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About Janine Jackson

Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘s Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research.

‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 24, 2023 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
‘Every issue is a disability issue’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 23, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
‘A crucial part of colonization is taking our children’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 13, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act.
‘Student debt hurts the economy and cancellation will improve lives’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 10, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Braxton Brewington on student loan debt.
‘Mega-retailers are using inflation as a cover to raise prices and turn record profits’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 14, 2022 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rakeen Mabud on supply chain breakdown.
‘Moderna is trying to turn this people’s vaccine into a rich people’s vaccine’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Peter Maybarduk on NIH/Moderna patent
‘Every turn in this case has been another brick wall, and behind it is Chevron’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 28, 2021 by Interviewing Paul Paz y Miño (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron vs. Steven Donziger.
Where are the threads dropped with the criminal investigation of the Sackler family?’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 10, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Rick Claypool on OxyContin immunity.
Only those taking action against climate violence are labeled ‘terrorist’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 27, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

Floods, fires, ice caps melting, hurricanes—all attest to the violence of human-caused climate disruption.
‘That’s lethal, communities completely exposed to this kind of heat’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 9, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Vivek Shandas on climate impacts
Tulsa: ‘A cover-up happens because the powers that be are implicated’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 9, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Joseph Torres on media and the Tulsa massacre.
‘The Modis, the Trumps, the Bolsonaros come out of the wreckage of neoliberal policy’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Vijay Prashad and India, Covid and Modi.
‘Laws targeted at trans youth are stigmatizing, are harmful’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Christy Mallory on anti–trans youth bills.
‘The U.S. has been obstructionist in chief in Global climate talks’

Originally published: FAIR on February 10, 2021 (more by FAIR) |

CounterSpin interview with Basav Sen on rejoining the Paris accords.
‘We need to talk about abortion as necessary healthcare and a social good’

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 5, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) |

CounterSpin interview with Kimberly Inez McGuire on abortion realities.
‘Trump’s troops are breaking the law and creating chaos’

Originally published: FAIR on July 30, 2020 (more by FAIR) |

Janine Jackson interviewed legal scholar Marjorie Cohn about secret police in Portland for the July 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
‘The gig economy is really just pushing people into precarious work’

Originally published: FAIR on April 9, 2020 (more by FAIR) |

CounterSpin interview with Bama Athreya on the gig economy and Covid-19