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Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Vera Eidelman on Anti-Protest Laws
Washington Post (10/31/21) This week on CounterSpin, two archival interviews: As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol by a...
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‘They Are Taking Aim at Our Fundamental American Right to Protest’
The December 3, 2021, episode of CounterSpin included an archival interview with the ACLU’s Vera Eidelman about anti-protest laws. Janine Jackson originally interviewed Eidelman for the July 2, 2021,...
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ACTION ALERT: WaPo Calls Peaceful Protest Against Roe Reversal ‘Totalitarian’
The Washington Post(5/9/22) calls for “appropriate action” against peaceful protesters at anti-Roe justices’ homes—which according to the law the Post cites means up to a year in prison. With the...
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‘People Have Been Protesting Against Cop City Since We Found Out About It’ -...
Janine Jackson interviewed Community Movement Builders’ Kamau Franklin about the fight against Cop City for the March 17, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript....
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Cop City Coverage Fails to Question Narratives of Militarized Police
Protests against the construction of an 85-acre police training facility—dubbed “Cop City”—in a suburban Atlanta forest turned deadly when police shot and killed a demonstrator occupying the area. The...
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Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media - March 18 DC peace march almost...
In the early morning of March 20, 2003, US Navy bombers on aircraft carriers and Tomahawk missile-launching vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, along with Air Force B-52s in Britain...
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Cody Bloomfield on Anti-Activist Terrorism Charges
Time (5/4/23) This week on CounterSpin: Do you care about environmental degradation? Then you care about Cop City. Do you care about violent overpolicing of Black and brown communities? Then you...
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‘Charging Domestic Terrorism Is Intended to Make the Cost of Protesting Too...
Janine Jackson interviewed Defending Rights & Dissent’s Cody Bloomfield about activists being charged with terrorism for the May 19, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited...
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Bloomberg Muddies Climate Protests’ Vital Message: End Fossil Fuels
Tens of thousands of climate protesters gathered in Midtown Manhattan on September 17, kicking off Climate Week as President Joe Biden arrived in New York to speak at the United Nations General...
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NYT Ignores Dissent to Convey Image of Jewish Unanimity
The New York Times caption (10/13/23) read, “Jewish New Yorkers from across the political spectrum gathered outside the United Nations this week in the wake of the terror attacks in Israel.” A New...
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