Revolution #94, July 1, 2007
Workshop at United States Social Forum:
Revolutionary Journalism: Truth in a Time of Lies and Censorship
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An exciting workshop, “Revolutionary Journalism: Truth in a Time of Lies and Censorship,” will be presented at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta on June 28 by Revolution newspaper. This workshop will be a chance to meet, hear from, and talk with a panel of extraordinary journalists from Revolution newspaper. Find out what it is like to spend your life writing about the struggles, events, and lives of people around the world from a uniquely communist perspective and a relentless pursuit of the truth. These journalists have traveled the world to bring back stories from and voices of the oppressed people. This panel has covered many of the struggles and events that have shaped the global political map over the last two decades.
An exciting workshop, “Revolutionary Journalism: Truth in a Time of Lies and Censorship,” will be presented at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta on June 28 by Revolution newspaper. This workshop will be a chance to meet, hear from, and talk with a panel of extraordinary journalists from Revolution newspaper. Find out what it is like to spend your life writing about the struggles, events, and lives of people around the world from a uniquely communist perspective and a relentless pursuit of the truth. These journalists have traveled the world to bring back stories from and voices of the oppressed people. This panel has covered many of the struggles and events that have shaped the global political map over the last two decades.
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Li Onesto was the first foreign journalist to travel deep into the war zones in Nepal and tell the story behind the launching of the people’s war. Li spent months in the territories controlled by the Maoists, interviewing guerilla fighters and villagers living in liberated areas. Li is also a photojournalist and documented this experience in a series of extraordinarily beautiful and powerful photos, which have been exhibited to wide acclaim. She is the author of the book Dispatches from the People’s War in Nepal, and her writing has been translated into many languages around the world. Li has written extensively about post-Katrina New Orleans and produced a gripping photo essay on the destruction of the city and the abandonment of the people there by the government. Photos from that photo-essay, Still Winter in New Orleans, will be on display at the workshop. Li writes regularly on film, books, and music.
Michael Slate is the host of the popular KPFK weekly radio show “Beneath the Surface.” In 2005, he reported from the tsunami-struck coast of Sri Lanka. In the 1980s, Slate covered the uprisings in South Africa, living with revolutionary youth in the townships and squatter camps and talking with the youth whose fight and dreams set the world on fire. Slate traveled extensively through the rural areas, where he interviewed peasants and farm workers whose voices and stories are never heard. The late South African journalist Donald Woods described Slate’s series on South Africa—“War Stories”—as “a monumental feat of reportage from the world’s hottest cauldron of contention.” In 1992 Slate went to Los Angeles to cover the LA Rebellion and spent the next six months walking through the streets and projects of Watts and South Central LA engaged in intimate conversations with those who made the rebellion and those deeply impacted by it. This work was published in Revolution as a 13-part series, “Shockwaves.” In 1994 Slate spent four months hiking through the jungles and up the mountains of Chiapas to bring back the story of the Chiapas rebellion in a series titled “Campesinos with Guns.”
Luciente Zamora became inspired to work as a revolutionary journalist while in her last year of high school when she helped cover the massive high school walkouts in protest of the anti-immigrant law in California, Proposition 187. In 2002 Luciente took off to Mexico to tell the story of the people in Atenco, a small town outside Mexico City, whose struggle rocked the continent. She published a series in Revolution, “Reporter’s Notebook from Atenco,” which included the powerful portrayal of Mexican women in the struggle, “Real Women Have Machetes.” In 2003 Luciente was part of a team that traveled to Cancun to cover the protests against the WTO. And more recently, in late 2006, Luciente provided on-site coverage of the Oaxacan rebellion. Her work was published in Revolution as well as in Noticias de Oaxaca, the most widely read newspaper in Oaxaca. Her coverage included the piece “The Changing Landscape of Mixteca. ”
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