#AlJazeera previously called Israeli efforts to curtail its operations an "escalation" & said in a statement in early April that it "comes as part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera".
It said that Israeli authorities have deliberately targeted & killed several of its #journalists including #SamerAbuDaqga & #HamzaAlDahdooh, both killed in #Gaza during the conflict. #Israel has said it does not target journalists.
"A 2014 study that found that Americans have no idea how bad income inequality in their country really is; participants believed it's vastly more equal than it really is. This is because western media never report on the class warfare that is being waged against the working class."
The Right's #Fascistic war on the #FourthEstate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas #Newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a dangerous precedent was set.
The Guardian gotta Guardian - ‘absolute’ facts maybe but they shy away from any serious analysis of how in many areas Scotland is doing better than the other three countries - whoops, in their words, two countries and a principality) in many areas.
Unionism with a faux-socialist coat and stinking just as badly as without the coat.
@Wen yep, me too, especially when they started deleting my posts saying Johnson was evil during COVID (I forget the exact reason but I think history proved me right not them)
Today in Labor History January 31, 1971: For the second time in six months, rioting broke out during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. Police fired into the crowd, killing one protester. The anti-war demonstrations were organized by the Chicano Moratorium. Chicanos were dying at a higher rate during the Vietnam War than white Americans. During the August 29, 1970 protests, police killed three people, including Journalist Ruben Salazar. Oscar Zeta Acosta portrayed Salazar in his 1973 novel, “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Hunter S. Thompson portrayed Acosta as his “Samoan attorney” in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
Before Israel, Al Jazeera was first attacked by free speech champion US
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government shut down Al Jazeera earlier this month [the Ramallah offices]"
“This is not the first time for Al Jazeera either, which was closed down and its offices attacked both in Iraq after the U.S. invasion and in Afghanistan. In both cases, the Bush administration...branded the Al Jazeera reporters as enemies,"
"Assange is seeking permission to appeal District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s extradition decision, which was issued in January 2021. Barristers Mark Summers KC and Edward Fitzgerald KC set out seven grounds for challenging the ruling.
Due to the limited time available, Assange’s defense lawyers focused on specific aspects of each grounds which they believed merited particular focus, with more detailed arguments provided in written submissions.
Assange’s defense argued the following:
the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty clearly prohibits extradition for political offenses
the offenses Assange is prosecuted with, namely espionage, fall into the category of “pure” or “self-evident” political offenses;
it was an “abuse of process” for the U.S. to seek the extradition of Assange for political offenses;
extraditing Assange in violation of the extradition treaty “would result in detention which is arbitrary” and in violation of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR);
extradition would represent a “flagrant denial” of his right to freedom of speech under Article 10 of the ECHR, including the possibility that he will be denied protections under the First Amendment of the US constitution
allowing Assange to be prosecuted under the U.S. Espionage Act, when no other journalist or publisher ever has been, violates his rights under Article 7 of the not to be prosecuted for something which did not constitute an offense at the time of his actions
Assange would not receive a fair trial in the U.S.
Today in Labor History January 19, 1920: Crystal Eastman, Roger Nash Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (from the IWW) and others founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Their original focus was freedom of speech, primarily anti-war speech, and supporting conscientious objectors. In 1923, they defended author Upton Sinclair after he was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an IWW rally. In 1925, they persuaded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Clarence Darrow, an ACLU member, headed Scopes' legal team. The ACLU lost the case and Scopes was fined $100. In 1926, they defended H. L. Mencken, who deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned American Mercury magazine and won their first major acquittal. However, they kicked Elizabeth Gurley Flynn off their board in 1940 because of her Communist affiliations. And they refused defend Paul Robeson and other leftists in the 1950s.
Today in Labor History November 23, 1903: Army troops were sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to put down a rebellion by striking coal miners. 600 union members were thrown into a military bullpen, and held for weeks without charges. When a lawyer arrived with a writ of habeas corpus, General Bell, who led the repression, responded "Habeas corpus, hell! We'll give 'em post mortems!” The strike was led by Big Bill Haywood and the Western Federation of Miners, which, at the time, was the most militant union in the country, calling for revolution and abolition of the wage system.
Not often that I will do a recommendation for books. Especially in todays age of audiobooks. But Project Gutenberg has are archive of audiobooks that are in the public domain. There are some real gems here if you are so inclined.
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent there. NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media", the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China & other autocratic countries
“#Florida Republicans have hit dozens of voter registration groups with thousands of dollars of fines, the latest salvo in an alarming crackdown on voting in the state led by Governor Ron DeSantis,” The Guardian reports.
On this #WorldPressFreedomDay I'd like to give a shoutout to all the news outlets and journalists who made the sensible decision to help further the fediverse and help make the internet more open and free.
"Israeli occupation soldiers arrest Al Jazeera correspondent Ismael Al Ghoul after beating him up inside the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City."
Is Ismael part of Hamas?
He's more dangerous than Hamas, he's a journalist exposing Israel's crimes
So Israel has a right to beat him and arrest him, because they don't feel safe. Makes perfect sense
St. Louis National Public Radio is claiming sovereign immunity as "an arm of the state exercising exclusively governmental functions" and argues it should be immune from the defamation lawsuit.
It's worth noting that NPR objected when X/Twitter labeled it "state-affiliated" and "government-funded" media, arguing that such labels undermined their journalistic independence.
"Israeli army arrests the entire Al Jazeera crew and destroys the broadcasting vehicles in the yard of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to local sources."
After Al Jazeera (and Al Mayadeen before them), now Israel shuts down Associated Press. Too late though ... the cat's been out of the bag for a while now!
"Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera"