Joseph Huff-Hannon

Bashed Twice

One-Two Punch: Man Is Beaten In Anti-Gay Hate Crime and Again by America's Sick Health-Care System.  Alternet. March 31, 2011.

Return of the Pitchforks?

"Uncut" Movement Comes to America. First Stop: Bank of America
The Guardian. February 28, 2011

Joseph Huff-Hannon

"Chamber-Gate"

How Big Business Subverts Democracy
The Guardian. February 16, 2011
A piece I wrote with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men, responding to revelations that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been exploring a "dirty tricks" campaign against its public interest and labor groups opponents.

Interview with Oscar-winning doc filmmaker Alex Gibney on 'Casino Jack' and the U.S. of Corruption

An Interview with Alex Gibney
The Progressive. August, 2010.
Excerpted on the website, full text here.

Reporting from Climate Justice Ground Zero

A week of reporting on the first People's World Conference of Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which attracted 35,000 to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.

From Buenos Aires to Cochabamba
The Guardian (UK). April 19, 2010

Changing the Climate for Justice
Color Lines magazine. April 20, 2010

Evo Morales and the Beautiful Game
The Guardian (UK). April 22, 2010

On the frontline of climate change
The Guardian (UK). April 24, 2010

And for a lighter touch, with my colleague Asli Pelit, we produced a video for the the Yes Men's web channel at babelgum. Introducing "Jeff Hobart"

Yes Men Intern at Bolivia Climate Conference! (low res) from Joseph Huff-Hannon on Vimeo.

Talking Climate, from a Southern Perspective

Bolivia Steps Up:
An Interview with Climate Negotiator Angelica Navarro
The Progressive. April 12, 2010. [Full Text]

Rumble in the jungle: Short film now online

A short film I worked on in Brazil is now available online:

Battle for the Xingu premiered at film festivals worldwide last year, now International Rivers Network is using it in their outreach and advocacy work around the impact of dams on indigenous communities, especially in the Brazilian Amazon. It was directed & produced by Iara Lee and George Gund, founders of Caipirinha Productions. After coming back from production in the Amazon, I also wrote this piece.

Health Care Street Heat

Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer
Huffington Post. December 11, 2009
In which activists turn it up a notch and 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]

Honduran Immigrants Sound Off

The NationJuly 29, 2009.

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.

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."
[Full Text]

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.
[Full Text]

Subprime Color Line

Facing Foreclosure: Brooklyn Retiree on Verge of Losing Home as Subprime Lenders Target Cash-Poor Black Seniors
The Indypendent, April 25, 2008.
This story won 2nd place in a  a citywide journalism competition, in the category of "Best Article on Immigrant, Racial or Social Justice Issues,"  awarded by the New York Community Media Alliance. It's about Simeon Ferguson, a senior citizen with many of the tell-tale symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, who is at risk of losing his home in Crown Heights Brooklyn due to an onerous and potentially criminal case of predatory lending. [Full Text]

A Twist on Customer Choice

Bringing Customer Choice to Food Pantries
Gotham Gazette, April 11, 2008.
Like a grocery story, except free! [Full Text]

The Kids Mean Business

Bloomberg Squeezes Student Funds
The Indypendent, February 24, 2008.
They didn't come bearing candygrams. [Full Text]

"A Smoke Screen"

Where Money Doesn't Talk
The New York Times City Section, February 3, 2008.
Bed-Stuy residents dish out their 2 cents on the governments tax rebate plan. [Full Text]

"Las Tomadas" in Argentina

The Pollen and the Bees
New Internationalist, June 2004.
I wrote this article after working in Buenos Aires on a doc film called The Take, with Canadian journalists Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, and a great many other incredible collaborators. It's about the rise of worker cooperatives in Argentina after the IMF's poster child went bankrupt and millions were thrown out of work. [Full Text]