Joseph Huff-Hannon

Health Care Street Heat

Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer
Huffington Post. December 11, 2009
In which activists turn it up a notch, set their sights on Senator Schumer (D-NY), one of the biggest recipients of campaign cash from the health insurance industry. [Full Text and Photos]

Nine Arrested at WellPoint Sit-In
Huffington Post. October 28, 2009
In which Health Care reform activists takes to the streets (and the floor), and start borrowing tactics from the Civil Rights movement. [Full Text and Photos]

Green Rumble on Climate Policy

Natural Resources Defense Council
Targeted by Environmental Activists
The Huffington Post. November 30, 2009.
In which the lead up to the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009 reveals serious rifts in the U.S. environmental movement. [Full Text]

What's Intersex Got to Do with It?

Don't Call Them Hermaphrodites
The Daily Beast. September 16, 2009
In which the author gets a crash course in the incredible and amazing diversity of the human experience. [Full Text]

Honduran Immigrants Sound Off

The NationJuly 29, 2009.

Yes Mennery

I've been working with The Yes Men on the theatrical roll out of their (hilarious) new award-winning film this fall, The Yes Men Fix the World. Stay tuned for more shenanigans in a city near you ..

A Magical Mystery Movie House Grows in Harlem

Maysles' Magical Mystery Movie Theater
Feature in New York Press. June 10, 2009
Behind the scenes at New York's grooviest new cinema. [Full Text]

The Other Wiretap Scandal

Colombia Calling: The Other Wiretap Scandal
The Indypendent. May 15, 2009
In which I make some calls to Bogotá (and wonder how many people are listening in). [Full Text]

Translating on GRIT TV

Although a bit out of practice, I made my best effort at translating an interview with two Argentine colleagues on Laura Flanders' show, GRIT TV. Claudia Acuña and Sergio Ciancaglini, of the Buenos Aires-based LaVaca Journalism Collective, also spoke at a big forum at Cooper Union on 5/15 called FIRE THE BOSS: The Worker Control Solution from Buenos Aires to Chicago, with Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, Armando Robles, Leah Fried and Brendan Martin.

Gowanus Super Fun Superfund

Ever since I found out the Gowanus Canal area in Brooklyn is a candidate for EPA Superfund designation, I've been a little obsessed. Here are some selects from what I hope will be a work in progress, to document this eery, polluted, crumbling but somehow incredibly beautiful place. Preview below, full size slide show here.

Livingston Award finalist

Happy days! I just found out I'm one of the finalists for the 2008 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, "the nation’s largest all-media, general reporting prizes for professionals under the age of 35." Even cooler is that this was for a story published in our scrappy NYC hometown alt-paper, The Indypendent, alongside other finalists from CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Washington Post etc. The same story won a 2008 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for "a local view of a national crisis."  

The Smell of Snake Oil

Time to Get Rich Quick (Again)
Cover story in New York Press.  April 22, 2009.
Undercover in the la la land of "no money down" and the "risk free guarantee."
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A Pier of Their Own

At a Pier to Be Redone, Gay Youth Find a Haven
The New York Times City Section, March 13, 2009.
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