Lisa Barr is a freelance journalist, media educator, and organic farmer in Upstate New York. She's been shoting her documentary on fracking: MUTUAL AID: A Fracked Society with an iPhone and the help of her big dog. She contributed a chapter on libel insurance uses and misuses to the book, THE BIG CHILL: Investigative Reporting in the Current Environment. Her work appears in Counterpunch, The Humanist, and on her blog: www.hegemonicseam.blogspot.com.
To Cuba, With Baggage, and Love
The Pastors for Peace (PFP) 22nd annual Friendshipment is gathering at the U.S./Mexican border, readying to defy the ridiculous cold war relic known as the Cuba embargo. Passed in 1961, the ban on trade with Cuba was invigorated or intensified to cruel effect by everyone from Jesse Helms (R) to ...
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January 19th, 2012
It shouldn't be this hard.Patrick McElligott phoned and wrote his Senator, Tom Libous, an ardent hydrofracking proponent. He wanted a meeting. He wasn’t going to ...
July 20th, 2011
To Cuba, With Baggage, and Love
The Pastors for Peace (PFP) 22nd annual Friendshipment is gathering at the U.S./Mexican border, readying to defy the ridiculous cold war relic known as the ...
July 20th, 2011
To Cuba, With Baggage, and Love
The Pastors for Peace (PFP) 22nd annual Friendshipment is gathering at the U.S./Mexican border, readying to defy the ridiculous cold war relic known as the ...
January 19th, 2012
It shouldn't be this hard.Patrick McElligott phoned and wrote his Senator, Tom Libous, an ardent hydrofracking proponent. He wanted a meeting. He wasn’t going to ...