Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Vera Eidelman on Anti-Protest Laws
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Show Notes
Washington Post (10/31/21)
This week on CounterSpin, two archival interviews: As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol by a crowd intent on preventing the declaration of Joe Biden as president. We spoke with organizer and strategist Dorothee Benz the next day about the import of the events of January 6.
Transcript: ‘This Violent Piece of Insurrection Was Planned Openly on Unencrypted Channels’
ABC News (8/13/17)
Also on the show: While response to the insurrection came slowly, states have been cracking down on peaceful protests. We talked about that worrying trend with the ACLU’s Vera Eidelman around the Fourth of July.
Transcript: ‘They Are Taking Aim at Our Fundamental American Right to Protest’