Watch the Webinar Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bqiXpColMA The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, the Park Center for Independent Media, and the Muslim Chaplaincy at Cornell will host Pakistani-American and...
Month: September 2020
The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann Patricia Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies and Co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), and Dale Hudson, Associate Professor of Screen Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi and new media...
A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
Over Labor Day weekend, the fire storms that plagued California and Colorado in August blew up into an unprecedented siege of wildfires across half a dozen western states. Fire scientists and incident commanders warn that a series of almost unheard of events over the...
Costs of War: After 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Around the World
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001. The...
Quid Pro Quo: Did Trump Help Kill Anti-Corruption Probe in Guatemala to Aid Reelection Bid?
Iván Velásquez is a Colombian prosecutor who headed the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala from 2013 to 2019, a powerful U.N.-backed commission formed to investigate corruption in the country and supported by the Obama administration. But Velásquez...
Infection and Repression
The coronavirus pandemic touches every corner of the earth. In two hundred thirteen countries, more than eight hundred thousand people have died, and there have been nearly twenty-five million cases confirmed. Everywhere, the public health crisis has brought economic...
Over a Dozen Black and Latino Men Accused a Cop of Humiliating, Invasive Strip Searches. The NYPD Kept Promoting Him.
Christopher McCormack is one of the New York Police Department’s highest-ranking officers. As an assistant chief, he helps oversee drug enforcement and organized crime investigations throughout the city. He was hand-picked for the promotion two years ago by his old...
The House Is About to Pass Marijuana Decriminalization. What Will the Senate Do?
If President Trump and Senate Republicans were willing to work with Democrats on just one issue, a bill ending federal marijuana prohibition could finally become law. That’s probably not going to happen unless Trump’s racist, scorched-earth reelection campaign...
‘Every City Council Should Follow Suit’: Portland, Oregon Becomes First US City to Ban Corporate Use of Facial Recognition Surveillance
In a historic move that privacy advocates said must be replicated nationwide, the Portland, Oregon city council on Wednesday unanimously approved a sweeping ban on the use of facial recognition surveillance by public agencies as well as private businesses "in places...
Cable news profits from its obsession with Trump. Viewers are the only victims.
IN A PREVIOUS STORY, I demonstrated that the quantity of coverage devoted by the print media to Donald Trump is without historical precedent. In 2018, “Trump” was the fourth-most-used word in the New York Times. On average, Trump was directly...