Jan 2, 2020 | Featured, Izzy Award
With the Izzy Award set to celebrate its 12th year, award nominations are now open for work produced in the calendar year 2019. The annual honor for outstanding achievement in independent media — named after legendary journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is...
Oct 25, 2019 | Featured, Our Stories
By Vaughn Golden On April 4, 2018, seven activists, devout Catholic Workers, following a calling of their faith to symbolically disarm nuclear weapons, broke into the Kings Bay naval base in southern Georgia. Nearly 19 months later, they were pronounced guilty by a...
Oct 24, 2019 | Featured, Our Stories
Inside a sterile, but lavish wood paneled courtroom in Brunswick, Ga. Monday, the Kings Bay plowshares seven, formally opened their legal argument, providing hints to what Judge Lisa Godbey Wood would allow. The government, represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Karl...
Sep 11, 2019 | Events, Featured
Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective. Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author...
Sep 2, 2019 | Featured, Izzy Award
2019 Izzy Award: Editors of Earth Island Journal, Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff, Aaron Mate The eleventh annual Izzy Award was presented on April 15, 2019 to the editors of Earth Island Journal, Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff, and Aaron Mate. Earth Island...
Aug 16, 2019 | Events, Featured
Todd Miller, an award winning journalist will speak at Ithaca College on October 22, 2019 at 5:30 pm. The venue is Emerson Suites at Ithaca College. EMPIRE OF BORDERS “Joining meticulous documentation and vivid on-the-ground research in multiple border hot spots...
