Joseph Huff-Hannon

In Exile

Behind the Camera Lens in Honduras
GlobalPost. June 2, 2010
A profile of two Central American documentary filmmakers I met in Argentina, finishing up their feature film on the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras.

Joseph Huff-Hannon

Argentine Bicentennial

Argentina's History, Warts and All
The Guardian (UK). May 26, 2010
Some reflections and images from a massive and mind-blowing show put on by Fuerza Bruta on the streets of Buenos Aires, a retrospective of Argentine history and culture told through art, movement and dance.  [More Photos Here]

C.S.I. Buenos Aires

Forensic Science for Human Rights
The Guardian (UK). May 13, 2010

Photo provided by Luis Fondebrider at EAAF

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]

Spooks, Leaks, and Maybe a War Crime

Wikileaks in the Crosshairs
The Guardian (UK). March 31, 2010

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.

Students go Gaga

President Obama, War is Bad Romance
The Guardian (UK). March 22, 2010
In which anti-war student activists pump up the jams and decry the 'Bad Romance' they say they're stuck in with the Obama administration.  [Photos]

The Coffee Party Jumps Offline

America Wakes Up to the Coffee Party
The Guardian (UK). March 15, 2009
In which the bizarre emergence of competing beverage-based social movements in the US takes a new twist.

At the Conference of Magical Thinking

INSIDE TED: Ultra-cool conference delivers hype, delusions
Salon.com, February 18, 2010
In which my cynical side can't help but skewer the conference about "Ideas worth spreading," even as my colleague and I were invited to speak there. I'm guessing there won't be a repeat invite. [Full Text]

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]

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."