On September 7, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and the Park Center for Independent Media facilitated a conversation with scholars and media experts on coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in independent and mainstream media. Speakers offered...
The Park Center for Independent Media and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival invite you to a roundtable with media experts on coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war in independent and mainstream media on September 7, 2022, from 7–8:30 p.m. EDT on Zoom.
Wars are ubiquitous in the everyday lives of people who imagine themselves living in peace. Yet, it is easy not to see them — wars are made to be beautiful, especially when frequently served with breakfast.
On Friday, June 24, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. This day also marks exactly four months of fighting in Ukraine. Both are wars, entangled and unsettled. These conjunctions offer a way to fashion a mosaic of connections, rather than...
Only if the U.S. tries putting missiles or a Navy base on the island. I’ve never wanted to be a war correspondent. The closest I ever came was working as a reporter for Business Week based in Hong Kong during the mid ’90s, when I was dispatched by the magazine to...
On May 11, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera reporter who covered Palestine for two decades, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Even as evidence mounted that...
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, U.S. media echoes calls from Ukrainian officials for more weapons. The total U.S. spending on Ukraine has reached $54 billion, with largely bipartisan support on aid packages from U.S. lawmakers.
I am rethinking it all — nations, globes, gender, race. There are no effective borders left as each seeps further into the other. I have been tracking this seepage for the last four decades, but this scenario was triggered by gender imagery in the Ukraine war. Change...
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western media began upending services in Russia as the country disseminated propaganda justifying its violence. While cutting Russia off from outside avenues for media has reduced its ability to target other countries with...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes the first major land war in Europe in decades. Russia's stated aim is that Ukraine be freed from oppression and “cleansed of the Nazis.” Under this false narrative of a Ukraine run by fascists since 2014 — when its...
