Oppose the Government But Still Reject #USIntervention’:
#CounterSpin interview with Michelle Ellner on #Venezuela invasion
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I heard about this Fascinating article about #racism and @fcc on the #counterspin podcast. I note the inclusion of Rufus Turner, the polymath #engineer #AmateurRadio operator #hamradio #blacksinstem #blacksinscience #BlackMastodon
CounterSpin: We’ve always heard that racists hate quotas, yet Stephen Miller’s “3000 a day however which way” mandate is terrorizing immigrant communities—brown immigrant communities—around the country. The response from people of conscience can look many ways: linking arms around people in danger, absolutely; vigorously disputing misinformation about immigrants, whether hateful or patronizing, also. But another piece is gaining a deeper, broader understanding of migration. News media could help answer one implied question—“Why is anyone trying to come to the US anyway?”—by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from. We’ll talk about that largely missing piece from elite media’s immigration coverage with Michael Galant, senior research and outreach associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
"The prophet's hands tremble" --- I.A. Richards
> There’s a deep history of protest music and music as protest, and our guest is very intentionally a part of it. Tom Morello is a guitarist; part of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage and The Nightwatchman, among many other projects. His music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial, economic justice; so we talk about the work of artists in Trumpian times with Tom Morello, this week on
https://fair.org/home/tom-morello-on-music-as-protest/
#RATM #TomMorello #Counterspin
This week on #CounterSpin: Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.
https://fair.org/home/david-perry-on-maga-disability-kehsi-iman-wilson-2023-on-ada/
Corporate media are reluctant to call ethnic cleansing what it is: https://fair.org/home/we-have-a-widespread-failure-to-properly-name-this-plan-for-ethnic-cleansing/
#fair #media #corporatemedia #mainstreammedia #msm #ethniccleansing #palestine #gaza #hamasisraelwar #gazaisraelwar #counterspin #janinejackson #gregoryshupak
Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on independent media and the year ahead:
"I find a huge difference in the way in which communities of color and journalists of color and women journalists are covering solutions, and covering the problems of our world through a solutions lens, because the urgency for us is so real. We're on the front lines. It's not as much about likes and clicks and algorithms, as much as it is about actually solving the problem."
Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Arlene Martinez on #Amazon's subsidized misconduct:
"As bad as Amazon‘s record is, and it is bad, it would be worse if we treated workers with the same care and with the same concern that we do as investors who got cheated on an investment."
https://fair.org/home/regulatory-agencies-need-to-make-sure-amazon-is-broken-up-or-contained/
"What is considered as speech has really exploded when it comes to the corporate landscape: Are tax returns and contracts considered speech? What does that mean for our government's power to look into financial wrongdoing, and prevent tax fraud and prevent money laundering, if all of those things are considered as speech, and the government cannot force anybody to “say" and disclose such information?"
--#CounterSpin interview with Katherine Li of @thelever
https://fair.org/home/their-effort-to-avoid-accountability-is-very-thinly-veiled/
Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on the Rafah invasion:
"Another overreach, another violation of our constitutional rights, another mode of repression against Palestinian organizing and activism. But the fact of the matter is, this isn't going to stop us. If they think that a piece of legislation like this is going to cause us to cease our advocacy, our activities, our organizing, our shutting it down for Palestine, then they've miscalculated."
https://fair.org/home/are-you-going-to-end-the-genocide-president-biden-thats-the-central-question/
Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Joe Torres and Colette Watson on media reparations:
"There's a lack of understanding of the fact that journalism being white-dominated, and being steeped in a worldview of Black inferiority and a worldview of racial hierarchy, has very much been a part of why we find this industry to be faltering at this point."
https://fair.org/home/when-hasnt-journalism-been-in-crisis-for-black-people/
Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Suyapa Portillo Villeda on the conviction of #Honduras ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez:
"This guy went down for engaging in drug trafficking, but really he needed to be tried for crimes against humanity."
https://fair.org/home/suyapa-portillo-villeda-on-honduran-election/
Transcript of #CounterSpin's interview with Ariel Adelman on the ADA and the Supreme Court:
"Disabled people are generally living in forced poverty; they don't have the means, the time or the health, really, to bring a lawsuit to sue every single person that violates the ADA. If we were doing that, every disabled person would just constantly be in court, suing people."
FAIR's program director and #CounterSpin producer and host Janine Jackson spoke on the @ralphnaderradiohour this week about how major corporate news major outlets are opining on the crisis in #Gaza.
Joining her on the show was Dr. Tariq Haddad, Palestinian-American cardiologist and member of the Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, who recounts the tragic story of how he has lost nearly 100 family members in the current Israeli bombardment.
https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/slanted-opinions-on-gazaone-familys
Transcript of #CounterSpin's intereview with Rakeen Mabud on #greedflation:
"When prices are rising across the board, it means that companies, especially those that are in a really concentrated market, can raise their prices, precisely because they know that their competitor is going to do the exact same thing. So if you are one of three big companies, and you know that your competitors are also going to raise prices, there’s no reason for you not to raise prices."
"If these organizations that claim to worry about #antisemitism really did, then they would stop defending the Israeli government, and protecting it from being held accountable for bombing hospitals, and instead allow us all to focus on what we need to do to dismantle white supremacy, and the antisemitism that white supremacy uses."
--Sonya Meyerson-Knox on #CounterSpin
https://fair.org/home/none-of-us-are-free-unless-all-of-us-are-free-is-not-just-a-slogan/
‘You Cannot Preach on Human Rights When You Are Not Doing Enough at Home’
Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU's Jamil Dakwar about human rights and the United States for the November 10, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Janine Jackson: As US officials an
https://fair.org/home/you-cannot-preach-on-human-rights-when-you-are-not-doing-enough-at-home/
#ACLU #AmericanExceptionalism #CounterSpin #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #UNHRC
If Councils want to hold orderly meetings, maybe don't grant speaking rights to Counterspin and other loony conspiracists.
A discussion on 15 minute cities led to an attempted citizen's arrest of councillors, bizarre claims of seismic ships inducing natural disasters, allegations of weaponised street lights, threats against buses and anti-Jacinda chants.
WTAF Hamilton?
"One thing I find exciting about #Rutgers is that we all know about the incredible social inequality in the US, and how it's getting worse day by day. And the only solution I see for this is greater #labor organizing, period."
--Donna Murch on #CounterSpin
https://fair.org/home/the-thing-thats-made-the-union-strong-is-to-privilege-the-lowest-paid/
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