{"id":392581,"date":"2019-01-12T16:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/people-are-mobilizing-against-the-crackdown-on-dissent\/"},"modified":"2019-01-12T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T15:09:51","slug":"people-are-mobilizing-against-the-crackdown-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/people-are-mobilizing-against-the-crackdown-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Mobilizing Against the Crackdown on Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featured-media wp-caption\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-1200x801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Union Square on April 6, 2018, to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. An unconstitutional bill, called the\u00a0Israel Anti-Boycott Act, is being considered by Congress and would criminalize such organizing and calls for boycotts.\" itemprop=\"url\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-2400x1602.jpg 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image to4-lazy-load\" alt=\"Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Union Square on April 6, 2018, to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. An unconstitutional bill, called the\u00a0Israel Anti-Boycott Act, is being considered by Congress and would criminalize such organizing and calls for boycotts.\" itemprop=\"url\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-1200x801.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/truthout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-943205448-2400x1602.jpg 2400w\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"caption\">Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Union Square on April 6, 2018, to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. An unconstitutional bill, called the\u00a0Israel Anti-Boycott Act, is being considered by Congress and would criminalize such organizing.<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-credit\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Erik McGregor \/ Pacific Press \/ LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Janine Jackson: Welcome to CounterSpin, your weekly look behind the headlines. I\u2019m Janine Jackson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This week on CounterSpin: A new year means a chance to take a look at where we\u2019re at, and where we hope to go, including thinking about what makes our work possible: the freedom to speak our criticism of the powerful out loud, to protest, to communicate with one another about how to demand the better world we know is possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporate media serve up a lot of palaver about free speech, but when people actually act on it, media elites use their megaphones to dismiss and deride, to circumscribe conversation to make it appear that ideas that threaten their interests aren\u2019t serious ideas, and the people fighting for them are marginal or dangerous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The power is with <i>us<\/i>, and our ability to speak and to hear one another. Holding on to that ability is just another part of the work we have to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We talked about that with Chip Gibbons, policy and legislative counsel at the group called <a href=\"https:\/\/rightsanddissent.org\/\">Defending Rights &amp; Dissent<\/a>. That conversation\u2019s coming up right now on CounterSpin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As we look to the year ahead, one thing is certain: There will be cause for protest, and there will be protest \u2014 big and little, in the streets, in the courts, in schools and in workplaces. People will be looking to express their opposition, criticism and concern about the actions and the policies of the powerful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The freedom from fear required for that expression is something to be valued. It relies on work \u2014 ongoing work \u2014 defending and promoting and defining our right to dissent, making that right a living thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here to discuss what that work looks like right&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/audio\/people-are-mobilizing-against-the-crackdown-on-dissent\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered in Union Square on April 6, 2018, to show solidarity with the tens of thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. An unconstitutional bill, called the\u00a0Israel Anti-Boycott Act, is being considered by Congress and would criminalize such organizing.Erik McGregor \/ Pacific Press \/ LightRocket via Getty Images Janine Jackson: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}