As Scientists Struggle with Rollbacks, Stay At Home Orders and Funding Cuts, Citizens Fill the Gap
One was a retired school teacher, another a member of the local Genealogical Society and a third an avid scuba diver. But when they and seven other California residents met over Zoom on a recent June evening, they were scientists studying air quality. These "citizen"...
After Attacking Medicare for All as ‘Unrealistic’ During Primary, Biden Says Healthcare a ‘Right for All’ Amid Pandemic
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden left some progressives perplexed Thursday when he spoke at length about healthcare during a campaign stop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania—making a number of points that would suggest he supports Medicare for All, a...
‘Unfathomable Cruelty’: Trump Files Legal Brief Aiming to Kick 20 Million Off Health Insurance in Middle of Pandemic
The Trump administration late Thursday night filed a legal brief asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, a move that would strip health insurance from more than 20 million people in the middle of a pandemic and slash taxes for...
Let’s Stop Putting the Worst Americans on a Pedestal
So many monuments to racism, slavery, and colonialism have been toppled, removed, or slated for removal in the wake of the George Floyd protests that Wikipedia’s army of volunteer editors is keeping a running tally: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a slew of other...
The Reckoning Is About More Than Police Violence
The uprisings sparked by George Floyd’s death are, ostensibly, about the war on Black lives. Protesters demand that we say the names of the deceased, that their murderers be brought to justice, that the institution of policing be re-thought, defunded, dismantled. Yet...
My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.
Last Halloween, my wife and then-6-year-old daughter were making their way home after trick-or-treating in Brooklyn. Suddenly, an unmarked NYPD car with sirens wailing began speeding against traffic up a one-way street, our neighborhood’s main thoroughfare. The...
Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat
Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters. “The purges from the rolls, closed polling places and other methods of...
Yes, Defund the Cops — and Put Them Under Community Control
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces. ‘’Street power’ will be dissipated if organizers leave the levers of power...
The Next Politics Is All About Movements—and It’s Winning
In June 2018, the results of a New York City congressional primary woke people up to the prospect that a new politics might upend the status quo within the Democratic Party and across the nation. A democratic socialist who had worked on the 2016 presidential campaign...
Student Work
Good News: Media Literacy Site by Park Grads
A new website created by recent Park School graduate Peter Champelli, and Nate Richter has been launched. Good News is a digital exploration of what the news is doing to our society and how activists are building a better future. The team had three goals for this...
Good News: How To Spot Propaganda
Recent graduates and former PCIM interns Peter Champelli and Tara Eng, with Lauryn Edmondson, created social media infographic "How to Spot Propaganda," discussing unethical tactics mainstream media use while covering the Black Lives Matter protests. Sleek visuals...
The Indy Brief
From Progressive Candidates to Citizen Science
June 26, 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 U.S. Politics Progressive Candidates Surge...
From Progressive Rulings to Trump Exposé
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. Upcoming Events Co-Creation in Documentary During Pandemic...
PCIM Exclusives
Race, Violence and Injustice: Unpacking the Ongoing Protests
The killing of George Floyd on May 25 triggered a wave of protests across the United States. Continued protests demanding dignity and safety for Black lives in the U.S. have inspired demonstrations of solidarity across the globe. Structural violence exemplified...
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...
Activist and Journalist: Are they one and the same?
By Ben Kaplan - Ithaca College (Journalism, '19) Journalism is a unique profession in that there is no set job description. We are learners and teachers at the same time. We dictate the news and we respond to it. We are tools of communication and of change. It is near...
Indy Outlets: Hard to Start Up, Harder to Keep Going
If building an independent media outlet from the ground up was easy, I’m sure many journalists would ditch the competitive world of corporate media.
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Race, Violence and Injustice: Unpacking the Ongoing Protests
The killing of George Floyd on May 25 triggered a wave of protests across the United States. Continued protests demanding dignity and safety for Black lives in the U.S. have inspired demonstrations of solidarity across the globe. Structural violence exemplified...
Salon on Co-creation in Documentary During Pandemic and Protest
Cosponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 4-5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Register for the Zoom webinar HERE:...
Online Exhibition: “Infiltrations: A Different Media Environment”
As its 23rd annual edition migrates to virtual spaces to respect public health guidelines to contain Covid-19, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) presents “Infiltrations: A Different Media Environment,” an online media exhibition.