FAIR I spent last week in the Brazilian Amazon in Porto Velho, Rondonia, on the edge of what is called the arco do incendios. The “arc of fires” is a region stretching along the yet-to-be-paved highways 319 and 230, between the towns of Humaitá and Apui in...
Month: September 2019
AFTER CLIMATE FORUM, BIDEN HEADS TO A FUNDRAISER CO-HOSTED BY A FOSSIL FUEL EXECUTIVE
The Intercept THE DAY AFTER Joe Biden participates in CNN’s climate forum in New York, the former vice president will head to a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by a founder of a fossil fuel company. Andrew Goldman, a co-founder of Western LNG, a natural gas...
How mainstream media fuels the UK’s Islamophobia crisis
The Middle East Eye Islamophobia has hit crisis levels in the United Kingdom. This is the only conclusion one can draw from a recent poll, which found that nearly two-thirds of members within the ruling political party believe Islam to be a “threat to Western...
More Palestinians Are Being Blocked from the US Since Trump Took Office
The Nation Ten days after being interrogated for hours by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials and denied entry into the United States, Ismail Ajjawi was admitted into the country Monday. The 17-year-old Palestinian, who lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon,...
Izzy Award 2019
The 11th Izzy Award honored journalists Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff and Aaron Maté and publication Earth Island Journal.
PCIM Intern: Jackie Marusiak (’21) mixes the second episode of WRFI’s Loneliness Project
In the second episode of The Loneliness Project, an audio production of WRFI and the Ithaca College Park Scholars Program, we see a breakdown of the role of social media in loneliness.
PCIM Intern: Anna Lamb (’19) edits WRFI radio story on sexual violence
WRFI’s Laura Rosbrow-Telem spoke with the organizers of the event, DJ Ben Ortiz (also known as DJ ha-MEEN) from the Ithaca DJ Festival and Naomi Barry from the Advocacy Center. In this interview, the organizers talk about "the not so obvious ways people can act as...
PCIM Intern: Abby Haley interning at the Barnes Foundation
Abby Haley ('20) worked at The Barnes Foundation, an art collection and educational institution in Philly, over the summer. While working at Barnes, she was a large part of their outreach program.
PCIM Intern: Vaughn Golden reporting in D.C. at OpenSecrets
Vaughn Golden (Economics and Journalism, '20) reported on many stories, ranging from Huawei to presidential candidate Tom Steyer during his summer internship at OpenSecrets. One of his reports, which focused on Democratic and Republican spending on parties in the D.C....
PCIM Intern: Tara Eng working on impact projects with Working Films
At the nonprofit Working Films in Wilmington, NC, Tara Eng ('20) worked on numerous impact projects. The picture above shows a new solar powered projector from an organization in South Africa called Sunshine Cinema. She used the kit to tour documentary films in the...