Monday, February 12, 2007

Tonight on Counterpoint

8:00 p.m. - Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris

  • Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch, who talks about his group's 17 year campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, (now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), through vigils, fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest.
  • A representative of VoteVets.org who describes the U.S. veterans group's effort to oppose President Bush's escalation of the Iraq war through lobbying and TV advertising.
  • Jeffrey Chester, founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, discusses his new book, "Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy."
  • Dan Schulman, a contributing writer with Mother Jones magazine, examines the new drive by financial investors to privatize America's highways.

An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://www.whiterosesociety.org/ Some segments of Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine. Technorati tags: , , ,