Alex Stonehill on PBS's Foreign Exchange
Alex Stonehill is presenting the CLP's Water Wars project on on PBS's Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal all this week. Click here for broadcasts in your area, or watch the video on YouTube right now. Video »
Water Wars at Lewis & Clark College
Join the CLP at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon Tuesday Nov. 25th from 7 to 9 p.m. for a presentation of Water Wars and panel discussion of water scarcity and conflict. More »
Pulitzer Gateway: Water Wars
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Contributors
Terri Bennett
Reporter
Terri is a student at Brooklyn College majoring in Political Science. In 2006, she was awarded the Leonard and Claire Tow Stipend for Undergraduate Research Abroad, and just returned from Thailand where she examined the impact of development on democratic processes as well as grassroots responses to large-scale development projects. She has served as a lead editor for Common Ground, a student-run publication of CIEE Thailand, as well as interning as an editor at Altar Magazine. At home, she is an active member of Brooklyn College Students for Global Justice and has recently become involved with an Alternative Education Working group within ENGAGE, to create popular education initiatives for young people in the US. Terri reported Digging for Potash, Mining Companies Encounter an Iron Will for the CLP.
Brendan Buzzard
Reporter
I am dedicated to voices in hidden shadows. Over the last few years I have been travelling widely in Southern and East Africa writing, volunteering, and exploring. With a university focus in environmental studies and journalism, I have been trying to merge the two areas. Some of the things I have been involved with are freelance projects related to land, conflict, and equality. In 2005 I worked with a group of young people living on the streets in Zimbabwe to publish a book about their experiences.
Su Fang
Reporter
Su is from Zhejiang Province, China. She holds a BA of Chinese literature and language and is currently a journalism graduate student at the University of British Columbia. She started to work with journalists as an interpreter in 2005, and then decided to pursue her goal of becoming a journalist as well. Her focuses are human rights and environmental issues in China and other southeast Asian countries. She loves traveling and she participates actively in travelers network www.couchsurfing.com. Link to her personal blog here: suinvan.blogspot.com. Su reported The Hotel Between Heaven and Hell for the CLP.
David Owen Ferris
Reporter
David is a Political Economy of Inequality Major at Knox College, where he works to bring Fair Trade products to campus, is a member of all of the politically correct liberal activist clubs, and is a principal organizer, scavenger, and volunteer for the Knox Free Store. He lived in the mountains of Appalachia for two consecutive summers where he helped run county-wide sustainable emergency home repair centers, fell in love with home construction, the mountains, and homemade grain alcohol. He just spent four months studying progressive people's movements challenging undemocratic development projects in Thailand's Isaan region. He is involved with the Alternative Education Working Group within ENGAGE and the up-and-coming ENGAGE Mining and Land Rights Contingent. If you're in the Midwest and you're interested in alternative education or mining, contact him at doferris@gmail.com. David reported Digging for Potash, Mining Companies Encounter an Iron Will for the CLP.
Virginia Leavell
Reporter
Virginia works in Khon Kaen, Thailand with a community-based, alternative study abroad program. She's from Charlottesville, VA and graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 in Justice and Peace Studies. In school she worked on the Georgetown Living Wage Campaign, and afterwards helped found the Living Wage Action Coalition to network and help train students involved in student-worker solidarity campaigns. Virginia reported Fishermen Swim Against the Tide of Disaster Capitalism for the CLP.
D Jae Lee
Reporter
Jae is from Framingham, Massachusetts. He holds a degree in Humanities from Rollins College. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Albania. He also coordinated a youth center created by Save the Children to prevent child-trafficking in Kucova (formerly known as City of Stalin), Albania. He is a teacher in Tokyo and volunteers at the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism. Jae reported On Dangerous Ground for the CLP.
Marianna Leishman
Reporter
Marianna has traveled independently and solo around Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. In her 5th year of Arts/Law at The University of Sydney in Australia, she is specializing in human rights, gender and criminology. Marianna has worked at an Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre on domestic violence & sexual assault cases, has developed a sponsorship project for widows and orphans in Afghanistan, initiated a women's journal for the Sydney University Law Society, in addition to starting an Amnesty International Australia humanitarian writing competition, Freedom Writers. Marianna currently works as a paralegal at an international law firm, volunteers drafting applications for refugees, and is undertaking an internship with UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She reported Down Under the Veil for the CLP.
Ryan Libre
Photographer
Having spent almost 8 years in and out of university, Ryan finally got a degree in Peace Studies. He has spent 5 of the last 6 years in Asia mostly doing photography and volenteering. His 2 most recent projects are Cambodia's Lost Coast and Daisetsuzan National Park. You can see more of Ryan's photos at www.idioimagers.org. Ryan took photographs for Mr. Seng's Homecoming for the CLP.
Kira Neel
Reporter
Kira is a nomadic performer with a nascent and dedicated interest in radio. Her work centers on the importance of communication, autonomous decision making and the disruption of borders, whether facilitating bilingual street theatre, collecting stories, or translating in health clinics. She holds a degree in Latin American studies from Brown University and is currently living in New York City. Listen to Kira's stories here: Recycling in Mali and Unsafe Crossings.
Tim Patterson
Reporter
After earning his degree in International Relations from Williams College in 2004, Tim spent two years as the official resident foreigner of the smallest city in all of Japan. Tim eventually plans to settle down in his hometown of Craftsbury, Vermont but these days he keeps no permanent physical address, preferring the open horizon to office walls. Track Tim down at his website, www.rucksackwanderer.com for stories and travel guides from frontier destinations like Hokkaido, Bhutan and the lost coast of Cambodia. Tim reported Mr. Seng's Homecoming for the CLP.