Two Canadian colleagues and one Haitian friend are among the 31 scholarship recipients for Narco News's 2010 School of Authentic Journalism:
- Sandra Cuffe, whose great work in Honduras for The Dominion, among others, we have featured here.
- Montrealer Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, whose recent work on the Bilin Popular Committee Against the Wall, and Hong Kong's women workers, you can/should check out.
- And Jeremy Dupin, who we first met in Haiti shortly following the 2004 coup d'etat that overthrew democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Then an aspiring journalist barely out of his teens, Jeremy was forced into hiding by death squads, but has since emerged, charting himself a course as a serious, intrepid journo.
All are worthy of our support. Please consider making a donation to their scholarship[s] via the Narcosphere.
- [Update: We should disclaim, FYI, that the School of Authentic Journalism receives funding from the controversial International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Not only is the ICNC's Founding Chair, Peter Ackerman, a former Chairman of the Board of the right-wing 'democracy' promoting Freedom House (which, according to Prof. William I. Robinson in his A Faustian Bargain "specializes in the preparation and international circulation of information promoting conservative ideology and U.S. foreign policy"), he has also helped the Canadian government advance the idea of concretizing 'democracy' promotion as a foreign policy priority, while the ICNL has, with the Canadian government, the U.S. Department of State, and the National Endowment for Democracy, co-funded the 'Diplomat's Handbook For Democracy Development Support' (which we've written a little about here). None of this is to say that the Journalism school is necessarily sullied by its association with ICNL, but the funding is certainly cause for concern given the obvious shady ties that the organization has to the U.S. imperium, its brain trust, its allies, and its subversive offshoots; it's also cause for concern given the historical role that such organizations & their friends have played in dividing, 'course correcting,' co-opting, etc. social/leftist/popular democratic movements. There's been plenty of debate about this here, and here; warning, not all of it is 'civil'.]