Joseph Huff-Hannon

Tarnished medals

Should medals of honor given to soldiers who massacred Native American women and children over 100  years ago be rescinded? Huffington Post 2/12/2013

What's mainstream got to do with it?

Something I wrote for pride season, exploring the pros — and cons — of the LGBT rights movement going mainstream. Check it out at Alternet 6/23/2011

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

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"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.

More international LGBT campaign coverage

Wrote this piece for Alternet (1/11/2011) about an international campaign to to draw attention to the terrible phenomenon of "corrective rape" against lesbians in South Africa. This piece, also in Alternet (2/1/2011) explores the challenges that LGBT asylum seekers face in verifying their claims, with a focus on a Ugandan asylum seeker fighting for the right to stay in the UK, after being threatened directly by the country's most notoriously anti-gay politico (author of the "Kill the Gays" bill, David Bahati).

All Out in times of crisis for LGBT people

A video I helped produce for All Out a new international campaign organization for LGBT equality. Here also a dispatch I filed for Alternet from a global LGBT rights conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Sifting through the bones, searching for truth

The Ballad of Billy Lee: The Untold Story of an American 'Desaparecido' in Argentina. The Indypendent. September 29, 2010.

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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.

A Dream Act deferred

Hunger strikers' American dreams
The Guardian (UK). June 11, 2010

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.

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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.

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]