The Filibuster and White Supremacy
June 30, 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. The Headlines The Edge Corporate Media Ignores Filibuster’s Ties to White Supremacy (The Edge) Structural and Political Violence Are ‘All Related’ (The Edge) More from The Edge ‘Liberal’ Media […]
Mainstream Media Says America Is First
June 22, 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. The Headlines The Edge ‘Liberal’ Media Propaganda Tells the World: America Is First (The Edge) Corporate Media: California Only Gets Attention When It’s on Fire (The Edge) […]
Will Biden Be Forced to Give Up What Some Say is His Best Shot at Tackling Climate Change?
Much of the debate over President Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal has been over its $2 trillion price tag. But the most powerful tool for tackling the climate crisis in the American Jobs Plan, in the view of many environmentalists, isn’t money, but Biden’s proposal to create a national clean electricity standard. That idea—a mandate for […]
The GOP Has Declared a War on Protests
MIAMI — A black SUV, part of a Cubans for Trump caravan, rams into Jonathan Gartrelle, a Black Lives Matter activist at a small protest in downtown Miami on July 18, 2020. Video shows Gartrelle landing hard on the hood of the vehicle, then sliding off. The SUV speeds away. The man who drove into Gartrelle, an unidentified Trump supporter, is the one who’s pressing charges — against Gartrelle. The […]
Reality Winner, Whistleblower on Russian Hacking, Is Released From Prison
REALITY WINNER, the most prominent and harshly punished whistleblower of the Trump era, has been released to a halfway house after serving most of her five-year sentence for leaking a classified document on Russia’s effort to hack the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Court filings make clear that Winner had wanted to make Americans aware that the government had concluded that […]
2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, with several notable awards recognizing coverage of the pandemic and racial justice uprisings. Minneapolis’ Star Tribune won the Breaking News Reporting category for its “urgent, authoritative, and nuanced coverage” of George Floyd’s killing and its reverberations. The Marshall Project, which won an Izzy Award in 2020, was recognized alongside AL.com, […]
Stop Modernizing America’s Nukes
June 15, 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. The Headlines PCIM: The Edge Time to Stop Modernizing America’s Nukes and to Start Negotiating Peace (The Edge) The Biden American Jobs Plan Is Also a Health Plan […]
Corporate and Government Manipulation
June 8, 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 PCIM: The Edge This Summer’s Commentary from The Edge U.S. Politics Not Even COVID-19 Could Slow Down Nuclear Spending (The Intercept) Joe Biden’s Mixed Signals […]
How bankruptcy lets oil and gas companies evade cleanup rules
A battle over who is responsible for cleaning up hundreds of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is quietly playing out in a bankruptcy court in southern Texas. The contestants in this game of fossil fuel infrastructure hot potato: Fieldwood Energy, an offshore drilling company attempting to offload more than $7 billion […]
Corporations Are Trying to Co-opt Mindfulness to Avoid Meeting Workers’ Needs
It’s 6 a.m. You’re just arriving to your workplace, a 1 million-square-foot warehouse known as an Amazon fulfillment center. As a stower for Amazon, your job is to take the hundreds of items per hour that arrive at your roughly 10-foot-sized station and sort them onto shelves. As you start your shift, the loud sounds […]