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Village Voice Story Leads to Indictment of City Officialnew
A Village Voice records request and a series of articles last year have led to the indictment of Russell Harding, former president of the New York Housing Development Corporation. "Saying that the Voice's
records request had spurred their inquiry, federal and
city law enforcement officials described a laundry list
of unchecked and high-powered abuses," the Voice's Tom Robbins writes.
Village Voice |
03-18-2003 5:03 pm |
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Polygamy in Arizonanew
Reports now suggest
that the kidnapping
of Utah's Elizabeth
Smart was prompted
in part by the
polygamist views of
her captors. And as
Phoenix New Times
staff writer John
Dougherty reports
in the first
installment of a special investigative series,
polygamy is alive and well along the Arizona-Utah
border. In fact, a five-month investigation by
Dougherty reveals that the state of Arizona has sat
idly by for decades as young girls--some even
younger than the 14-year-old Smart--have been
forced into illegal polygamous marriages.
Imagining Satannew
In 1988, the No. 3 law enforcement officer in Thurston County, Wash., was accused by his own children of sexual assault and Satanic ritual abuse. Paul Ingram, "hypnotized and brainwashed," began to confess to the crimes in the following months. He "remembered" belonging to a cult of judges, doctors and lawyers who sexually abused children and sacrificed more than 25 babies. Ingram eventually pleaded guilty to six counts of third-degree rape and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. There was never any physical evidence of such crimes, and the case was debunked by psychologists, forensic anthropologists and investigative reporters. Tom Grant looks into the twisted tale and concludes the case was a witch hunt from the beginning. Ingram, who will soon be released from prison after serving his sentence, is even now labeled a sex offender -- highly likely to re-offend.
An American in Baghdadnew
He won the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 23 American soldiers in Vietnam. Now, Northern California peace activist Charlie Liteky thinks it's likely that U.S. bombs will fall on Iraq, and when they do, he'll be there to help the Iraqi people. Sacramento News & Review's Melinda Welsh talks to Liteky, who has journeyed from priest to war hero to human rights activist, and his companions from Voices in the Wilderness.
Boulder Weekly Editor's Flip Sidenew
Pam
White creates a world in which
romance novels and feminism
co-exist, Westword's Michael
Roberts writes. White writes steamy
romantic fiction as Pamela Clare. On the
other hand, "White is an area journalist
known for passionately
advocating on
behalf of women and members of
indigenous
communities,
and for taking contentious stances
without regard to
political
correctness," Roberts says. White finds
nothing inherently contradictory in her two
roles. She
tells Roberts her novels "are very
pro-woman. They're about a woman
discovering what she wants in her
life and fighting for it."
Westword |
03-13-2003 10:47 am |
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Dissenting Opinionsnew
MetroBEAT Editor Chris Haire hits an anti-war protest in Greenville, S.C., which is, if not the heart of Bush County, at least its gall bladder. What he finds is a protest that lacks focus and passion. Also of interest, MetroBEAT News Editor James Shannon momentarily discards his left-leaning ways and takes an objective view of the case against Iraq. "It is not a matter of technical
violations, but rather an aggressive campaign to thwart the spirit and letter of the law that provides for the inspections," Shannon writes.
Rall, Reckdahl Honorednew
Cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears in several AAN papers, and Katy Reckdahl, a frequent contributor to Gambit Weekly, are among the five winners of the 2002 James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism. The judges say that Rall's "Cartooning with a Conscience" has "increasingly grown irreverent, cutting and iconoclastic, almost at times seeming to
eschew humor in favor of mordant portraiture." Reckdahl was recognized for her work on the homeless of New Orleans. "Reckdahl's work challenges the stereotype that the homeless create their own
situation because they are criminals, substance abusers or mentally ill," the judges wrote.
James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism news release |
03-12-2003 5:01 pm |
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Chat on The Voice's Pazz and Jop Pollnew
Washington Post music critic David Segal rifs on Voice critic Robert Christgau's review of the music that tops the latest Voice critics' poll of pop music, lacerating "the dean of rock criticism's" style. "Well, party people, if this man is the dean we’re going to have to burn down the college," Segal says at the beginning of a live chat session.
washingtonpost.com |
03-12-2003 2:20 pm |
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Administration Spoon-Feeding U.S. Medianew
The Bay Guardian's Camille T. Taiara looks at a few recent major Bush administration violations of civil rights -- including alleged wiretapping of recalcitrant U.N. diplomats -- that have rocked the European press and been largely ignored at home. "By and large, the media in the United States has totally failed in its obligation to do
[monitor the centers of power]. Instead of challenging officialdom, it's become a conduit, a funnel down which officialdom can
talk to us," Robert
Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent for the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, told her by phone
from Beirut.
2002 Aronson Awards Honor Two AAN Contributors
The James Aronson Award for Social Justice news release |
03-12-2003 4:46 pm |
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