Newsletter 5.29.18

Thank you all for your support!

Last week's Live Show in Brooklyn was a big success, so thanks also to all of you who came out to support the great folks at Court Watch NYC.

- Florence, Nima, and Adam 

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For the Birds: I spent two weeks trying to charge electric scooters for extra cash. What I got was a lot of headaches.-- Nathanael Buckley, Slate (5/22/18)

We live in hell.

Media Ignore Government Influence on Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence - Adam Johnson, FAIR (5/21/18)

Facebook is teaming up with NATO's favorite soft power tool to curate what is "fact" and what is "fiction".

Call Congress's “Blue Lives Matter” Bills What They Are: Another Attack on Black Lives - Natasha Lennard, The Intercept (5/19/18)

Congress––with several "progressives" backing––just passed a cruel and gratuitous bill to treat assaults on police officers as a hate crime. 

Pro-war pundits on US airwaves - The Listening Post, Al Jazeera (5/20/18)

Citation's own Nima was interviewed here, watch! 

The Myth Of The Gaza “Border” - Amjad Iraqi, +972 Magazine (5/17/18)

There is no "border" between Gaza and Israel. There's a fence closing in roughly 2 million people, living under the occupation. Why the media needs to drop this history-erasing label. 

From Pittsburgh to Flint, the Dire Consequences of Giving Private Companies Responsibility for Ailing Public Water Systems - Sharon Lerner & Leana Hosea, The Intercept (5/20/18)

Not only have many residents of Pittsburgh and Flint been subjected to lead-poisoned water, but - surprise surprise - a private water service company is playing a role in both crises.

Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery. Victoria Law, In These Times (5/29/18)

ICE is staffing out immigrant detaining to private corporations. Those under their charge are working for slave wages.

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing - Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Nation (5/17/18)

A new documentary, Stranger Fruit, puts Michael Brown's killing in its proper historical context. 

Pompeo’s Demands On Iran At Odds With Reality - Seyed Hossein Mousavian, LobeLog (5/22/18)

Mousavian debunks, point by point, the Trump administrations absurd "demands" of Iran that clearly exist simply to fail.  

Cash Incentives for Charter School Recruitment: Unethical Bribe or Shrewd Marketing Technique? - Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept (5/18/18)

To make their numbers, charter schools are increasingly bribing low income students to attend their schools. 

Nima Shirazi on the Iran deal - Radio Dispatch (5/10/18)

Earlier this month, Nima joined John Knefel on Radio Dispatch to talk about common misperceptions about Iran’s nuclear program, the Iran deal and the consequences of the Trump administration’s violation of the multilateral agreement.