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Between the Lines for January 1, 2025 by WPKN Community Radio

* Trump's Frighteningly Bizarre Cabinet Nominees May Get Free Ride From Frightened GOP Senators; Heather Digby Parton, a contributing writer to Salon.com; Producer: Scott Harris. * Ralph Nader Assesses Election Outcome, Democrats' Multiple Failures; Ralph Nader America’s leading public interest lawyer & four-time independent presidential candidate; Producer: Scott Harris. * Human Rights, Religious Groups Call on Biden to Clear Federal Death Row Before Trump Takes Office; Robin Maher, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center; Producer: Melinda Tuhus

* Eight Ways to Respond to Trump Election Victory Over the Next 4 Years; David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party & Author; Producer: Scott Harris. * Trump Voters Should Try to Understand Americans Who Oppose Their Convicted Felon President; Wajahat Ali, author and creator of The Left Hook Substack; Producer: Scott Harris. * Activists Demand NY Gov. Hochul Sign Law to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Costs; Sheldon Pollock, Retired Professor at Columbia University and Activist with Third Act; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

Laura Modlin interviews Andrew Kupinse about preserving zoning in Easton, CT to protect the water supply in the town’s four reservoirs. They serve 100s of thousands of customers in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Originally aired December 1, 2024.

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* How To Explain Voter’s Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?; Amy Littlefield, The Nation magazine's abortion access correspondent; Producer: Scott Harris. * Women's March Organizing first major Protest Jan 18th to Challenge Trump Regime 2.0; Tamika Middleton, Managing Director of Women's March; Producer: Scott Harris. * Protesters Disrupt FERC Hearing Highlighting the Climate Crisis Before Trump Dismantles Climate Regulations; Teagan Blackburn and Teya Blackburn-Baker, Climate Activists; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

-Delhi’ India’s air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily -Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland, flooding, downed trees, power outages nationwide. -U S Northwest battered by storms -Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop. -Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield -10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea -Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, works against climate agreement

* How Democrats' Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More Years; Rachel Bitecofer, political strategist, analyst and author; Producer: Scott Harris. * Merrick Garland's Delay in Prosecuting Trump Paved the Way to Establish His Mafia Regime; Sarah Kendzior author and co-host of the Gaslit Nation weekly podcast; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Continues US Labor Movement Stands in Solidarity with the Palestinian People; Sultana Hossain, Recording Secretary Amazon Labor Union, Co-chair New York Labor for Palestine; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

The Resistance Roundtable show interviews Branko Marcetic who discusses his recent Jacobin Magazine articles on Biden's horrific Gaza policy; and the apparent decision by the Harris campaign to keep Tim Walz off the campaign trail. Interview by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner, Oct. 12, 2024

On the October 20, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is in conversation with Barbara Fair, LCSW, a community organizer and founding member of Stop Solitary CT. Barbara and Stop Solitary CT are currently calling for justice for J’Allen Jones, a 32 year-old community member who died in Department of Correction custody in 2018, in a horrifying and devastating situation. Barbara Fair can be reached at: barbfair848@gmail.com. More info on Stop Solitary CT at: www.stopsolitaryct.org/ x.com/stopsolitaryct www.instagram.com/stopsolitaryct/ More info on the death of J'Allen Jones at: https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/jallen-jones-ct-garner-prison-death-video-lawsuit-19813830.php https://www.wfsb.com/2024/10/18/frustration-growing-over-death-inmate-activists-call-video-incident-be-released/#:~:text=for%20video%20of-,incident,-to%20be%20released https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/hartford/activist-gather-at-department-of-corrections-in-wethersfield-to-protest-2018-death-of-an-inmate/ https://www

Leonard Aguilar, secretary-treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO talks about the strategies and prospects for this massive organized labor body. Hosted by Michael Zweig and Richard Hill, Oct. 1, 2024

-Hurricane Milton destroys 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost -“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency -Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble -Pesticides aren't always necessary -United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane -Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered. -India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs -12% of Rep’s, and 59% of Dem’s, say must address climate change

Host: Duo Dickinson Wednesday October 16, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org A century of top-down architectural determination is over. Regimes of conferring worth via station and prestige have been replaced with the number of “likes” and “followers” accruing as if the entire world is one polling station. We have reached intellectual democratization, where popularity trumps insights (good or bad) – our world is becoming unending popularity contests and beauty pageants, where everyone is the judge and the contestant – “the most eyeballs wins”. So much so that the remaining organizations are trying to ban Tik Tok, control Artificial Intelligence and social media and limit access based on age. But the cow has left the barn. As a result, in architecture, the Starchitect, the image of the Power of Style has left the building. All media is losing its editorial guardrails as the internet’s overwhelming universal, free and open access to exposing every and any aspect of everyone’s life becomes the basis of cu

* Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine Producer: Scott Harris * Under Trump Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief Andra Watkins, a New York Times bestselling author Producer: Scott Harris * If Completed the East African Oil Pipeline Will be a Destructive ‘Carbon Bomb’ Nico Udu-Gama, US Partnerships Coordinator at 350.org Producer: Melinda Tuhus

Director of Agriculture at CitySeed in New Haven which we talked about on a previous segment which you can hear in our podcasts section if you missed it. Kaitlyn is Owner of Sunset Organic farm in Naugatuck Ct. she is back to talk to me now about some of the issues farmers are facing due to some of this extraordinary weather many of us are experiencing.

Jeff Masters (Hurricane Expert, Yale Climate Connection), Kaitlyn Kimball (Director of Agriculture for Cityseed, New Haven), James Blanchfield (Wilton, Connecticut Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director)

Laura Modlin interviews Bill Lucey, Soundkeeper for the Long Island Sound with Save the Sound, about eels migrating out to the North Atlantic after decades spent in Connecticut's rivers and streams and what they encounter here. Aired October 6, 2024.

* US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon; Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org; Producer: Scott Harris. * Corporate Media is 'Sanewashing' Trump's Obvious Cognitive Decline; Parker Malloy, publisher of the Present Age newsletter, fmr editor-at-large w Media Matters 4 America; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast US, Fossil Fuel’s Destructive Infrastructure Impacts Rural Communities; Sydney Collins, climate activist, speaking at a Stop Project Maple rally in Hartford, in CT late Sept; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal -90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded -Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems -24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies: -Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change -Home insurance companies pulling out of risky states. -Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

Friday October 4, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Host: Peggy Nelson Part 1: Hot Spots – events in our area. Part 2: Director and actor Mike Boland discussing his film “Yo, Andrea”. Part 3: A conversation with Bridgeport artist Julia Contacessi Part 4: A tribute to Gavin Creel