Month: August 2020

From DNC Nominations to Secret Coronavirus Reports

From DNC Nominations to Secret Coronavirus Reports

August 21, 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. Election 'We Can and Will Overcome...

Bannon, Biden, the darkness, and the light

Bannon, Biden, the darkness, and the light

EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING, Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart and the Trump campaign, was drinking coffee on the deck of a $35-million yacht off the coast of Connecticut—as populist rabble-rousers are wont to do—when federal agents came on board and arrested...

Not All Criticism of Kamala Harris Is Created Equal

Not All Criticism of Kamala Harris Is Created Equal

After the twists and turns of a drawn-out process, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, the Biden campaign chose Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential running mate, which will make her the first Black woman and South Asian–American person to appear on a major political...

Kopmala’s Padlocks and the Games Politicians Play

Kopmala’s Padlocks and the Games Politicians Play

The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration. “It’s an old game in American politics: Democrats posing as populists and progressives when they are owned by the nation’s imperial...

From VP Nominee Harris to Preventing Future Pandemics

From VP Nominee Harris to Preventing Future Pandemics

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 Original Watch: Journalism Voices on...