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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...