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

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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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Young Activist Explains Her Deep Commitment to Reverse Climate Change

Posted Nov. 12, 2014

Interview with Sean Glenn, climate change activist and Great March for Climate Action participant, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

The first week of November saw daily nonviolent civil disobedience actions at the offices of FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in Washington, D.C. The protest was organized by a group called Beyond Extreme Energy. Activists from the shale fields of Pennsylvania joined dozens of supporters in an effort to block entrances to the building to protest FERC's approval of almost all the natural gas infrastructure proposals that come before it.

In evaluating the projects, the commission does not consider the source of the energy, so the fact that the natural gas is produced by the fracking extraction method – with its attendant environmental and health impacts – is not a factor in FERC's decisions. Nor is the role natural gas plays in exacerbating climate change. Environmental critics charge that far from being a "bridge to a clean energy future," the construction of gas pipelines, compressor stations and export terminals is locking in the use of fossil fuels for decades to come.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus, who participated in the week of actions, interviewed Sean Glenn, a young woman who walked across the country with the Great March for Climate Action from March 1 to Nov. 1, when the group and its many supporters walked the last seven miles to the White House for a rally. The stated goal of the Great March for Climate Action was to change the hearts and minds of the American people, elected leaders and people across the world to act now to address the climate crisis. Here, Glenn explains her motivation for getting involved in the march, why she walked the first three months in silence and her decision to be arrested twice in three days by engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience.

SEAN GLENN: First of all, it was really, really easy. I actually really enjoyed it and found a whole level of comfort in it that I've never really felt before. I decided to do it for many reasons: to stand in solidarity with the unheard victims of climate change, which I was feeling like one of those; the plants, animals, people living in islands all over the place – I mean everyone, really, at this point, because climate change is a global issue and no one's really listening to that. And I wasn't ready to fight my way across the country, screaming about climate change and all the terrible things that are happening, because I was in school and I was just terribly depressed with the state of the world and the fact that no one was listening or ready to do anything about it. So those were the main two reasons for me. And also, we talk about stuff like this so much, and what are these words actually doing? To a certain extent, it's time to make a change rather than just keep talking about it over and over again. Yeah, it was a time of finding more peace within myself and a really great healing moment for myself and it was time to step back from my own story and let other people kind of build my story a little bit. They just really helped me to build this really happy, loving, peaceful, ready-to-go person, and I'm entirely humbled and grateful for the community for supporting me in my decision to do that, and so happy that they decided to help me carry it throughout the country when I decided it was time to speak.

BETWEEN THE LINES: I think that's really great. I've never tried that, but I can see that it could be really powerful. So, skipping ahead eight months, the march finished, well, marched in from Bethesda to the White House, which was a mere seven miles, because I know you did some days that were three times that long, and a lot of people joined you, including myself. That was my one and only day on the march. What was it like for you to finish the march in D.C.?

SEAN GLENN: It was an awesome day, our last day into D.C. This is our last day marching together, and this has been our life for eight months. But it was beautiful and I was just so ready to be there with everybody, and I know everyone was just tired, too. I think it was time for the march to end, and it was time for everybody to move on to the next step. It's been a huge growing experience and learning experience as far as what we think will really work in this movement and what we really feel we need to do as individuals in this movement. So, yeah, coming into D.C. it was really beautiful; there were people everywhere. I'm just so grateful I was given this opportunity and so happy I took it.

BETWEEN THE LINES: Well, speaking of BXE, Beyond Extreme Energy, and your participation all week here. It's been a very intense week. The last day of the march was Saturday and then you had a celebration that night, and then there was an all-day training on Sunday, and then people have been at FERC – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – early every single morning this week, and it was sort of the culmination today, which was an amazing day, which you had a big part it, and you and Mack and Margaret got arrested again this morning. And that was pretty exciting because this was the last day of the activities and the group, Beyond Extreme Energy, was trying to shut down FERC because of its approvals of almost every natural gas project – fracked gas project – that comes before it. And so five of you locked down inside lock boxes, which are PVC pipes that you stick your arms into from both ends, and have to be cut out, basically – and took over the garage, just blockaded that. And that basically shut things down, like people couldn't get in – it was like if it was closed there, all the employees sort of bubbled up all around the front door and all across the street and they were all mixed in with the protesters and gave everyone a chance to have conversations, some of which were not confrontational (some were). Why did you decide to get arrested twice in three days?

SEAN GLENN: (Laughs) Well, it just seems like this is where we're at in this movement right now. We really need people willing to put themselves on the line, willing to serve time or pay money or do whatever we got to do to stop these projects, whether it's in an office signing on a "yes" to construction zone or going to the construction and actually halting the whole progress and the whole destruction of the land there and the communities and everything. In marching across the country, that's the one thing I learned I was very ready to do. I've done marches before. I've participated in rallies my whole life; and I've been knocking on doors and filling out petitions and all that. And, it's all good work; it's definitely good work. But I was just so ready to see something stop right in front of me for my own being there. It really is something I can't wait to do more of (laughs). And it's just an opportunity to use this physical body we're given to do some really good work and actually slow things down.

For more information on the FERC protests and related issues, visit Climatemarch.org.