Month: June 2020

From Progressive Candidates to Citizen Science

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...

Let’s Stop Putting the Worst Americans on a Pedestal

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 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...

Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat

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...