The Long-Term Dangers of Joe Biden’s Terrible Campaigning for President
In the sprawling New Yorker profile of Joe Biden that appeared earlier this month, an unnamed Barack Obama administration official dropped an assessment of the presidential campaign that will resonate with liberals everywhere: “This country needs to just chill the fuck out and have a boring President.” Indeed, four years in the Trump gyre, suspended in a state […]
09/23: Panel Discussion on the World Theatrical Premiere of the documentary “America Street”
The Park Center for Independent Media and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) present an online discussion on “America Street, a feature-length documentary by Idrissou Mora-Kpai (Ithaca College) on Wednesday, September 23, at 4 p.m. (EDT). This discussion follows the world theatrical premiere of the documentary in September at Cinemapolis via their Virtual Cinema platform. The film […]
Postal Fiasco, Private Guns, Corporate Surveillance
September 4, 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 Exclusive Indy Journalists Talked Reporting and Investigation at IC (Park Center for Independent Media) U.S. Election ‘A Fiasco Is Clearly Foreseeable’: USPS […]
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares With Authorities — In The U.S.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S executive order banning Americans from using TikTok is driven by concerns that the company might hand over user data to Chinese authorities. Recently hacked police documents reveal the nature of the company’s relationship to law enforcement — not in China but in the United States. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing, where the government censors […]
Corporations Like Amazon Hire Union-Busting Labor Spies All the Time
Yesterday, VICE reported that Amazon had posted two online job listings for intelligence analysts to monitor threats that included labor organizing. The company immediately yanked the listings, claiming they were made in error, but screenshots show Amazon explicitly looking for experts to collect “actionable intelligence” on “organized labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders” among others. Amazon’s workforce […]
Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They’re Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.
As another month of rent came due September 1, tenant organizers were greeted with a rare bit of good news. The Trump administration announced a sweeping moratorium on residential evictions through the end of the year, providing an unexpected 11th-hour reprieve to millions of renters who had run out of options. It is a stunning move from a president who began […]
Cornell University to Reopen this Fall Despite Opposition from Community
It’s been a rough few weeks for college students: Zoom crashed on what was the first day of classes for several schools, and, at best, they’re quarantining with terrible food; at worst, their universities are already closing up shop due to COVID outbreaks. Most of the eight Ivy League schools—in fact, all but one—have chosen to either go fully remote […]
The End of Oil? Pandemic Adds to Fossil Fuel Glut, But COVID-19 Relief Money Flows to Oil Industry
As the coronavirus pandemic contributes to a glut of fossil fuels, groups like Greenpeace are calling on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to ban fossil fuel interests from his campaign and administration, if he wins, even as he recently declared at a campaign stop that he “will not ban fracking.” We discuss the politics of […]
The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price
The federal government is backing out of a controversial $646.7 million deal to buy ventilators from Royal Philips N.V., acting before the company had delivered a third of the order. ProPublica’s reporting prompted a congressional investigation finding “evidence of fraud, waste and abuse” in the acquisition of the Philips ventilators. The U.S. Department of Health and […]
WATCH: Voices From the Ground: ‘The Protests Are Not All Riots’
Black people have always historically organized resistances that have turned into movements. Recently, protests have erupted all over the United States since the police killing of George Floyd. Many of the uprisings, from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, have sustained themselves for months, with millions of people in the streets calling for an end to police brutality. Portland, […]