Park Center for Independent Media

A new documentary, "The Corporate Coup d’État,” will be shown at Cinemapolis on Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. The screening will be followed by Q&A with co-producer Jeff Cohen, founding director of the park center for independent media.

The movie examines how we “arrived at Trump." It travels to the "sacrifice zones" of Camden NJ and Youngstown OH to reveal how corporations have hijacked US democracy. The film interviews union workers in Ohio who’d voted for Obama and Bernie Sanders . . . and then flipped to Trump.

Screening of a new Brave New Films documentary “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote” followed by a Q&A session with Jim Miller (TVR '85), the Executive Director of Brave New Films.

This documentary highlights personal stories from voters across the state of Georgia and presents an alarming picture of voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election; features experts, poll watchers and everyday Georgians and exposes how the basic constitutional right to vote continues to be under siege in America. Watch the trailer here.

Shane Bauer will speak about his book “American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment” that weaves a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons dating back to the decades before the Civil War.

Bauer's work is an alarming exposé of a for-profit prison in Louisiana where he worked as a guard and witnessed the distressing conditions and how corrections overtime have turned into a profit-making enterprise.

The Park Center for Independent Media invites you to a conversation between Dr. Girish Shambu and Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann to launch her new book, “Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Politics, and Place,” that highlights documentary’s role as a practice to think through how the world is organized and to imagine ways that it might be reorganized with actions, communities, and ideas.

Award winning journalist Todd Miller will speak about his new book that traces the emergence of U.S. border regime covering thousands of miles outside of American territory. Is heightened border enforcement making the world safer or more peaceful?

The Park Center for Independent Media presents

The Crisis of the Media-Industrial Complex

Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now! will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and why it is unable to inform and educate the public.

The Park Center for Independent Media is pleased to announce that this year’s Izzy Award will be shared by a publication and three journalists: