Passionate policy advocates decipher food security and a farmland access bills, both up for a vote in CT this spring & let us know how and why to get involved. Guests include Reggy St. Fortcolin of Fridgeport and the Liberated Land Cooperative, Chelsea Gazillo of Working Lands Alliance and American Farmland Trust, and James Albis of Graff Public Solutions and a former State Representative for District 99. We discuss the ins and outs of the legislative process plus Bills: SB 1418: An Act Reducing Barriers to Food Security & HB 5064 Is An Act Concerning An Option To Purchase Restricted Agricultural Lands at Agricultural Value which will create a larger land access program at the CT Department of Agriculture. For a simple language breakdown and details on how to get involved in the food security bill, check out this fab link tree - and for regular folk language of the farmland access bill check the Working Lands Alliance 2025 Priorities. Go to www.thetableunderground.com for more info. We are happy to broadcast on WPKN community radio, 89.5fm in Bridgeport, CT

COUNTERPOINT RADIO, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 – 9:30 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.orgSome segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 - podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of current and past Counterpoint interviews are accessible for free at our Counterpoint Radio web site: http://counterpointradio.org The full 1.5 hour unedited program can be accessed for a 2 week period after the show, at the WPKN Radio archives: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/search/counterpoint1) Confronting the Reality of Trump's Repugnant White Supremacist AgendaTim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, “A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators is author of  nine books, including his latest, "Dispatches from the Race War."  He'll assess Trump and "Trumpism" since his inauguration on January 20th, with a focus on the twice impeached convicted felon's attempt to repeal civil rights law, the legalization of discrimination and effort to eradicate DEI in the federal government, while coercing states and universities to also eliminate DEI or lose federal funding. 2) Trump-Musk Sabotage of Social Security Designed to Hasten the System's PrivatizationSam Pizzigati, veteran labor journalist, Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, co-editor of IPS' newsletter Inequality.org, and author, discusses his recent article, "Could Elon Musk Actually Destroy Social Security as We Know It? -- and issues related to the Trump-Musk attempt to sabotage Social Security's reliability and smooth operation over 88 years, and the millions of Americans who are now angry and becoming active in resisting the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the nation's social safety net. 3) ICE Attempt to Deport International Students, First Step to Repress Free Speech for AllDr. Nader Hashemi, director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University, discusses the campus response to the ICE arrest and attempt to deport Georgetown Univ. researcher and instructor Badar Khan Suri, alleging he has "close connections" to a Hamas official -- as well as similar arrests of a growing number of other international students across the U.S. He'll also update our listeners on growing IDF, Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, and Israel's breaking of the Gaza ceasefire and its resumption of its bloody war that's already killed more than 50,000 Palestinians. 4) Trump's Unconstitutional Executive Order to Change US Voting System Would Disenfranchise MillionsFilmmaker and journalist Greg Palast, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," discusses his recent article, "Trump-Musk order will cost 21 million their vote," re: Donald Trump's March 25th executive order that restructures the way Americans can register to vote and when they can cast their ballots, an unlawful edict that will face legal challenges for encroaching on state powers outlined in the U.S. Constitution.