2001 NAFTALI MUNGAI — Investigated extensive environmental damage and associated issues of corruption involving titanium mining in Kenya by the Canadian-owned company Tiomin Resources Inc. His article was published in The People (Nairobi). ...
2001 BEVERLY PETERSON — Invisible Revolution, a video documentary, examined the raw struggle between young KKK supporters and their anti-racist adversaries. The documentary included an interview with Benjamin Smith conducted shortly before he went on a racist killing spree in the Midwest. The video was first shown on public television in Dayton and subsequently screened at the Sundance film festival ...
2001 WALLACE ROBERTS — Questioned whether California power-generating companies conspired to raise electricity prices by exploiting weaknesses in the state’s deregulation law. The article was published in the Sacramento Bee. Roberts was a recipient of the Fund’s annual book award for a book investigating the impact of electricity deregulation on consumers. ...
2001 GEOFFREY F.X. O’CONNELL — The Mystery of the 364th reveals the story of a ten-year investigation questioning whether a black WWII Army regiment was massacred at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi. Published in Gambit Weekly (New Orleans) April 10, 2001 www.bestofneworleans.com. A History Channel documentary on the subject, based on O’Connell’s research, will air soon. Versions of the Gambit Weekly ...
2001 EL ANDAR MAGAZINE — Silicone Shame, a series of investigative reports on the health and environmental impact that computer manufacturing has on low-income workers. ...
2001 DAN LA BOTZ — Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto published in June 2001 by South End Press: Cambridge. The book is an in-depth examination of Indonesia’s labor movement since the overthrow of the Suharto dictatorship and the continuing struggle for democratization and workers’ rights. Information is available on the publisher’s web site at www.southendpress.org. ...
2001 INGRID LOBET — Investigation of the circumstances resulting in the poisoning by carbon monoxide gas of workers at a fruit-packing plant in Washington State in 1997. Broadcast April 29, 2001 on NPR’s Latino USA program. Archived at www.lusa.org. The documentary won several awards, including the Scripps Award for best broadcast documentary. ...
2001 MARI TSIKELASHVILI — Examination of Russia’s confiscation of property and gold owned by Georgia in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the apparent collusion of Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. Published in ALIA in January 2001. ...
2001 BRIAN LIGOMEKA — Expose of corruption involving U.S. assistance to Malawi. Among officials implicated in the stories is President Bakili Muluzi, who is alleged to have had ties to a Ugandan national who was to receive a $6 million commission in the award of a U.S.-sponsored national identity card project to a Swiss holding company. Published in The Mirror ...
2001 ERIC LONGABARDI — BioWar, an investigation into secret biological/chemical testing conducted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, won top honors in the “Best of the West” Journalism Awards. The two-part investigation, broadcast by CBS Evening News in May 2000, can be seen at http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,235003-412,00.shtml. ...