For many people, what’s happening right now in North Dakota is a crucial story of a frontline fight of indigenous people against extractive industry—and on behalf of humanity, really, and the planet.
NYT Cites FAIR’s Criticism of NYT
In an explainer about Donald Trump hiring Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO, the New York Times references FAIR’s criticism of the Times’ handling of the distorted ACORN story, which was promoted by Andrew Breitbart.
‘If You’re So Proud of This Technology, Put It on the Label’
CounterSpin interview with Patty Lovera about GMO labeling
“If we’re going to tell people that they are voting with their dollars and they’re making decisions, you have to give them all the information. And when we came to that line, the industry wasn’t willing to do that.”
‘They Are Incentivized to Arrest People Because It Raises Money’
CounterSpin interview with Donna Murch on for-profit punishment
“Nearly everyone who’s being arrested or incarcerated is incurring criminal justice debt. And in many states you can be stripped of your right to vote until you pay off all of your criminal justice debt. So I talk about that essentially as a modern day poll tax.”
Felicia Kornbluh on the Politics of Welfare
We’re told we’re in a moment of reconsideration, perhaps, of the notion that depriving needy people of assistance would lead to their gainful employment and well-being. A true reconsideration of the 1990s welfare overhaul would require a so-far invisible recentering of the people in its crosshairs: low-income women, particularly mothers raising children on their own.