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16:44

‘Good Trouble Lives On’ Nationwide Pro-Democracy...

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2025/07/17

Interview with Debra, an organizer with the group Indivisible Amity, Connecticut -- and Tom of the Indivisible chapter in Orange, Connecticut, conducted by Scott Harris.Indivisible organizers Debra and Tom discuss plans for the Thursday, July 17 “Good Trouble Lives On Rally” — with speakers and music on the New Haven Green in downtown New Haven, CT from 6 to 7 pm. This event, part of the day’s some 1,000+ protests nationwide, is being organized in response to the attacks on our civil and

13:18

‘No Kings Day’ June 14th, Anti-Trump Protester...

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2025/07/17

Interviews with several participants in the pro-democracy, anti-Trump ‘No Kings Day’ June 14, 2025, protests in Trumbull and Newtown CT, conducted by Scott Harris.The ‘No Kings Day’ protests involved 2,100 protest sites across the U.S. and attracted the participation of an estimated 5 million protesters.

17:53

Trump is Carrying Out an Explicitly White Supremacist...

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2025/07/17

Interview with Kali Holloway is columnist for The Nation and the former director of the Make It Right Project, a national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history, conducted by Scott Harris.Kali Holloway discusses her recent articles on white supremacy and the Trump regime, with a focus on the multiple ways Trump has carried out an explicitly racist, white supremacist agenda. She also addresses corporate media’s failure to call out Trump’s racism, while

27:34

Corporate Media’s Surrender to Trump a Wake-up Call...

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2025/07/17

Interview with Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center.Victor Pickard discusses the important issues examined in his recent Nation magazine article, “The Media’s Profits Trump Democracy, Once Again,” with Paramount’s settlement with Trump as a symptom of deep structural rot in our corporate media system. In his analysis, Pickard goes

6:07

First Stop Cop City Protester Trial in Georgia RICO...

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2025/07/10

Interview with Xavier de Janon, an attorney representing one of 61 ‘Stop Cop City’ defendants in Atlanta, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Xavier de Janon, an attorney representing one of the 61 defendants. Here, he discusses the status of the cases and the serious possible sentences — up to 20 years in prison — that await any who are convicted. On July 7, a few days after this interview was conducted, the judge in King’s case declared a mistrial,

13:36

After Federal Budget Slashed, Connecticut Agency...

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2025/07/10

Interview with Maggie Mitchell Salem, executive director of Connecticut-based IRIS, Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, conducted by Scott Harris.Maggie Mitchell Salem discusses the impact of the Trump administration’s new immigration policies on IRIS services, as well as federal funds revoked or withdrawn from IRIS’ budget. She also talks about her group’s latest Know Your Rights campaign that was launched on the July 4th weekend, and other projects and services local listeners can

18:03

Trump Pardoned-Indicted Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Hired...

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2025/07/10

Interview with Teddy Wilson, a journalist, researcher and publisher of the Radical Reports newsletter on the far right, conducted by Scott Harris.Teddy Wilson talks about indicted Jan. 6 insurrectionist Jared L. Wise’s appointment as a counselor to Ed Martin, director of the so-called Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group. Wilson also discusses investigations he’s conducted in his “Pardon Tracker” series regarding the alarming activities of insurrectionists and other convicted

17:36

ICE Budget Spikes 365%: Evidence of Trump Move to...

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2025/07/10

Interview with Chris Lehmann, the DC Bureau chief for The Nation magazine and a contributing editor at The Baffler, conducted by Scott Harris.Chris Lehmann discusses the important and timely issues examined in his recent Nation article, “Trump’s Big Bill is Building a Big Police State,” explaining that “with more than $150 billion in outlays to expand the horrific surveillance, detention and rendition regime created under the Laken Riley Act, the measure will carry out Trump’s pledge to

27:50

Trump-GOP Budget: 17 Million Americans Lose Health...

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2025/07/10

Interview with Dr. Adam W. Gaffney, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus on Children.Dr. Adam W. Gaffney and Bruce Lesley discuss the expected overall healthcare impact of the Trump-GOP federal budget bill just passed by Congress that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare, will take away millions of poor families’ access to food and nutrition programs and close hundreds of community and rural hospitals. Both will also

35:33

Monthly Labor Report -- July, 2025: The War On...

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2025/07/07

The Monthly Labor Report welcomes Nadia Marin-Molina, executive director of NDLON, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, to discuss the crisis, the activism, and the fight-back we are witnessing as the right-wing attack on immigrants (both documented and undocumented) reaches critical mass around the country. The conversation includes Michael Zweig, economist and labor historian, who brings his decades of experience as a labor and civil rights activist to bear on analyzing this

5:42

North Carolina Neighbors Put Mutual Aid to Work in...

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2025/07/04

Interview with Padma Dyvine, a survivor of Hurricane Helene from Bat Cave, North Carolina, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus visited friends in the area in June and saw firsthand some of the damage and ongoing recovery efforts. Padma Dyvine and her husband, who live in the hamlet of Bat Cave, were airlifted from their home by helicopter when fallen trees blocked their ability to leave their home and get supplies. The couple spent 55 days as refugees, moving back

16:03

Unconstitutional ‘Disaster Looms’ After Supreme...

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2025/07/03

Interview with Dulce Guzman, executive director of Alianza Americas, conducted by Scott Harris.Dulce Guzman discusses her group, Alianza Americas’ response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, without addressing the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. She’ll also discuss the next steps in defending the U.S. Constitution from the Trump regime’s authoritarian rule.

17:11

Zohran Mamdani’s Surprise Victory in New York City’s...

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2025/07/03

Interview with India Walton, senior strategist with RootsAction.org, conducted by Scott Harris.India Walton discusses Zohran Mamdani’s apparent and historic victory in the New York City primary election, and the attacks and obstacles he’ll likely face in the general election campaign as the Democratic party establishment, their corporate allies, and Wall Street attempt to smear Zohran as a “dangerous Muslim socialist.”Walton won the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, N.Y. in 2021, but

18:53

Why Evangelicals Want Trump to Go to War with Iran

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2025/07/03

Interview with Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon.com and author of "Troll Nation: How the Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set on Rat-F*cking Liberals, America and Truth Itself." Amanda Marcotte talks about her recent commentary, “Evangelicals Push Trump into Conflict with Iran,” making the case that the Christian Right remains Trump’s most important constituency.

26:42

Fighting the Trump GOP Mafia State Attack on the...

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2025/07/03

Interview with Sarah Kendzior, author of four best-selling books including, “They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent,” and her latest, "The Last American Road Trip," conducted by Scott Harris.Sarah talks about the Trump-GOP mafia state’s aggressive attack on the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law and dissent, as the regime deploys National Guard troops and the Marines to U.S. cities and instigates war (with Israel) against Iran.

55:19

Resistance Roundtable for June 14, 2025 - No Kings...

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2025/06/28

Resistance Round Table is broadcast on WPKN the 2nd Saturday of each month where we engage in conversation about local and nationwide organizing for a more just and democratic America during this pivotal and dangerous moment in our nation's history.Show hosts are: Ruth Anne Baumgartner, a longtime instructor in literature and writing at Central Connecticut State University, member of the executive Committee of the CT Conference of the American Association of University Professors. Richard

6:23

As Veterans’ 40-Day Fast for Gaza Nears End,...

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2025/06/27

Interview with Mike Ferner, former director and former chair of the board of Veterans for Peace, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Mike Ferner, a former national director of Veterans for Peace who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, later discharged as a conscientious objector. Ferner began the fast with the others, but was forced to drop out after 21 days due to health reasons. Here he talks about his hope that the fast will draw attention to the

14:55

Danbury CT Activists Organize Community to Protest...

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2025/06/26

Interview with Carolina Bortolleto, co-founder of Connecticut Students for a Dream, and Juliana Soares, immigrant rights activist, conducted by Scott Harris.Carolina Bortolleto and Juliana Soares discuss recent ICE deportation raids in Danbury and elsewhere in Connecticut, the Danbury community’s response and demands issued by Danbury Unites for Immigrants, a collective of local immigrant community leaders.

17:51

Democrats Must Adopt Progressive Economic Agenda to...

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2025/06/26

Interview with Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author, conducted by Scott Harris.Norman Solomon talks about the recent massive June 14th nationwide anti-Trump protests and his recent commentary, “No Kings Day’ Was Historic: Now We Need a Powerful — and Independent — Movement Against Trump,” discussing the strategies and tactics necessary to stop the Trump-GOP march toward fascism.

20:09

Trump-MAGA’s Embrace of Political Violence Kills

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2025/06/26

Interview with David Schultz, distinguished professor in the departments of political science, environmental studies and legal studies at Hamline University, conducted by Scott Harris.David Schultz discusses his recent Counterpunch article, “The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works,” recounting how violence has played a critical role in shaping history across the world and here in the U.S. He examines Donald Trump’s and the Republican party’s embrace and normalization of political

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