How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers
I’ve watched so many reporters, both at ProPublica and at other outlets, do their best to debunk myths, demystify confusing trends and answer the public’s questions. It is, frankly, exhausting, especially when the same arguments keep coming up again and again. I’m...
Stories Dooming Vaccine Hopes Overlook Immunity’s Complexity in Search of Easy Clicks
“With Coronavirus Antibodies Fading Fast, Vaccine Hopes Fade, Too,” read a recent headline in the San Francisco Chronicle (7/17/20). As of July 20, it was the most popular article on the paper’s website—which isn’t surprising, given that it stokes one of many people’s...
As the Culture Wars Flare Amid the Pandemic, a Call to Speak ‘Science to Power’
More than a thousand of the nation's top scientists say it's time to speak "science to power," as Covid-19 deaths top 141,000 nationally and cases continue to rise in 43 states. The scientists are calling on policymakers to restore evidence-based...
Black and Brown Students Are Organizing to Remove Police From Their Schools
Law enforcement has had a brief yet abusive relationship with American public schools, spurring the terrorization of Black and Brown students and increased interaction with law enforcement at a young age. The rationale behind police in schools has always been for...
COMMUNITIES OF COLOR POISED TO LOSE THEIR HOMES AS EVICTION MORATORIUMS LIFT
Black and brown Americans — the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it — are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have repeatedly told everyone to hide behind,...
Trump and DeVos’s Plan to Reopen Schools Hides a Sinister Agenda
Parents of 51 million school-age children in the U.S. are facing an agonizing choice — whether to risk exposing their children to the coronavirus in public school classrooms this fall, or to sacrifice their children’s intellectual, social and emotional development by...
States Are Begging for Coronavirus Relief. Trump Sent Federal Police Instead.
Every day, reports of unmarked vans with unidentifiable law enforcement agents rounding up protesters in Portland, Oregon, are going viral. Many of those who were detained said they weren’t doing anything illegal. Last week, one man described being blindfolded, taken...
As Trump Threatens Cities, Philadelphia’s DA Prepares to Uphold the Rule of Law
President Trump is naming more and more cities to which his administration may deploy federal agents in order to stop protests against police violence and structural racism. Even as Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is now suing federal officials, alleging that...
Trump Proposes Speedier Environmental Reviews for Highways, Pipelines, Drilling and Mining
Just 110 days before he faces the nation's voters for the second time, President Donald Trump continued his three-and-a-half-year attack on the nation's environmental laws on Wednesday by seeking to reign in one of the most important—the statute that requires federal...
Student Work
Internship: Selin Tuter at The Ithaca Voice
Selin Tuter says her time at The Ithaca Voice "has truly been wonderful. In addition to improving pre-existing skills such as interviewing, I picked up new ones such as covering town halls.”
Internship: Jackie Marusiak at Heartland Film Festival
For an internship at Heartland Film Festival, Jackie Marusiak screened and reviewed film submissions to the Indy Shorts festival, helped assemble programs, and posted information about films online. Jackie also coordinated and hosted two sessions via Zoom with...
The Indy Brief
From Federal Crackdown to Understanding Coronavirus Numbers
June 19, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines PCIM Event Webinar: Journalism in Times of...
From Challenging the Electoral College to Shifting Climate Plans
June 19, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The HeadlinesPCIM Original Faisal Devji on Globalized...
PCIM Exclusives
Indy Journalists: ‘We Are Not The New York Times — We Take Sides’
Four esteemed voices in media joined PCIM on July 29 to discuss recent changes in journalism amid pandemic and protest. Moderated by PCIM Director Raza Rumi, the conversation invited valuable perspectives from each of the four panelists: The Independent’s chief U.S....
Interview: Faisal Devji on Globalized Antiracist Protests
Faisal Devji, a distinguished scholar and historian at Oxford University, joined PCIM director Raza Rumi to discuss how the global scope of the recent Black Lives Matter protests is raising possibilities for a new global politics. Devji’s historical insights place...
A Jury In Georgia Declares Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Guilty of Conspiracy at Naval Base Housing Nuclear Arsenal
By Vaughn Golden On April 4, 2018, seven activists, devout Catholic Workers, following a calling of their faith to symbolically disarm nuclear weapons, broke into the Kings Bay naval base in southern Georgia. Nearly 19 months later, they were pronounced guilty by a...
Kings Bay plowshares seven begin arguing defense in court
Inside a sterile, but lavish wood paneled courtroom in Brunswick, Ga. Monday, the Kings Bay plowshares seven, formally opened their legal argument, providing hints to what Judge Lisa Godbey Wood would allow. The government, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karl...
Featured
Indy Journalists: ‘We Are Not The New York Times — We Take Sides’
Four esteemed voices in media joined PCIM on July 29 to discuss recent changes in journalism amid pandemic and protest. Moderated by PCIM Director Raza Rumi, the conversation invited valuable perspectives from each of the four panelists: The Independent’s chief U.S....
PCIM Webinar: Journalism in Times of Pandemic & Protest
Join the Park Center for Independent Media on Wednesday, July 29 for a webinar on the media environment amid the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing protests against racial injustice. Our speakers will review the coverage of pandemic and...
Interview: Faisal Devji on Globalized Antiracist Protests
Faisal Devji, a distinguished scholar and historian at Oxford University, joined PCIM director Raza Rumi to discuss how the global scope of the recent Black Lives Matter protests is raising possibilities for a new global politics. Devji’s historical insights place...