About Politics, Re-Spun
What is Politics, Re-Spun?
Journalistic objectivity is a myth. “Fair and Balanced” is a lie. The “No Spin Zone” is the All Spin Zone.
Corporate-concentrated media is bad for democracy and good for keeping people afraid, disempowered, immobilized, isolated and consumers rather than citizens.
So it is important to de-spin the political and re-spin it for social, economic and political justice.
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Stephen Elliott-Buckley is a husband, father, former suburban Vancouver high school English and Social Studies teacher who changed careers because Gordon Campbell has been working hard to ruin public education. I have various English and Political Science degrees and I’ve been writing political, social and economic editorials regularly since April 2004. Stephen is in Twitter, Miro and iTunes, and the email thing, but no longer in Facebook.
T. A. Everitt is a freelance writer and comedienne, who currently lives in a hellish limbo with one foot in Chilliwack and the other in Winnipeg. When not tipping cows or inciting corn fights, she spends much of her time herding her two young children and traveling gypsy husband. Originally from Kitimat B.C., Everitt has lived and worked in Richmond, Vancouver and Toronto, as well as several small isolated native communities in far north of Ontario and Manitoba. After pursuing a confusing cocktail of educational pursuits in Psychiatric Nursing, Computer Programming & Systems analysis and Economics, Everitt still doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. One day, however, she hopes to nuzzle Steven Harper’s sweater vest in person.
Jasmin Mujanovic is a PhD candidate in Political Science from York University in Toronto, Canada. Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, he has additionally resided in Croatia, Slovenia, Germany and now, of course, Canada. He is a proud Wobbly, anarchist, activist, raconteur and accordion player-cum-enthusiast. He has been published in the New Left Project, the Industrial Worker, the Victoria Street Newz, The/La Source, as well as numerous smaller publications for both political commentary and recreational poetry. He is deathly afraid of moths.
Peter G. Prontzos immigrated to Canada as a Vietnam War resister. In addition to working for peace (he was a member of Vancouver’s “Peace and Justice Committee”), his priorities are the environmental and social justice. He ran twice for the NDP. Prontzos has written for The Globe & Mail, the Georgia Straight, and the Vancouver Sun, among others, and is working on a book about the human condition. He teaches political science at Langara College.
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