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Troubled Waters
Lake Victoria's waters have begun to fall dramatically in recent years. Climate change, hydroelectric dam projects and increasing pressure on its threatened resources have some environmentalists suggesting the lake may be destroyed within twenty years.
As featured on PBS's Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal.
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About the Common Language Project
Common Language Project Mission
The mission of the Common Language Project is to develop and implement innovative multimedia approaches to international and local journalism. We focus on positive, inclusive and humane reporting of stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media.
The Common Language Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Intro to the Common Language Project
The Common Language Project reports news from around the world about groups and individuals working outside of the mainstream, with a specific focus on stigmatized regions and peoples underrepresented in the traditional media. Our coverage is focused on issues of human rights, gender equality, social and economic justice, education, labor, health, evironmentalism and resource equality.
We believe that the best stories are told from the bottom up, not the top down, and seek out people working on the ground and those directly affected by the issues, not bureaucrats and politicians, as our primary sources.
Awards
The CLP is the proud recipient of the following awards:
- 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Award, First Place, Business Reporting: Bitter Harvest
- 2008 Edward R Murrow Award, Region 1, News Series: Life on the Duwamish
- 2006 Honorable Mention, Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism: CLPMag.org
- 2006 Independent Press Association Award, Best Feature: Dismantling a Dangerous Past
More About the CLP
As politics, economies and media globalize, so must information about grassroots approaches to social and political change. While American media is fixated on issues such as the Iraq war, terrorism, and expanding global markets when it covers foreign affairs, little attention is given to issues affecting the day to day lives of common people or their struggles against injustice and inequality. Even less is given to stories that might foster cultural awareness and international communication.
The CLP believes that stories on a human scale can reveal the most about the relevant political and social issues of our times. The digital age has created new opportunities to connect people around the globe. The CLP believes that this has opened up exciting possibilities for independent media, especially in the realm of international reporting.