Resistance Roundtable for June 14, 2025 - No Kings Day Protest Special Program

Resistance Round Table is broadcast on WPKN the 2nd Saturday of each month where we 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.

Show hosts are: Ruth Anne Baumgartner, a longtime instructor in literature and writing at Central Connecticut State University, member of the executive Committee of the CT Conference of the American Association of University Professors. Richard Hill, host of WPKN shows, First Tuesday Rainy Day Radio and Organic Farm Stand, and a rotating host of Mic Check. Richard is a musician, teacher and mentor with youth radio Connecticut. Scott Harris, producer of WPKN's weekly public affairs program Counterpoint, and executive producer of the syndicated Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine 

In this show we speak with two guests Praisely McNamara A 50501 Connecticut organizer of protests against the Trump administration's authoritarian agenda, and Nora Benavidez senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights with the media democracy group Free Press.  The conversation is about "NO KINGS DAY" protests that same day, June 14th, where more than 2,000 individual protests were organized across the nation -on a day of action rejecting the Trump regime's authoritarian agenda, violations of the basic principles of the US constitution, defiance of the rule of law and attempt to transform democracy into a corrupt oligarchy.