clark: Group Warns Trump's 'Election Observers' Can Lead to Voter Intimidation
Shane Burley: 'Alt-Right' White Supremacists Organizing Support on U.S. College Campuses
Chris Schweitzer: City Promotes Dialogue on Climate Change as Essential Prerequisite to Action

Week Ending Oct. 14, 2016

Chris Knestrick: Colombian Voters Narrowly Reject Peace Agreement to End 52 Years of War
Mary Katherine Nagle: Resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline Part of Larger Struggle to Protect Indigenous Rights
Adele M. Stan: Donors Linked with Koch Brothers Network Funding Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson

Week Ending Oct. 7, 2016

Kennette Benedict: Obama Administration Rejects Adopting Nuclear Weapons No-First Use Pledge
Kevin Alexander Gray: Professional Athletes Stepping Up to Protest Police Violence and Racial Injustice
John Harrity: Machinists Union Adopts Resolution Making the Fight Against Climate Change a Priority

September

Week Ending Sept. 30, 2016

Trevor Timm: U.S. Human Rights Groups Press Obama to Grant Snowden Presidential Pardon
Hugh MacMillan: Report Details Wall Street Banks Financing Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline
Patricia Hynes: U.S. Military Industrial Complex a Major Contributor to Climate Change Crisis

Week Ending Sept. 23, 2016

Melinda St. Louis: Coalition Organizing to Stop Passage of TPP Free Trade Pact in Lame Duck Session of Congress
Rahna Epting: Campaign Launched to Make Democracy Reform Focus of 1st Presidential Debate
Paul Winter: Paul Winter's New Song Supports Movement to Free Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier

Week Ending Sept. 16, 2016

Laura Carlsen: Mexicans Contemptuous of Trump and Their President After Embarrassing Meeting
Cody Hall: Indigenous Nations Resist Construction of North Dakota Access Oil Pipeline
James S. Henry: EU Imposes $14.5 Billion Tax on Apple After Tax Avoidance Scheme Uncovered

Week Ending Sept. 9, 2016

Michael Beer: Turkey Invades Northern Syria and Attacks U.S.-Backed Kurdish Rebels
Chip Berlet: Alt-Right Racists Leading Trump Campaign Enter Upper Echelon of Mainstream U.S. Politics
Chad Cordell: After Long Campaign, West Virginia DEP Shuts Down Mountaintop Removal Mine Near State Forest

Week Ending Sept. 2, 2016

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler: Aetna, Other Insurance Companies Exit Obamacare, Illustrates Need for Medicare For All
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: America's Growing Racial Wealth Divide Endangers Nation's Future Economic Health
Pamela Roush and Sharry Mullins: After Devastating West Virginia Floods, Neighbors Help Neighbors, but Volunteers Still Needed

August

Week Ending Aug. 26, 2016

Robert Parry: Ahead in the Polls, Hillary Clinton Embraces GOP Neocon War Hawks
Michael Hendryx: West Virginia Asks for Health Study to Determine Health Impact of Mountaintop Coal Mining
Brian Tashman: Trump and Rubio's Attendance at Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Event Sends Message of Intolerance

Week Ending Aug. 19, 2016

Paul Kawika Martin: U.S. Poised to Build New Generation of Nuclear Weapons As World Marks 71 Years Since Atomic Bombing of Japan
Bob Zellner: Moral Revolution of Values Tour Carries on Civil and Human Rights Struggle
Kristen Breitweiser: 9/11 Widow Demands Investigation and Accountability for Alleged Saudi Link to Sept. 11 Attack

Week Ending Aug. 12, 2016

Chuck Collins: Inequality a Major Issue in U.S. Presidential Election Campaign, First Time in Decades
Mark Weisbrot: U.S. Legislators Question Integrity of Brazil's Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff
Claire Miller: Environmental Groups Call for Halt to New England Natural Gas Energy Conversion

Week Ending Aug. 5, 2016

Jeff Cohen: Sanders Supporters Disaffected Over Clinton's Choice of Sen. Tim Kaine as Running Mate
Frederick Clarkson: Christian Right Still Setting the Culture War Agenda for Republicans
Anne Rolfes: Grassroots Campaign Launched to End New Oil and Gas Drilling Leases in Gulf of Mexico

July

Week Ending July 29, 2016

Ben Beachy: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate, Environment, Consumer Protections
Pilar Schiavo: Bernie Sanders and Supporters Push Democratic Party to Adopt Medicare-for-All in Party Platform
Craig Aaron: Federal Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Protecting Open Internet

Week Ending July 22, 2016

Graylan Hagler: After Week's Tragic Violence, Americans Remain Divided on Issues of Police Accountability and Race
David Swanson: Britain's Chilcot Report on Iraq War Deceptions Highlights Lack of Accountability in U.K. and U.S.
Katelyn Parady: Campaign Launched to Incorporate Climate Justice Mandates in the New England Cap and Trade Program

Week Ending July 15, 2016

Scott Swenson: Does Supreme Court's Overturning Former Virginia Gov. McDonnell Graft Conviction Decriminalize Corruption?
Joshua Pribanic: Probe Sought Into Government Suppression of Link Between Water Contamination and Fracking
Andrew Hanauer: Flawed Oversight Board Formed to Address Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis Defended as Only Alternative

Week Ending July 8, 2016

Nina Eichacker: EU Austerity Policies and Dim Economic Prospects Provoked UK's Brexit Vote
Mario A. Murillo: Colombia and FARC Guerrillas Reach Agreement on Bilateral Cease-Fire
Joe Foran: Deadlocked Supreme Court Effectively Kills Obama Deportation Deferral Program

Week Ending July 1, 2016

Ladd Everitt: After Orlando, Congress Once Again Fails to Pass Measures to Reduce Gun Violence
Sarah Warbelow: Orlando Massacre the Latest in Hate Crimes Epidemic Targeting America's LGBTQ Community
Dixon Osburn: U.S. Civil Case Pursues Justice in 1973 Murder of Chilean Singer Victor Jara

June

Week Ending June 24, 2016

Stacey Hopkins: Sanders Campaign Offshoot, "Brand New Congress," Continues Political Revolution
Rachel Curley: #WeThePeople Democracy Reform Bills Target Big Money in U.S. Politics
Art Tanderup: Bold Nebraska Activists Share Tactics Which Helped Defeat Keystone XL Pipeline

Week Ending June 17, 2016

Mark Weisbrot: Latin American Left Suffers Political, Economic Setbacks, But Remains a Potent Force
Robert Howarth: Rising Levels of Methane Feed Menace of Climate Change
Irene Aguilar: Colorado Voters Could Enact Nation's First Single-Payer Health Care System this November

Week Ending June 10, 2016

Philip Weiss: Israel's Appointment of Extremist Defense Minister Triggers Alarm Around the World
Kim Fraczek: Winning Campaign by New York Anti-Pipeline Activists Could Serve as a Model Across the U.S.
Charles Lenchner: What's Next for the Movement Behind Bernie Sanders?

Week Ending June 3, 2016

Paul Kawika Martin: As Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima, Scholars Urge Action to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Becky Meier: Activists Defeat Gas Pipeline Projects, Work to Recruit NIMBY Neighbors to Climate Fight
Tariq Ali: Growing Worldwide Movement Resists Rising Economic Inequality and Austerity

May

Week Ending May 27, 2016

Maria Luisa Mendonca: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Suspended as Corrupt Conservative Parties Win Impeachment Vote
Panagioti Tsolkas: Prison Ecology Project Joins the Issues of Environmental Justice and Prisoner Rights
Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Sponsors Four Days of Civic Mobilization at "Breaking Through Power Conference"

Week Ending May 20, 2016

Ian Haney López: Is Trump's Blatant Racism an Opportunity to Build Class Solidarity?
Maxine McCleary: Philadelphia Residents Protest Proposed Expansion of Fossil Fuel Refinery in Poor Neighborhood
Alberto Saldamando: With Rising Human Rights Violations in Honduras, Activists Demand Suspension of U.S. Military Aid

Week Ending May 13, 2016

Adam Gitlin: New Voter Suppression Laws in 17 States Will Have Major Impact on 2016 Election
Mohamad Hafez: Syrian-born Architect Responds to His Nation's Bloody War Through Art
Jesse Myerson: Sanders Supporters Initiate Discussions to Transform Campaign into Progressive Movement

Week Ending May 6, 2016

Sheila Carapico: Questions on 9/11 and Dismal Human Rights Record Cast Shadow on U.S.-Saudi Relationship
James Hansen: Climate Scientist Promotes Carbon Fee and Dividend System to Reduce Burning of Fossil Fuels
Antonia Juhasz: Six Years After BP Oil Spill Disaster, Public Opinion Turns Against Dangerous Deep Water Oil Drilling

April

Week Ending April 29, 2016

Carl Takei: ACLU Sues for Bureau of Prisons Documents on Approval of CIA Torture Site
Arabelle Schoenberg: In a Symbolic Step, Yale Partially Divests from Fossil Fuels
Sonali Kolhatkar: French 'Stay Up All Night' Movement Gathers Momentum to Challenge Economic Status Quo

Week Ending April 22, 2016

James S. Henry: Panama Papers Reveal How the World's Rich and Powerful Hide Their Wealth
James Hansen: Climate Change is Worse Than You Thought
Margrete Strand Rangnes: Democracy Awakening Actions Demand Reforms to Rein in Big Money's Influence in U.S. Politics