Tracking the Invisible Killer
MILLIE CORDER DIDN’T know why there was so much cancer in her family. Her daughter, Cheryl, was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and 34 when the disease killed her in 2002. By that time, Millie’s husband, Chuck, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He recovered, only to develop skin cancer in 2005. […]
Infiltrating News: A Conversation with THE INTERCEPT Staffers
Register via Zoom PCIM and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) will host a roundtable discussion with Rodrigo Brandão and Sharon Lerner from investigative independent news outlet The Intercept on Wednesday, March 24, from 5:00–6:30 p.m. The conversation will center recent stories by Sharon Lerner covering carcinogen emissions unchecked by the Environmental Protection Agency. […]
Attacks on Unions and Voting Rights
March 9, 2021 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines U.S. Politics Biden Takes the First Step Toward Undoing Betsy DeVos’ Title IX Rules (Mother Jones) The Senate Just Passed Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus […]
Federal Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Climate and Environmental Legacy
As the Biden administration begins the daunting job of rebuilding U.S. climate policy, it has gotten help from an unexpected, and perhaps unlikely, source—the federal courts. In Biden’s first few weeks in office, federal judges scrapped the Trump administration’s weak power plant pollution regulation, its rule limiting science in environmental decision-making and a decision opening […]
Amazon Is Paying Consultants Nearly $10,000 a Day to Obstruct Union Drive
Martin Levitt — who renounced his 20-year career as an anti-union consultant to write a landmark memoir, Confessions of a Union Buster, in the early 1990s — famously said that union busting is a “dirty business” which is “populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and […]
6 Things You Should Know About George Floyd’s Murder Trial
The trial of former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the death of George Floyd, was set to begin on March 8. Floyd, a Black man, was killed in South Minneapolis after Chauvin kneeled on the back of his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. A video recording of Floyd’s death received international […]
Biden’s War Policy Offers Chance for Change — Or More of the Same
LESS THAN two months after taking office, most of President Joe Biden’s national security policy is under review. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reexamining worldwide troop deployments, and the administration is taking a hard look at global counterterrorism operations. Biden’s team is also reviewing the Trump administration’s peace deal with the Taliban and the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, which […]
End Trump and Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
On February 25, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing twenty-two people. The airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. bases in Iraq, which the Iraqi National Assembly passed a resolution to close more than a year ago. Western media reported the […]
‘Jim Crow in a Suit and Tie’: Georgia Senate Approves Massive Assault on Voting Rights
The Republican Party of Georgia advanced its sweeping assault on voting rights Monday by pushing through the state Senate legislation that would roll back no-excuse absentee voting and ramp up voter ID requirements, a move that drew outrage from activists who dubbed the measure “one of the worst voter suppression bills in the country.” As The […]
Georgia Republicans Want to Reshape Voting Laws, Burdening Voters Of Color
Stephanie Lopez-Burgos stood in line about 35 minutes when she went to vote early in Georgia’s Senate runoff election and felt lucky it wasn’t longer. She saw social media posts from many Hall County residents who waited more than an hour — some of whom had to leave without voting. “People are already living paycheck […]