| UN Peace Through Music
Pleads For Funds As Bans Press Which Reported
on UNFPA Waste
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Dec 1 –
The UN bragged about a
December 1 concert called
"Peace Through Music" - but on
November 30 banned the Press
from asking questions about
it, see below.
A
full day later, still with no
response or explanation by
UNFPA, the pre-recorded
"concert" was played on
Facebook, with repeated
requests for money via
Facebook Pay. What, for
another $200,000 cocktail
party by Natalia Kanem?
Today's UN is unaccountable.
The concert is
sponsored by UNFPA, whose
Media Specialist Eddie Wright
wrote, "For journalists not
accredited to the UN press
corps, please let me know if
you would like to attend and I
will send you the login
details to the press
conference."
Inner City Press,
which covers the UN (and
UNFPA, including exclusively
reporting how its director
Natalia Kanem spent $200,000
in public funds on a garish
cocktail party,
here), wrote to Mr.
Wright. Twice. It also tweeted
at UNFPA's Dr. Nigina Muntean
of the Office of the Executive
Director, who follows Inner
City Press on Twitter.
Nothing.
And so, outright
censorship, of the type
practices for 881 days by UN
Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming.
While ultimately
attributable to UNSG Antonio
Guterres, who had Inner City
Press roughed up and banned
for asking about his failure
to disclose his links to UN
briber CEFC China Energy,
whose Patrick Ho was convicted
in the SDNY Federal court
Inner City Press now covers
daily, UNFPA is
complicit.
So too now are
those listed below - note that
even at SDNY, Inner City Press
covers music, for example here
and here.
(The New Yorker, "The
Controversial Use of Rap
Lyrics as Evidence," by Briana
Younger, "The independent
journalist Matthew Russell Lee
reported on Twitter"). Here
are those involved and
complicit:
Aloe Blacc,
Angélique Kidjo, Becky G,
Brandi Carlile, Mike McCready
of Pearl Jam, Carlos Santana,
Gabi Melim, Gary Clark Jr.,
Jack Johnson, Mavis Staples,
Peter Gabriel, Rhiannon
Giddens, Ringo Starr, Robbie
Robertson, Josh Homme, Sheila
E., Skip and Cedella Marley,
The War and Treaty, Yo-Yo Ma,
Billie Eilish, Killer Mike,
Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird,
Norman Lear and Sara
Bareilles.
Inner City Press,
which was banned from the UN
without any due process or
appeal, must be allowed back
in to such briefings, to ask
questions.
We'll have more
on this.
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