This morning, I dig out my dog tags from under a pile of photos and begin the morning with sorrow, mind full of snapshots and sound. There are many victims of war at home and abroad. OaklandSeen will mark this Memorial Day week with pieces that find meaning in the losses that touch us all.
I'm so honored to receive a Project Censored Award along with Aaron Glantz for our coverage of Winter Soldier 2008. We'll be in the annual publication and may have some local speaking events in the Fall. Here's part of the letter they sent: Your hosting of the live broadcast “Winter Soldier 2008: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations” on War Comes Home, by KPFA, March 14-16, 2008, has been selected as a finalist for the Project Censored "Most Censored" News Stories of 2007-08 Awards. Hundreds of news stories were nominated this year and your story has been ranked in the top
You won't hear much directly from soldiers on the nightly news, mostly because their raw and plantative statements reveal much about the Iraq War that isn't known to the American people, in whose name this war continues. There isn't much spin to the words of veterans, as you'll likely see in next week's Winter Soldier hearings, broadcast live on KPFA and other Pacifica stations. I'm co-hosting this coverage and I hope you will take this unique opportunity to hear about the war like you've never imagined it. When Winter Soldier of 1971 exposed war crimes in Vietnam, there was a heightened public outcry to