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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: Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Rather than taking from the election that Democrats have to better intersect defense of the human rights of people of color, women, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other marginalized groups with a clear progressive economic vision, some in the so-called liberal media now tell us that the lesson is that we all should, for goodness sake, stop talking about Muslims and queer people and women and the black and brown.
That’s not, naturally, how social justice advocates are responding. They’re getting together to share strategies for protecting vulnerable communities and resisting the predations on our civil rights. One such gathering of activists and academics was a recent webinar hosted by the African American Policy Forum. It featured a range of voices. I’ll bring just two: Sumi Cho, professor at DePaul University School of Law, and Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
