If Councils want to hold orderly meetings, maybe don't grant speaking rights to Counterspin and other loony conspiracists.

A discussion on 15 minute cities led to an attempted citizen's arrest of councillors, bizarre claims of seismic ships inducing natural disasters, allegations of weaponised street lights, threats against buses and anti-Jacinda chants.

WTAF Hamilton?

https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/a/nz-news/350019375/i-ve-never-seen-it-to-that-extent-city-leaders-flee-conspiracy-mob

#NZPol #Counterspin #Hamilton

So the first person to be charged with a 70 year old #unused #NZ #sabotage with details still secret, who was boosted by #Counterspin Media and other groups as an innocent person who had complained about the Govt turns out to have a #cannibal brother

And yet that seems to fit the weirdness of the #radicalised parts of the #internet over the last few years

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/130396430/graham-philip-trout-fisherman-fanfiction-author-saboteur

#FairnessAndAccuracyInReporting

6 May 2022
Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News

A new website uses #criticalracetheory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it.

https://fair.org/home/chris-lehmann-on-multi-racial-democracy-mike-rispoli-on-funding-local-news/

#CounterSpin

#CounterSpin

Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the
#BuffaloMassacre & ‘Replacement Theory’

The Buffalo killer is a #whitesupremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people.

https://fair.org/home/matt-gertz-eric-k-ward-on-the-buffalo-massacre-replacement-theory/

#FairnessAndAccuracyInReporting

#CalebNichols on Defending
#PublicLibraries #US
#FairnessAndAccuracyInReporting
#books
#publicprivateisSHIT
www.truthout.org

#Libraries aren't just a meaningful reality, but a meaningful symbol of the fact that there is a thing called the public interest.

#CounterSpin: Caleb Nichols on Defending Public Libraries https://fair.org/home/caleb-nichols-on-defending-public-libraries/

Listening to @ntnsndr on #CounterSpin. Lefty nerd worlds collide!
https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-bank-bailout-nathan-schneider-on-the-next-economy/

Economics professor Richard Wolff: just as democracy was the political alternative to monarchy, worker #coop is the economic alternative to to our current monarchy-like predominant business model

#fair #CounterSpin #podcast
https://fair.org/home/richard-wolff-on-questioning-economic-fundamentals/