| UN
Tells Inner
City Press
You're Banned
Then PGA Spox
Says There's
An Appeals
Process But
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE, Dec 2, audio
–
For
a United
Nations "Civil
Society Town
Hall" meeting
on December 2,
Inner City
Press was
invited and
had its RSVP
confirmed -
but on First
Avenue, was
told it is
"banned from
the UN."
Tweeted audio
here.
Full 7 minute
audio here.
When
it asked the
basis of the
ban, since
none had ever
been
expressed, it
was told by a
UN Security
officer at the
door of 801
First Avenue
that a
supervisor
would come and
explain. None
came, for 40
minutes and
counting.
Inner City
Press e-mailed
the
spokesperson
for the
President of
the General
Assembly Csaba
Korosi, whose
event it was,
and Melissa
Fleming of the
Department of
Global
Communications,
who sat on
stage and
heads UN Media
Accreditation.
Fleming did
not answer, as
she has not
answered a
July 2021
letter about
Press access
from the pro
bono law firm
of Quinn
Emanuel, here.
But
Paulina Kubiak
came onto
First Avenue,
to her credit,
and went into
to speak with
the UN
Security
officer. She
emerged to
say, You are
banned but
they tell me
there is an
appeals
process, you
are to write
to the
Investigations
Unit and the
Police
Chief.
Inner
City Press
expressed
skepticism,
including in
light of
Fleming's
non-answer,
but asked the
PGA's office
to follow
through.
Kubiak said
she would go
into UNHQ, to
UN Security /
DSS in the
basement, and
get Inner City
Press the
addresses to
appeal
to.
But
she later
wrote to Inner
City Press,
"Hi
Matthew,
I’ve spoken
with a number
of people on
the issue of
your access to
UNHQ, but
unfortunately,
was unable to
get any useful
information.
Best,
Paulina."
Inner
City Press
wrote back, "
Paulina
-
You told me
there is an
appeals
process, and
that you were
doing inside
to DSS in the
basement to
get me the
address that
I, or the
Quinn Emanuel
law firm,
should write
it with the
appeal. So
what is the
address?
Thanks."
But there has
been no
answer, even
as Kubiak held
a questionless
session in the
UN Press
Briefing Room.
Prior to that,
Inner City
Press asked
UNSG Antonio
Guterres'
spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Farhan Haq,
and the Indian
Mission to the
UN as UNSC
President,
"Immediately
explain both
the basis for
UN Security at
801 1st Ave on
the morning of
Dec 2 tell me
I am "banned"
from entering
the UN despite
confirmed
invitation to
UN PGA Town
Hall, and (2)
the "appeals"
process that
DSS told PGA
Spokesperson
about to,
conveyed to
me. What is
the
"Inspections
Unit" and
"Police Chief"
email address
an appellee is
to write to?
Why did USG
Fleming not
respond to the
July 2021
Quinn Emanuel
letter with
information
about this
appeals
process, if it
exists? How
many people
are on the
UN's "banned"
list? On what
bases? On
deadline." No
answer -
Watch
this site.
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