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.
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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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"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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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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Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray, author, activist and organizer of Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project, conducted by Scott Harris
In quick succession in recent weeks, the nation was jolted into remembering the ongoing and urgent issue of police violence in communities of color. On Friday, Sept. 16, Tulsa, Oklahoma police said that when they responded to a report of an abandoned vehicle in the middle of the road, four officers confronted a 40-year-old black man, Terence Crutcher, who walked toward his vehicle with his hands up. Police said that when Crutcher refused to follow their commands, one officer shot him with a stun gun. Simultaneously, a white officer on the scene fired one round of live ammunition, killing the father of four. That officer, Betty Jo Shelby, was later indicted on charges of first-degree manslaughter.
Several days later, another police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, set off days of street protests that resulted in smashed windows and violence that led to another civilian-on-civilian shooting death. On Sept. 20, police said that while looking to serve a warrant on an unrelated person, they spotted Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man, exit his vehicle with a gun, then get back into the car. When police ordered him out of the car, a black plainclothes officer fired four shots, killing Scott. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets demanding release of the police video recording of the incident. However, when the two tapes were released, there was general agreement that the recording shed little light on whether or not the shooting was justified.
In response to police violence and his view of unchecked racial injustice in the U.S., San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, engaged in a silent protest by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in late August. In response, he's been attacked as unpatriotic, received death threats, but has also been favorably compared by some to Muhammad Ali for taking a courageous stand on the issues of social justice. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Kevin Alexander Gray, a journalist, author and activist living in South Carolina. Here, Gray examines the new role some professional U.S. athletes have taken on, becoming active on the issues of racial justice.
Kevin Alexander Gray is a journalist and organizer with the Harriet Tubman Freedom House Project in South Carolina. Gray is co-editor of the book, "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence." For more perspectives from Kevin Alexander Gray, visit kevinalexandergray.com/.
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