Inexcusable. Newsweek leads the pack with shallow, ill-informed Haiti journalism. Another media is possible.
Update 11/15: Thanks to everyone spreading the word. The author of the articles in question, Steve Tuttle, can be reached at steve.tuttle@newsweek.com. Also don’t miss this petition directed at the editors that you can sign…
Re: Narco News and the ICNC
This is my reply to an open letter and response concerning the 2010 School of Authentic Journalism in Mexico, which I attended as a student. It’s written in the same spirit as my open letter…
Jerry survived
Jerry called me a few days after the quake, huddled with hundreds of people in a space without food and water. I was lining up a profile story with him before the catastrophe. But he’s…
What Can Radicals Learn from the Young Lords Party, 40 Years Later?
On Sunday leading former members of the Young Lords Party, a militant Puerto Rican community organization active from 1969 to 1971, gathered at the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem to reflect on the…
Podcast: Another Fort Hood Afghanistan War Resister Sentenced and Jailed
Travis Bishop is led away from Fort Hood in shackles. Image from video shot by Bishop’s lawyer. This started out as a story for Free Speech Radio News but didn’t make it into today’s newscast….
Exclusive Podcast: Korean Metal Workers Union member speaks out
To my knowledge this is the only interview with a member of the Korean Metal Workers Union recorded in the United States. Last night I spoke by phone with Jung Sik Hwa, a 20-year member…
Podcast: S. Korea workers’ 77-day factory occupation broken by violent police assault
Image from the Hankyoreh Yesterday the 10-week-long occupation of the Ssangyong automotive plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, by striking workers was broken by a final, violent police assault. When Ssangyong went bankrupt and announced the…
Podcast (now with pictures): Austin Marchers Demand Justice for Iran
Protests coordinated by United4Iran were held in over 150 cities yesterday around the world in solidarity with the movement against the Khameini and Ahmadinejad government. Update: Thanks again to Pouya (Flickr) for sharing his photos…
Podcast with pictures: Texans march against Hutto detention center on World Refugee Day
Click the arrow button in the bottom right-hand corner below for a better view. (Sorry about the wind noise, folks!) This was my second time traveling out to Hutto. Transcript and more information below.
Eruption of mass protest in Iran a non-story for corporate media
Photo from eshare’s photostream 2000: A tight presidential election is decided by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, cutting short a ballot recount process in Florida. The winner of the popular vote and probable…
