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Dorothee Benz on LGBTQ Rights, Joe Emersberger on Ecuador Protestsview post on FAIR.orgPlay Stop  (cc photo: Ted Eytan) This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court won’t rule until spring on the cases it recently took up, involving employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. But that doesn’t mean we have to wait until then to assess the state of fairness for LGBTQ people in US society. Just as abortion can be out of reach even with Roe v. Wade in place, the gap between what the law says a person merits, and the harms and hardships they experience, can be cavernous. It doesn’t mean ignoring the legal front, just placing it within a more complex picture. We’ll talk about that with writer and organizer Dorothee Benz. Play Stop
 (photo: Juan Diego Montenegro/AP, via Time) Also on the show: You have to hand it to Time magazine. Its explainer on the recent anti-austerity protest in Ecuador boils it down to what it forthrightly labels “The One Thing to Say About It at a Dinner Party.” The answer—that the anti-democratic infliction of suffering on the poor to benefit the wealthy, through institutions like the IMF, is still gospel, but be aware: sometimes the peons don’t go for it—is the same as found in other elite media, just in fewer words. We’ll talk about coverage of Ecuador with Joe Emersberger, writer for a number of outlets, including FAIR.org. Play Stop |