Monday, October 27, 2008

Tonight on COUNTERPOINT

8:00 pm Counterpoint with host Scott Harris. This week's guests:
  • Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and winner of the 2007 Puffin-Nation Prize for creative citizenship, discusses his new book, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld," and the state of human rights in the U.S. at the end of the Bush presidency.
  • Bob Fitrakis, an Ohio attorney who has been active in protecting the integrity of recent elections, assesses the GOP effort to suppress votes in Ohio and other battleground states.
  • Author and syndicated columnist Norman Solomon, looks at progressive candidates running for Congress in this year's election and the potential to win long-fought for legislative battles in the years ahead.
  • Jon Green, executive director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, talks about his group's list of endorsed candidates -- and beyond the election the issues they are working to rise in the state legislature.
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