‘The Fight Doesn’t End Until We Stop It at the Source’
“We have to really focus on placing the blame where it squarely belongs, which is on the industry and the corporations that are making products, that they don’t give us any other choices.”
Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Update, Craig Aaron on Sinclair Takeover
Corporate media are wrong in their evident belief—if coverage is guide—that the fight over the Dakota Access pipeline is over. We have an update on a struggle that’s very much alive.
‘Any of the Journalists Present Could Have Been Arrested’
What is the state of our democracy when journalists are arrested for “obstructing government functions” and their cameras are seized “as evidence”?
‘We Should Not Be Subsidizing an Industry That Is Hurting Our Communities’
“The US government gives tens of billions of dollars a year to the fossil fuel industry by way of subsidies, tax breaks, handouts from the American people to an industry that has been in existence for over a hundred years and is doing the work to destroy our planet. “
Hiding DAPL Violence Behind ‘Nothing to See Here’ Headlines
One almost gets the sense that editors writing headlines like these have enlisted themselves on the sheriff’s team, waving spectators away with a “nothing to see here, folks.”
‘We Don’t Need to Get to Standing Rock to Be Part of the Front Line’
“It took a whole lot of fighting, it took a whole lot of people getting hurt and really living this struggle, in order for this to be seen. So we’re at a critical juncture in terms of making sure that this does not become unseen, that it does not lose the attention that it’s gained.”
Greg LeRoy on Carrier Deal, Kelly Hayes on What’s Next for #NODAPL
What if instead of getting lost in Trump’s machinations, media looked at what deals like the one that actually happened with Carrier actually wind up meaning for workers and local economies?
When Journalism Gets a Jail Threat, Most Media Respond With Silence
But most national US outlets—the ones who complain about not getting a seat on a candidate’s plane—breathed not a word on North Dakota’s assault on the press’s ability to cover a major story of the moment.
