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CounterSpin
Counterspin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. It's heard on more than 125 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. Counterspin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage.
This week on CounterSpin: The Democratic Republic of Congo is embroiled in economic crisis as well as the humanitarian disaster of violence between the government of Joseph Kabila and opposition forces. Elite US media give you a tired tale of a perennially war-torn African nation, with benevolent outsiders like the US looking to help. You’re right to suspect that reality is something different. Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of the group Friends of the Congo, will join us to talk about what’s going on.
Also on the show: A July Washington Post poll finds one out of every three DC residents say they’ve taken part in a protest against the president since his inauguration. The number includes half of the district’s white residents, half of people making more than $100,000 a year and a fifth of respondents over the age of 65. As more people go out in the street, states are rushing to criminalize that resistance. We’ll talk about the right to protest and the role of law in a time of widespread dissent with activist attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
