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This week on CounterSpin: At FAIR, we say you can change the channel all you want, but you can't turn on what isn't there. The loss of an information source—a particular place for debate, for conversation, on issues relevant to you—is incalculable, but very real. We talked about the loss of local journalism, and why we can still be hopeful, with Craig Aaron of the group Free Press ([link removed]) .
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Rana Plaza Collapse
Rana Plaza collapse
Also on the show: Fashion is always a huge media story, but what goes into it is not. The "fashion" industry is a prime driver of structured exploitation, whether we're talking about blocked fire exits or a piece-rate system that steals workers' wages systematically. The Garment Worker Protection Act ([link removed]) , passed in California late last year, aims to address some of those harms. In light of that undercovered victory, we're going to remind ourselves of one of the spurs for it. Barbara Briggs, then associate director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, spoke ([link removed]) with CounterSpin in 2015 about the 2013 collapse at Rana Plaza ([link removed]) , which brought murder charges against Bangladeshi factory owners and government
officials—but, we can say now, somehow didn't convince corporate media to keep a critical eye trained on the human costs of "fast fashion."
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