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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with C-Span presents\nDan Kovalik & Mickey Huff 
 \n\nCancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture \n\nIn 
 his new book, Cancel This Book, longtime activist and labor lawyer Dan 
 Kovalik argues that cancel culture is entirely mean-spirited, a danger to 
 progressive movement building, and serves only the interests of the 
 extremely powerful. Getting people fired or socially ostracizing them 
 because they ran afoul of the ever-changing language norms or made a simple 
 mistake is a strategy that hands more power to bosses and authority 
 figures. While It may make the accusers feel good, it is destructive,"  
 Kovalik insists. CANCEL THIS BOOK argues not just for an end to cancel 
 culture, but for a renewed focus on solidarity, compassion, and civility, 
 all of which are required to build the mass progressive movements that we 
 need now more than ever. Like many on the left, Kovalik has watched with 
 concern as works of classic literature have been summarily cut from 
 curricula, individuals have been traumatized and pilloried, jobs lost, 
 reputations destroyed. \n\n"The liberal proponents of cancel culture," says 
 Chris Hedges," have become the Grand Inquisitors of speech. They wallow in 
 cloying self-righteousness while at the same time they refuse, either 
 because of cowardice or ineptitude, to confront the real centers of 
 power-the array of intelligence agencies that monitor us 24 hours a day, 
 the rampant out-of-control militarism, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the 
 bankrupt corporate media outlets. Proponents of cancel culture are part of 
 the American burlesque of anti-politics masquerading as politics." \n\nDan 
 Kovalik is the author of critically acclaimed The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, 
 The Plot to Attack Iran, The Plot to Control the World, The Plot to 
 Overthrow Venezuela, and No More War.\n\nMickey Huff  is the current 
 Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom 
 Foundation.\n\nSuggested Donation $5-$20.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/28/18843489.php
SUMMARY:Dan Kovalik & Mickey Huff: Cancel This Book
LOCATION:Online webinar
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/06/28/18843489.php
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