On Sunday and Monday, protests are taking place against the policies of the IMF and World Bank. Joeseph Stiglitz who was chief economist at the World Bank from 96 til late last year and a top economic advisor to the Clinton Administration before that has a piece in the New Republic, What I learned at the Global Economic Crisis, which is critical of the IMF.C-SPAN is televising and streaming the rally starting at 11 am eastern on Sunday. The IMC is providing reports from grassroots media and there will also be streaming mobilization radio.
Salon has coverage including a good piece by Bruce Shapiro. The Nation has a special issue on the IMF and World Bank and is providing regular updates in their online beat column. Mother Jones has coverage and you can sign up for an email newsletter. Common Dreams has links to coverage and viewpoints.
Henry Allen who won the Pulitzer for criticism this week has a piece on the protests. David Plotz of Slate is providing dispatches over the weekend. Former Village Voice reporter Jason Vest is covering the protests for Speak Out.
posted by steve rhodes 4/15/2000 7:13:17 PM
The New York Post has a story, Kozmo Accused Of Avoiding Black Areas, and I'm sure there will now be more coverage since the Equal Rights Center has sued Kozmo on behalf of two residents of Washington DC who tried to order from the company's website, but were told their zipcodes were not served according to Kozmo.com hit with lawsuit in wake of MSNBC.com probe:The two plaintiffs, Winona Lake who lives in the Capital Hill neighborhood in Northeast D.C. (parts of Capital Hill are also in the Southeast quadrant) and James Warren who lives in the Southwest quadrant of the city, are both African Americans who live in majority black neighborhoods that are unserved by Kozmo. Both say they tried to place an order from Kozmo’s Web site and were told the company does not serve their ZIP code.“I believe Southwest is a great place to live, but, unfortunately, commercial development is sorely lacking. For me, Kozmo sounded like it could be a Godsend to an area like Southwest,” Warren said in a press release. “So you can imagine my outrage when I find another business that places neighborhoods like mine on the back burner. And you can appreciate my frustration when I found out this company has the resources to expand delivery service to new cities, but won’t expand delivery to my neighborhood.”
The suit, which extends to all residents of 12 city ZIP codes that Kozmo does not serve, is asking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Berenbaum said his group would continue to investigate other cities Kozmo serves to see if the trend seen in D.C. holds. “It is our hope that consumers in other cities will join to make this a nationwide class action suit,” Berenbaum said.
posted by steve rhodes 4/13/2000 4:34:59 PM
Eliot Zaret and Brock Meeks have done an investigative piece for MSNBC.com, Kozmo’s digital dividing lines. They found "that in the cities it [Kozmo] serves, the company does not offer delivery to many neighborhoods with high concentrations of black residents. The company says it only looks at Internet usage when deciding which areas to serve and says race is not a factor. But some lawyers and advocacy groups say the investigation may have exposed the first case of cyber-redlining." Donna Hoffman, an expert on ecommerce, is quoted in the piece.New City's look at the recent limited launch of kozmo in Chicago, KOZMO.POLITAN, says that it is currently available in the following north side zip codes - 60610, 60613, 60614, 60618, 60647 and 60657. It will be interesting to see if the MSNBC article will have any impact on where Kozmo delivers when it expands in Chicago (as well as in other cities).
posted by steve rhodes 4/12/2000 4:04:57 PM
The Pulitzer site seems to be back up. They have a list of the winners along links to the citations and a list of the other finalists in each category. The finalists in the public service category are worth reading. The Philadelphia Inquirer's series on how the police dealt with sexual assaults was praised for the innovative presentation on the paper's website. And the Chicago Tribune was a finalist for their series on the failure of the death penalty in Illinois. It and the release of innocent people on death row helped lead to Gov. Ryan's decision to impose a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.
posted by steve rhodes 4/10/2000 4:24:29 PM
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were just announced. I'm actually listening to coverage right now on Freedom Forum's webcast.It used to be that the only people who actually read the winners of the Pulitzers (and other jounalism awards) after they were announced were people who picked up the reprints of the stories at journalism conferences. Now people can read them online. The Pulitzer site has the winners from 1995 -1999 in their archives and the 2000 winners will be available this summer (as I write this the Pulitzer site is hosed, so the links above may not work).
Some are already available on the web. The Washington Post has a page with links to the winners of the three awards it won including Invisable Deaths: The Fatal Neglect of D.C.'s Retarded by Katherine Boos which won for public service journalism and Kosovo photos which won for feature photography . The Village Voice won for International Reporting for their series on AIDs in Africa by Mark Schoofs. I'm sure there are more. I'll add more links when I find them.
The American Journalism Review's April issue has an article on Journalism's Prize Culture. Bill Dedman wrote about serving on the 1990 Pulitzer jury for the Columbia Journalism Review. And Project Censored recently announced their list of top censored stories for the year.
posted by steve rhodes 4/10/2000 3:26:01 PM