Park Center for Independent Media
The Intercept The remark drifted quietly past nearly all political watchers, but inside Congress, it reverberated like a patch of rolling thunder. “I’m not worried what Wendell thinks,” said Mark Pocan, D-Wisc., the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, in...
Middle East Eye A career soldier trained in Egypt, Sudanese General Ahmed Awad ibn Auf went to the same military academy in Cairo as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. During his long military career, he served as the director of military intelligence and deputy...
The Nation Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in British custody facing a US extradition request. The question now is what the freshly unsealed...
Brandon Smith, October 2018 Independent journalist Brandon Smith gave a public lecture, " What the traditional Chicago media missed in the Laquan McDonald case." Brandon Smith spoke on the power of independent journalism in exposing police brutality and racial...
Dave Zirin, October 2017 Independent journalist Dave Zirin gave a public lecture, "The Politics of Sports and Sports Journalism," on Thursday, October 12. In an open-to-the-public lecture and a spirited Q&A supper with 50 students/faculty and a journalism...
Janine Jackson, October 2016 Janine Jackson is program director at the media watch group FAIR.org. She is producer and host of the nationally-syndicated radio show CounterSpin. In a public lecture and a Q&A supper with 40 students/faculty and various meetings with...
Jim Hightower, September 2015 The prolific author, radio commentator, humorist, & populist's talk: "Against the Current: How Indy Media & Activists Can Challenge Corporate Control" Jim Hightower, the progressive Texas populist whose newsletter Hightower...
Betty Medsger, September 2014 Betty Medgser, journalist and author, gave a lecture titled: "Before Edward Snowden: The Citizen Burglars Who Exposed FBI Spying - in 1971." In a public lecture and a more intimate, late afternoon Q&A session, author/journalist Betty...
Robert W. McChesney, October 2013 Robert W. McChesney is an expert on the political economy of communication, media policy, and 20th- and 21st-century media history. Robert W. McChesney, prolific author, media policy expert, and the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the...
Juan Gonzalez, February 2013 PCIM welcomed Juan Gonzalez to speak on the subject of his most recent book, "News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race in U.S. Media." It took eight years for producers to make the film based on Juan Gonzalez's 2001 book Harvest of...