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Media Literacy or Misdirection? How Protectionism Lets Big Tech Off the Hook
At around midnight on the evening of January 18, 2025, TikTok went dark. For 170 million Americans, the endlessly scrolling videos vanished overnight in a stunning enforcement of a new U.S. law. Just 48 hours later, and much to the surprise of users, it was reported...
Interviews
Raza Rumi and Sonali Samarasinghe on Survival and Journalism
On a recent episode of the WCIB news podcast “Asian in Ithaca: Stories of Race, Culture & Identity,” PCIM Director Raza Rumi told his story of working in, and being forced to flee, Pakistan. Sonali Samarasinghe, a journalist, human rights lawyer, and diplomat,...
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War Rape and the Question of Hamas
Israeli Zionist women have been speaking out these last few days to bring attention to the horrific rape of Jewish women, and the lack of outcry of feminists, for them, to...
“We Are Too Nice to Our Elected Officials”: Norman Solomon Delivers Second Annual Ellsberg Lecture
On November 16, the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts hosted its second annual Ellsberg Lecture. This year’s lecture, which is...
The 10 Freeway Has Been Reopened but L.A.’s Transit Problem Remains
During the early hours of November 11, a fire erupted in a storage yard underneath the I-10 freeway near downtown Los Angeles, structurally compromising a large section of...
From My Body to Yours, and Gaza to the World
A Meditation on Death, Killing, and Possibility I knew my body was healing from the surgery when I found myself ready to engage with the world and posted on Facebook: I am...
Why Republican Lawmakers Should Ban “The Federalist Papers” from America’s Classrooms
As everyone now knows, since 2021, Republican legislators in several dozen states have banned or attempted to ban consideration of so-called “divisive concepts” regarding...
On the Tragic Inevitability of Stacking Corpses
War. Genocide. Pandemics. Heat. Famine. Racism. Misogyny. Hunger. Violence. There are so many ways for mortal beings to die, especially the most vulnerable, and too often...
“Barbie”: An Anti-Racist Socialist Feminist Meditation
I started writing this the day “Barbie” was opening in the theatres. I had not seen it yet, because I am writing less about the film and more about the cultural and...
“The News as a Commodity”: Raza Rumi on Establishment Press with Mickey Huff
Unlike Corporate News, Indy Media Treats People as Citizens; “Not as Consumers, Not as Objects” The U.S. faces numerous crises that our media infrastructure is struggling to...
It All Started with Myspace: A New Framework for Regulating Digital Media Platforms
Earlier this month the Democracy & Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI) published a report that aimed to provide a new framework for regulating digital media platforms....