There are plenty of things to look forward to when approaching old age: wisdom from life experience, frolicking grandchildren, senior discounts, and ... copious amounts of antipsychotic drugs?
Social and Criminal Justice
Nuestra Familia wins at Chicano Film Festival
Nuestra Familia, Our Family, co-produced by CIR documentaries director Oriana Zill de Granados and Monterey Herald reporter Julie Reynolds, won the best documentary award at the first Chicano Film Festival in Mexico City.
The festival showcased more than 50 contemporary and classic films about Mexican Americans in the United States and was held at the World Trade Center in Mexico City.
Carrie Ching |
The Investigative Report | November 28, 2007
AIDS in the Caribbean
The island of Hispaniola, shared by the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has the highest rates of HIV in the western hemisphere.
Open call for videos: "Eviction notice"
The documentary Banished, co-produced by CIR, explores how slavery and racism reverberated into 20th-century America with the violent removal of black families from their communities from the 1860s to the 1920s. Banished will be broadcast as part of PBS Independent Lens in February 2008.
The human cost of coal production
Around 6:30 a.m. an explosion ripped through the Sago Mine in West Virginia. Thirteen miners were trapped underground. News crews from around the country descended on West Virginia's coal country. Lawmakers in Washington demanded stricter safety regulations and enforcement. The nation held its breath.
It took nearly twelve hours before rescue crews could even enter the mine. By the time rescuers dug the men out, all but one were dead.
The true cost of cheap products
For nearly half a century the U.S. government has protected American factory workers from occupational illness and injury, but a Salt Lake Tribune investigation shows such protections seldom extend to Chinese workers who now make most U.S. goods. In a four part series, reporter Loretta Tofani reveals how Chinese workers are dying slow, difficult deaths caused by the toxic chemicals they use to make products in virtually every industry for export to the U.S. and the world. Tofani visited 25 factories in China.
Bailey Project exclusive
The Chauncey Bailey Project reports in the Oakland Tribune today:
Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV denies any role in the killing of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey and other violent crimes linked to the organization, claiming he has been set up by relatives and associates trying to seize the organization's reins.
The Chauncey Bailey Project
When Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr., editor of the Oakland Post newspaper, was gunned down August 2, apparently in retaliation for his investigative reporting, journalists throughout the region vowed to join together to continue his work.
Soldiers and suicide
On the military's pre-deployment health assessment form, there is only one question regarding mental health that a recruit is asked before deploying. Question 7 asks, "During the past year, have you sought counseling or care for your mental health?" Matt Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel of the HARTFORD COURANT spent a year investigating mental health screening, depression, and suicide in the military. Are American soldiers mentally fit to fight? What happens if the answer is no?
Taking on the church
After "Scouts’ Honor" was published in the Idaho Falls POST REGISTER, powerful sectors of the community launched a public relations campaign against the newspaper, questioning the reporting and focusing on the sexual orientation of the series reporter, Peter Zuckerman.
Zuckerman describes being publicly outed and verbally attacked in an essay for the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.
