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A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media - www.freelancejournalistsunion.org. Part of the IWW (https://iww.org). For assistance, please email freelancejournalists@iww.org
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
We ask our members, fellow printing and publishing workers, and readers everywhere to use WAWOG’s contact lists and templates to demand that the Israeli genocide in Gaza is covered accurately, prominently and with the urgency and gravity it deserves.
The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union fully endorses WAWOG’s call to hold Western news media accountable.
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In response, WAWOG urges the public to “flood the newsrooms,” encouraging readers everywhere to email editors at leading news outlets and demand truthful, comprehensive coverage of Israel’s continuing war crimes in Gaza.
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Meanwhile, Israel’s stranglehold on Western news media has been deafening. As Writers Against the War On Gaza has repeatedly noted, the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza should be front-page news—yet it is often conspicuously absent from Western media.
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or more than 20,000 children in less than two years. By the end of the month, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported over 66,000 people killed and more than 168,500 injured, the vast majority women and children.
In Support of Writers Against the War On Gaza's Call for Comprehensive Coverage of the Israeli Genocide
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In September 2025, Save the Children estimated that Israeli forces had been killing more than one Palestinian child per hour since the start of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip—
Gaza-based journalist Addulruhman Ismail has started a crowdfunding campaign
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Fellow workers, we are quoted in this article about GFM blocking funds to Palestinians.
please take time to read.
I could go on forever about this, but I’ll just say—a healthy democracy functions best when its people are informed, and it’s extremely important that journalism remains an independent & robust enterprise. Many issues with the industry, but its current dismantling is a net negative for any community
I’m proud to be a journalist, even as the industry in the US is cratering and being stripped for parts and reporters here and all over the world are risking life and livelihood to tell important stories. Especially proud to be amongst a group of truly talented, endlessly empathetic, intelligent ppl
It’s World Press Freedom Day, and I want to step up on my little soapbox and remember those of us who didn’t make it last year—in Gaza, especially, but all around the world; & those of us who are doxxed/threatened/intimidated/arrested/killed for doing vitally important work, and keep doing it anyway
Fellow Workers, Please consider signing this petition to release Mahmoud Khalil.
actionnetwork.org/forms/urgent...
attend the Zoom hearing on March 5 to show solidarity with incarcerated persons in their struggle against their captors. We intend to flood the virtual courtroom with supporters. Join FW Lindell at 3:30pm CST here:
zoom.us/join
Meeting ID: 684 919 9324
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pursuant to current Open Records law in the state. It could have a wide-ranging impact on the ability of incarcerated persons to obtain footage from guards’ bodycams, allowing for more transparency in our carceral system.
Supporters of prisoners’ rights are encouraged to
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He was initially denied access because the Stanley Correctional Institution claimed releasing it would violate their security protocols.
This case (2024-CV-1066) will determine if the original justification was sound, or if the bodycam footage must be released
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Department of Corrections’ current ban on releasing body-worn camera footage violates the law.
The plaintiff, fellow worker Nate Lindell, was denied access to bodycam footage from a guard that he alleges abused him, and he is now suing for release of the recording.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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On March 5, at 3:30pm CST (4:30pm EST) there is a hearing in the case of Nate A Lindell XRE vs. Terri Rees et al. The case, being heard by Judge Everett Mitchell, centers around Wisconsin’s Open Records law, and will determine whether the Wisconsin
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freelancejournalists@iww.org
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈 Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse.
Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid
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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we
would’ve spent that $$:
🏈 Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
#standwithUSAID
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈 Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID
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Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈 Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid
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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:
🏈 Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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Here we see the Heritage Foundation explicitly accusing Jewish Voice for Peace and many other Jewish people of being "antisemitic."
They want Jewish people to be harassed and terrorized as "antisemites" if they don't participate in the Christian Nationalist project represented by gentile Zionism.
NEW: For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed.
unicornriot.ninja/2024/histori...
CW: extreme violence
people used to gather in huge crowds to view and participate in lynchings, often festival like fanfare. photographs were used as postcards. people were often tortured to death, body parts sold in stores as memorabilia - sometimes in stores. just so we're on the same page
1. The Israeli genocide on Gaza is also causing intense enviromental & climate damage.
2. We already have increased catastrophic storms due to climate change.
So, 3. Both are magnifying the already-devestating effects of the Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people in ways like this flooding.
