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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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

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 1 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.

Jeremy Scahill keynote speech, part 2 from PROUDEYEMEDIA on Vimeo.

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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.

Listen to audio of the plenary sessions from the weekend.

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.

Listen to Scott Harris Live on WPKN Radio

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2012 Left Forum "Occupy The System: Confronting Global Capitalism"

Between The Lines' select audio recordings from the 2012 Left Forum

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Audio from panels and plenary sessions. For information or questions, about these panels, email us.

Between The Lines' Sponsored Panel Discussions

MP3: March 17 "Evolution to Revolution: The Path to Systemic Change in American Society," panel discussion by Gar Alperovitz, Chris Rude, Amin Husain, Laura Gottesdiener, with introductions by Richard Hill, Between The Lines, producer. (See full description.)
MP3: March 17 "Occupying in Latin America: Social Movements Taking Over Land, Factories and Schools" panel discussion by Michael Fox, Esneider Arevalo and Nathan Schneider, with introductions by Scott Harris, Between The Lines, executive producer. (See full description.)

Select Plenary Session Speeches

MP3: March 17 Keynote speech by Michael Moore. Introduction by Richard D. Wolff, economist
MP3: March 16 Opening plenary speech by Rose Ann DeMoro. Introduction by Stanley Aronowitz, professor of sociology
MP3: March 18 Closing plenary speech by Arun Gupta.
MP3: March 18 Closing plenary speech by John Holloway.
MP3: March 18 Closing plenary speech by Chris Hedges.
MP3: March 18 Closing plenary speech by Elaine Bernard.

Select Panel Discussions

MP3: March 18 "Making Media, Making Trouble: The Role of Journalists in Social Movements," with Joan Donovan, Nathan Schneider, Laurie Penny aka "Penny Red" and Arun Gupta.
MP3: March 18 "Why I Call Myself a Socialist," with Wallace Shawn.

MP3: March 17 "Occupying in Latin America: Social Movements Taking Over Land, Factories and Schools"

latinamerica While the Occupy Movement has taken the world by storm, a long history of different types of social movement occupations have marked Latin America for decades. This panel draws connections between the Occupy Movement in the US and its historical and contemporary counterparts in Latin America. Participants will discuss Brazil's landless farmer movement, the occupation of factories and businesses in Argentina following the country's 2001 economic crisis, the occupation of land by farmers and urban activists in Paraguay and today's powerful student movement in Chile, which has occupied the streets and schools of the nation. This panel will look at the distant and recent history of occupying as a short- and long-term tactic of the some of the most powerful social movements in the hemisphere, and tie it to today's struggles emerging out of the global Occupy Movement.

Chair: Scott Harris, co-founder and executive producer of Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine, a 21-year-old syndicated weekly public affairs program broadcast on 50+ stations across the U.S. He has been active in Latin American issues since first being involved in the Central American solidarity movements of the 1980s and founded the Norwalk, CT - Nagarote, Nicaragua Sister City Project which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011.

Panelists:

Michael Fox, above left, is the editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas. He has worked for many years as a freelance journalist, radio reporter, and documentary filmmaker covering Latin America. He is the co-author of Venezuela Speaks!: Voices From the Grassroots (PM Press, 2010) and the co-director of the documentary films Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas and Crossing the American Crises: From Collapse to Action, both available through PM Press.

Nathan Schneider, above right, is an editor of WagingNonviolence.org, for which he began covering the planning of Occupy Wall Street in August of 2011. His writing about the Occupy movement has appeared in The Occupied Wall Street Journal, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, Tidal, the Boston Review, and elsewhere.

Esneider Arevalo, above, center, is a NYC-based member of Friends of the MST, a network of individuals and organizations that support the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) in the struggle for social and economic justice while securing respect for human rights. Esneider is a native of Colombia and has been active in Latin America solidarity work for more than two decades; he joined FMST after working directly with the MST in Brazil in 2003.

MP3: March 17 "From Evolution to Revolution: The Path to Systemic Change in American Society"

evolutionrevolution This panel examined different modalities of political and economic change called for by the Occupy movements -- from incremental reform to radical transformation. Panelists attempted to answer the question: What type of change is needed to address the full gamut of failed policies and structures in our broken system -- from corporate control of the political process, to environmental degradation, a crumbling infrastructure, economic disparity, a failed health care system, etc. Can these problems be tackled incrementally or only through radical structural change and central planning?

Chair: Richard Hill, above right, has been a producer at WPKN in Bridgeport, CT, for the past 20 years. His music, culture and public affairs shows have included interviews and discussions with hundreds of political activists, scholars, public figures, artists and musicians. He teaches a course in media literacy at an arts magnet high school in New Haven and produces a high school radio show (Youth Radio CT) that airs on WPKN and is posted at www.youthradioct.org.

Panelists:

Gar Alperovitz, above, second from left, is a historian, political economist, activist and writer. He is currently the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvard’s Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book is titled, "America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy."

Chris Rude, above, left, is a political economist with an interest in finance. He has taught economics at New York University and the New School and political science at York University in Toronto. Prior to this, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on Wall Street. He has a doctorate in economics from the New School and a master's and bachelor's in political science from the University of Chicago. He currently serves on Union for Radical Political Economics’ Steering Committee and is active in the Occupation.

Amin Husain, above, third from left, is an organizer with Occupy Wall Street, starting in the months preceding the occupation. He has a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University and a master's in law degree from Columbia University. Amin practiced corporate finance at a large law firm in NYC for five years before leaving law to study art at the Whitney Independent Study program. Prior to coming to the United States, Amin lived in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and was active in the first Palestinian uprising.

Laura Gottesdiener, above, second from right, is an organizer with Occupy Wall Street. During the occupation, she was active in the functioning of the park, and she is now involved in action planning and media creation, including editing the theory magazine Tidal and creating online platforms. She has worked as a journalist for a variety of independent and mainstream platforms, including The Arizona Republic, Ms. magazine, The Huffington Post and even, briefly, a News Corp. subsidiary. Through journalism and her travels, she has worked in a Buenos Aires discotech, for an art therapy program in a men's psychiatric hospital, as a pedicab driver in Central Park, for a pig farm in New Zealand and at what she thought was a coffee farm in Hawaii. She holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University.