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This week on CounterSpin: As the country reels from police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and a sniper’s killing of Dallas police officers, media insist there is “nationwide soul-searching” going on on the problem of racist police brutality. Certainly there is pain and anger, but when it comes time to talk about how to change things, corporate media don’t seem to have a great deal to say. We’ll talk about overpolicing with Alex Vitale, associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of City of Disorder: How the Quality-of-Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics.
Transcript: ‘The Public Is Viewed Not as Someone to Be Helped, but as an Enemy to Be Contained’
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Also on the show: The Supreme Court deadlock on immigration policy means executive actions meant to shield from deportation some 5 million out-of-status immigrants—parents of US citizens and those who came to the US as children—will be blocked. Media coverage tended to look at the ruling in terms of the election and the “Latino vote.” What else is there to say? Cristina Jiménez is co-founder and managing director of the United We Dream Network. We’ll hear from her on that.
Transcript: ‘The Impact That It Had on People Was Not Really Covered’
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First, as usual, we’ll take a look back at recent press, including Chase’s pay raise, New York Times vs. Venezuela and the Washington Post‘s Amazon plug.
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SOURCE LINKS:
- “The Problem Is Overpolicing,” by Alex S. Vitale (Truthout, 7/9/16)
- United We Dream
BREAKING NEWS – FAIR ANALYZES NICE ATTACK!!
According to the Hamas Charter, the Jews were behind the French Revolution. So, if it weren’t for the Jews, there’d be no Bastille Day celebration.
So the Jews are responsible for the Nice attack!
Stay tuned for more analysis from FAIR, including a special piece entitled “What About Breivik?” Also look for this hard-hitting expose: “Nice, Nice, Nice…Is Beirut Chopped Liver?”
REVERSE THE CAUSE — POLICE WILL TURN ON A DIME
Police have but one priority, to protect property and those who own property. For the voting majority are the 51% most wealthy, they fund politicians who make sure that only the upper half of society owns property and the police make sure that the impoverished lower half is terrorized into fearful submission.
So, if the laboring-class lower half were to have a revolution such that all wealth was suddenly owned by the lower half, such that the 51% most wealthy were to suddenly became the 51% most impoverished, surely the police would be shooting, killing and jailing the new class of poor with the same vengeance they terrorized the old class of poor.
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Great episode! I will pass this on to several friends. Thanks FAIR for your necessary and incisive investigative journalism.