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.
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.
A short film I worked on in Brazil is now available online:
Battle for the Xingupremiered 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.
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
About JHH
JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON is a writer and producer with a background in documentary film, book publishing and political campaigns.