[narconews] Narco News Brings You the "Stories that Elude Bigger News Organizations with Shorter Attention Spans"
 
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:15:15 -0500 (CDT)

October 16, 2007
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Dear Colleagues,

The media in the U.S. never saw the fall of the Soviet Empire coming
because they didn't pay attention to the steady rise of dissident
movements behind the "Iron Curtain."

And they may be missing a story just as big as people throughout
Latin America are standing up to the U.S. and beginning to take
control of their own lives and their own destinies -- and their
countries' vast resources.

That's why Narco News is so important.

Narco News reporters bypass the official sources and spend time
building relationships with campesinos, community organizers, trade
unionists, and whistle-blowers.  They go into the barrios and the
countryside to find stories that elude bigger news organizations with
shorter attention spans -- and as a result they are often the first
on the ground when big stories break:

-- Al Giordano has covered the Zapatista movement for over a decade,
keeping news of the movement flowing steadily as others have come and
gone.  (And still finding time to cover politics from Bogota to
Washington.)

-- Narco News broke the media blackout when the people of Venezuela
rose up to thwart the U.S.-backed coup.

-- Narco News covered the water war, the coca war, and the gas war in
Bolivia long before most people in the U.S. had even heard of Evo
Morales.

-- Bill Conroy spent two years digging into the U.S. governent's
complicity in murders in Ciudad Juarez before other publications
picked up the story (often using his work without giving him credit.)

-- Nancy Davies and Bill Salzman were covering the resistance
movement in Oaxaca long before Ulises Ruiz sent cops to beat the
striking teachers, and are still reporting long after the street
battles have ended and the rest of the international press have left.

-- Dan Feder and Laura Del Castillo Matamoros are reporting from
Colombia now as a rural resistance movement is challenging Latin
America's most brutal government.

None of this reporting can continue without your support.  The Fund
for Authentic Journalism, which funds Narco News depends almost
entirely on small contributions from individual donors.   And for a
limited time, the Angelica Fund is matching those contributions
dollar for dollar!

You can make your contribution today, online, at this link:

    http://www.authenticjournalism.org

Or send a contribution made out to The Fund for Authentic Journalism to this
address:

    The Fund for Authentic Journalism
    PO Box 241
    Natick, MA 01760

Please give as generously as you can to make sure the news keeps
flowing from the front-lines of the struggle for country called Amirica!

Sean Donahue
Narcosphere Co-publisher

Sean Donahue is a poet, healer, activist, and freelance journalist
wandering through New England. His Narcosphere Notebook Entries can
be found here: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/seandonahue