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.
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2013 Left Forum "Mobilizing for Ecological and Economic Transformation"
Between The Lines' select audio recordings from the 2013 Left Forum
LeftForum.org
Audio from panels and plenary sessions. For information or questions, about these panels, email us.
Between The Lines' Sponsored Panel Discussions
- June 8 "Toward Building a Strategic Alliance Between the Worker Cooperative and Progressive Social Movements," panel discussion with Gar Alperovitz, Brendan Martin, Leah Hunt Hendrix and Maliha Safri (See full description and audio recordings)
- June 9 "Foundations of Economic Justice: Low-wage Workers Forward!" panel discussion with Josh Eidelson, Michael Zweig, Catherine Ruetschlin, Joseph Barrera, Shenita Simon and Amelia Adams (See full description and audio recordings)
Select Plenary Session Speeches
- A speech by 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein at the opening plenary session of the 2013 Left Forum in New York City, on the conference theme: "Mobilizing for Ecological and Economic Transformation" (28:36)
- A speech by Noam Chomsky provides a global political analysis on this year's Left Forum conference theme "Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation". Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today.(1:07:06)
June 8 "Toward Building a Strategic Alliance Between the Worker Cooperative and Progressive Social Movements"
This workshop provided an overview of the potential of the cooperative movement in the U.S. and around the world, while examining the ways in which a strategic alliance between the worker cooperative and progressive movements could advance the development and expansion of cooperatives through the active promotion of government preferential treatment and incentives as well as the establishment of new institutions to provide capital resources and technical support.
Panelists:
- MP3: Introduction by Scott Harris, above right, co-founder and executive producer of Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine, a 22-year-old syndicated weekly public affairs program broadcast on 50+ stations across the U.S. He also has been the host of a live two-hour show Counterpoint, on WPKN Radio since the mid-1980s. He is followed by Brendan Martin, above, seated at left, president, founder and international director of the Working World, which finances businesses that are owned and run by their workers, extending democracy to the workplace. Having worked on Wall Street for 10 years, Brendan spent much of the past seven years establishing cooperatives in Argentina and Nicaragua and now works in New York City. (20:20)
- MP3: Leah Hunt-Hendrix, above, top, seated, second from left, EDGE Funders Alliance, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University in the Religion, Ethics, and Politics program. She is an advisor to the Sister Fund, and is on the board of Free Speech for People, an organization dedicated to restraining the over-extension of corporate power and the role of money in politics, and the EDGE Funders Alliance, a funder affinity group committed to supporting trans-local and global social movements. (9:39)
- MP3: Maliha Safri, above, standing by podium, assistant professor in the economics department at Drew University, has taught and published on political economy and migration. Her articles have appeared in Signs, the Middle East Journal, and a recent piece in the Economist’s Voice, “The Economics of Occupation.” Maliha is involved with popular education seminars at the Center For Popular Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has been active with worker cooperatives in the NY & NJ metropolitan area. (13:52)
- MP3: Gar Alperovitz, below, seated, at right, political economist,
historian and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, a research institute developing strategies to build community wealth, including a groundbreaking network of worker cooperatives in Cleveland. In addition to his work as a leader in the new economy movement, he is an acclaimed historian of the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and author of numerous books, most recently, "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution." (13:45)
June 9 "Foundations of Economic Justice: Low-wage Workers Forward!"
The panel explored strategies and transformative potentials for the low-wage workers movement. Panelists shared their experiences and perspectives as labor and grassroots organizers, journalists and workers on the front lines of this movement for economic justice.
Chair: Richard Hill 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:
- MP3: Introduction by Richard Hill, Between The Lines producer, followed by Michael Zweig, professor of Economics at Stony Brook University and is the director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life. He is the author of The Working Class Majority (Cornell)among many other books and articles.
- MP3: Josh Eidelson, a freelance journalist who has covered the struggle of Walmart and other low-wage workers. His articles have appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, Salon, In These Times among others.
- MP3: Catherine Ruetschlin, policy analyst at DEMOS and the author of the November, 2012 report: Retail's Hidden Potential -- How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy -- among many other studies.
- MP3: Joseph Barrera, KFC worker; New York Communities for Change."
- MP3: Shanita Simon, KFC worker; NY Communities for Change.
- MP3: Amelia Adams, deputy director of NY Communities for Change.
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