News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
Apr 10, 2021
In this public News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines. With guest Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen.
Mar 24, 2021
In this public News Brief, we catch up with Austin activists Seneca Savoie and Chris Harris as they fight far right demagoguery, rich liberal NIMBY fence-sitting, and stigmatizing local media coverage of Travis County's unhoused population.
Mar 10, 2021
"It’s Time for a Domestic Terrorism
Law," blares a Washington Monthly headline. "Tucson Police
Helping Homeless with New Outreach Program," reports Tucson,
Arizona’s ABC affiliate KGUN9. "Programs that monitor students'
social media are seen as a means of heading off the next tragic
shooting," says an article in...
Mar 3, 2021
On
this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the
term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately
smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of
people's relationship with their government into our cultural
understanding of taxation, public spending and...
Feb 17, 2021
"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to
Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals.
Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential
workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to Amazon
Employees About the Coronavirus. Every Smart Business Leader Needs
to Read It," insists an article in...