WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast

Interview with Osprey Orielle Lake, founder and executive director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, WECAN, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Many of WECAN's members, including frontline women leaders from around the world, have participated in previous UN climate summit meetings and will be involved in this conference as well. They will be participating in discussions to propose solutions to t...

Interview with Steve Phillips, host of the Democracy in Color podcast and author of Are White Men Smarter than Everybody Else?, conducted by Scott Harris. Steve Phillips, the best-selling author of Brown Is the New White and How We Win the Civil War , talks about his new book, Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else? observing that just six years after the racial reckoning that followed the murd...

Interview with Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and president of One Fair Wage, director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley and author of One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America, conducted by Scott Harris. Saru Jayaraman talks about the #Next250 national mobilization coinciding with the U.S. 250th anniversary, where a massive gathering is planned in Washi...

Interview with Rebecca Roberts, a member and organizing manager of About Face: Veterans Against the War, conducted by Scott Harris. National Guard veteran Rebecca Roberts discusses the work she and others do at About Face providing guidance and advice to active-duty U.S. military servicemen and women navigating their rights of conscience and seeking conscientious objector status during the current...

Interview with Kevin Martin, president of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, the nation’s largest grassroots peace network with chapters and affiliates in states across the U.S., conducted by Scott Harris. Kevin Martin talks about what his and other anti-war groups are doing to oppose Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s illegal war in Iran and Lebanon, action being taken to pressu...

Excerpt of press conference by Bishop William Barber, founding director of the Yale University Divinity School's Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus. The Center held a three-day conference, April 12-14, titled: “What are the Moral and Spiritual Issues of the 2026 Elections?” On the last day of the conference Bishop Barber's press conference responde...

Interview with Steve Posner, an adjunct assistant professor of writing at the University of Southern California, conducted by Scott Harris. Steve Posner talks about his recent San Francisco Chronicle commentary, “How Trump Can Keep the House Without Winning the Midterms,” describing a possible anti-democratic scheme where Trump’s election deniers in GOP-led states slow walk recounts and stall cert...

Interview with Michael Albert, co-founder of South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute and host of the podcast Revolution Z, conducted by Scott Harris. Michael Albert assesses Trump’s murderous war on Iran, fascist repression at home and a growing pro-democracy resistance movement—while envisioning a transformative “long march” progressive agenda that discards major elements of the decayi...

Interview with Julie Hollar, senior analyst with the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), conducted by Scott Harris. Julie Hollar discusses her recent commentary, “Who Will SAVE America From Misleading Coverage of Voter Suppression?” and the importance of calling out the disinformation in Trump and GOP talking points regarding their false claim that millions of non-citizens are voting...

Interview with Brandon Carr, Studies Associate with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and Kevan Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California,   Los Angeles, conducted by Scott Harris. Carr and Professor Harris discuss their views on the five-week U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran that many call a strategic disaster, the future of negotiations to...

April's Organic Farm Stand line-up:    Diane's Hot Topics    Small Farms Report with Steve Munno    Honey Bee Update with Vincent Kaye    Legislative Update with Kim Stoner, Director of Advocacy for CT NOFA Hosted by Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella

Interview with Ann Froines, an activist with the group Back from The Brink, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Ann Froines, an activist with the group Back from The Brink, which works to reduce the danger of nuclear war. Here she discusses the threat of nuclear catastrophe and provides information on how individuals can take action.

Interview with Daniella Hobbs, a member of the Hartford Jewish Organizing Collective, conducted by Scott Harris. Daniella Hobbs, a member of the Hartford Jewish Organizing Collective, talks about her group organizing a Passover seder on Tuesday, April 7 outside the ICE regional field office in Hartford, Connecticut “to demand ICE out of Connecticut.” The seder will include music and ritual element...

Interview with Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, conducted by Scott Harris. Jeff Hauser discusses the multiple and unprecedented instances of Trump administration corruption that the Revolving Door Project has been investigating during the president’s second term. He addresses the need for accountability and what government reforms will be necessary to prevent such bla...

Interview with David Daley, senior fellow in communications at Fair Vote and author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections, conducted by Scott Harris. David Daley discusses the ongoing efforts by Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to implement voter suppression laws and policies, including Senate debate on the “Save America Act,” and the presid...

Interview with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles Goodman professor of Middle East History and director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, conducted by Scott Harris. Professor Sohrabi discusses the impact of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and average Iranian people not generally discussed in U.S. media, as explored in her blog, “These Are the True Things,” which...

Sandra Levinson, executive director of the Center For Cuban Studies (www.centerorcubanstudies.org), reports on her recent trip to Cuba, focusing on the island nation's struggle survival under the yoke of the Trump regime's total oil embargo. Interview by Richard Hill

Resistance Round Table is broadcast on WPKN the 3rd Thursday of each month where hosts Ruth Anne Baumgartner, Scott Harris, and Richard Hill engage in conversation about local and nationwide organizing for a more just and democratic America during this pivotal and dangerous moment in our nation's history. On our March 19, 2026 program we first talk about the U.S. Israeli war on Iran with Jennifer...

Interview with Xavier de Janon, an attorney representing an anti-ICE activist in the Prairieland Texas terrorism trial, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Xavier de Janon, co-founder of the People’s Law Collective, which represents political defendants across the South. De Janon, a member of the National Lawyers Guild, represents one of the defendants, Elizabet...

Interview with Tom Alter, a tenured professor of history at Texas State University, conducted by Scott Harris. Texas State University history professor Tom Alter talks about his termination from the university without due process for remarks he made at a socialist conference in his capacity as a private citizen. Alter also talks about his legal battle defending free speech and academic freedom imp...

Interview with Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center and the Immigrant Justice Fund, conducted by Scott Harris. Kica Matos discusses her critical work at National Immigration Law Center, the recent Senate confirmation of Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, what if any changes may be made in DHS/ICE policies, and her view of...

Interview with Gerry Condon, a Vietnam-era veteran and war resister, former president and current national board member of Veterans For Peace, conducted by Scott Harris. Gerry Condon assesses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from the perspective of veterans and active-duty service members, some of whom are now seeking advice on how to follow the protocol to disobey illegal orders and apply for conscie...

Interview with former U.S. Marine Capt. Matthew Hoh, associate director of the Eisenhower Media Network, conducted by Scott Harris. Former U.S. Marine Capt. Matthew Hoh assesses the current state of the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, including allegations that the U.S. lacks a coherent strategy and made inadequate preparations for this conflict — as well as prospects that the Trump regime may s...

Interview with Andy Shallal, owner of the Busboys and Poets bookstores and progressive political cultural hub in Washington, D.C., conducted by Scott Harris. Andy Shallal talks about the Trump regime’s blockade of oil to Cuba, the impact on the Cuban people and the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, which recently delivered a shipment of 6,300 pounds of critical humanitarian aid to the island nation...

Interview with Lois Parshley, climate research director with Public Citizen’s Climate Program, conducted by Scott Harris. Parshley examines the spike in energy prices and interruption in the delivery of energy supplies due to Trump’s Iran war, creating hardship for vulnerable populations. She also discusses strategies for the world escaping this cycle of endless oil wars that has caused so much vi...