PARC Media

Cynthia Peters is a writer, editor, and long-time community organizer. She has been active in the labor, anti-war, reproductive justice, and housing justice movements. Currently, she volunteers at City Life/Vida Urbana, where she helps build Tenant Associations and supports eviction defense through both direct action and legal protections. At her day job, she edits a social justice magazine written by and for adult education students called The Change Agent.

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Wendy Barranco is a community organizer and independent consultant. Wendy was born in Mexico, is of Indigenous descent, and resides in unceded Tongva land (Los Angeles) having migrated at the age of four with her mother. At 17, she was socioeconomically drafted to the Army and as a veteran of the Iraq occupation, she has worked in the anti-war/peace veteran movements for over a decade. In the last several years she has collaborated with artists for the city of LA, healthcare providers serving our migrant and refugee family at the border, a local grassroots city council campaign, and currently works and trains on infection control and medic-ing for local pandemic mutual aid. Wendy holds a Master of Arts in Urban Sustainability.

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Peter Kuznick is an expert on twentieth-century American history. He can comment on Japanese and American nuclear culture, the history of American sexuality, U.S. cultural history, the 1930s, the 1960s, Vietnam, Cold War and nuclear history, and American radicalism. Kuznick is director of AU’s Nuclear Studies Institute. A proponent of nuclear disarmament, Kuznick is a critic of the U.S. decision to use atomic bombs in World War II, speaking frequently on the topic. He co-founded the Nuclear Education Project along with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and professors Mark Selden (Cornell University) and John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Kuznick was an active participant in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. He also is an expert on film and history and teaches a popular course that uses Oliver Stone’s films to examine recent American history. The Untold History of the United States, a 10-part documentary film series on Showtime that Kuznick coauthored with Oliver Stone. Kuznick and Stone's coauthored book, The Untold History of the United States, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2012. 

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Jonathan Wilson is a Gary, Indiana, native who was one of the founding members of Black Lives Matter NWI - Gary. Currently, he is a member of the Chicago Teachers Union. Jonathan has worked with organizations around the world, including on the Ivory Coast of Africa and in Nicaragua. Jonathan and Vince traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, back in 2014, during the initial weeks of the rebellion. 

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Jessica Garraway has worked as a substitute teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota for three years. She has been organizing and writing on matters such as wealth disparity, racism, LGBT liberation, women’s liberation, and environmental issues for over 10 years. In recent years her work has been predominantly focused on environmental-climate justice. She was active in the fight to stop the building of what would have been the first Tar Sands mine in the US, the Keystone, and the Dakota Access pipelines. Jessica was a founding member of the Mississippi Stand mobile caravan that cost the company Energy Transfer millions of dollars through a number of lockdowns to equipment and blockades. Her current work is focused on stopping the Line 3 pipeline through Minnesota and pushing for a green transition.

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...  #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Jim Harper is a Northwest Indiana native. He was born and raised in Valparaiso Jim went on to receive his law degree, with high honors, from Georgetown University. Upon graduating, he completed a federal judicial clerkship in Indianapolis and served as a public defender in New Orleans. Jim co-founded a national non-profit law firm that has represented hundreds of veterans seeking disability benefits for injuries they sustained during their service. Now, Jim is running for Indiana’s open 1st Congressional District in order to provide a new generation of leadership for our region. Jim is committed to fighting for bold, progressive action to create good-paying union jobs, ensure affordable healthcare for every American, and combat climate change. Jim believes deeply in progressive priorities like Medicare for All, criminal justice reform, and a fairer tax structure.

 

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...  #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

On the very first episode of PARC Media, Vince speaks with Matthew Hoh. Matthew Hoh has nearly twelve years experience with America’s wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of Defense and State Department. He has been a Senior Fellow with the Center For International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Accuracy, an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee to Investigate Torture, Veterans For Peace, and World Beyond War, and is an Associate Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA 

Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele 

Follow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/

Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?hl=en

Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.

Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?...  

#PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.