Source: The American Prospect September 10, 2001 Title: Bailing Out Private Jails” Author: Judith Greene Faculty evaluator: Pat Jackson Student researchers Erich Lehmann, Michelle Oliva Corporate media coverage: The Wall Street Journal, 11/6/01 For close to a decade the private prison industry was booming because state legislators thought they could be both tough on crime [...]

Source: Madison Capital Times August, 2001 Title: Wal-Mart Ravages Workers’ Rights By John Nichols Reprinted In Asheville Global Report 9/6/01 Faculty evaluator: Phil McGough Student researcher: Kathy Jensen Wal-Mart has been pouring a considerable amount of money into a political campaign supporting a law that will reduce the wages and benefits for workers in Oklahoma. [...]

Source: The Animals’ Agenda March/April 2001 Title: Pissing their Lives Away Faculty Evaluator: Wendy Ostroff Student Researchers: Kelly Hand, Adam Cimino, Haley Mueller Premarin, the top selling hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women, is made from pregnant mares’ urine (PMU). Estrogen is extracted from the urine and is sold in many different forms to [...]

Sources: Mother Jones Magazine November / December 2001 Title: Aquaculture’s Troubled Harvest Author: Bruce Barcott PEW Oceans Commission Report on Marine Aquaculture, 2001 http://www.pewoceans.org Title: Marine Aquaculture in the United States: Environmental Impacts and Policy Options Authors: Rebecca J. Goldburg, Matthew S. Elliott, Rosamond L. Naylor Faculty evaluator: Bill Crowley Synopsis by: Anthony Sult, Adam [...]

Source: The Progressive Populist June 1, 2001 Title: Temps are Ready for Organizing If AFL-CIO Provides the Muscle Author: Harry Kelber Faculty/Community Evaluator: Michael Robinson Student Researcher: Eduardo Barragan, Connie Lytle Labor Ready Inc. is a national temporary employment agency that employed over 700,000 people in 2000. Labor Ready has 839 offices in 49 states [...]

Source: The London Observer October 8, 2000 Title: Gene Scientists Disable Plants’ Immune Systems Author: Antony Barnett Faculty evaluator: Albert Wahrhaftig Student researcher: Alessandra Diana, Gabrielle Mitchell Scientists working for Swiss food giant Novartis have developed and patented a method for ‘switching off’ the immune systems of plants, to the outrage of environmentalists and Third [...]

Sources: Dollars and Sense July/August 2001 Title: The Business of War in the Democratic Republic Of Congo: Who benefits? Authors: Dena Montague, Frieda Berrigan Voice (Pioneer Valley, MA) March/April, 2001 Title: Depopulation and Perception Management (Part 2: Central Africa) Author: keith harmon snow Honorable Mention: From Previous Censored Yearbook 2001 Title: U. S. Military and [...]

Source: Harpers January 2001 Title: Shoals Of Time: Are We Witnessing The Extinction of the World’s Coral Reefs? Author: Julia Whitty Faculty evaluator: Ervand Peterson Student researcher: Connie Lytle One-quarter of all coral reefs have been destroyed by pollution, sedimentation, over-fishing, and rapid global climate change. Coral reefs have survived enormous changes in our planet’s [...]

Source: Columbia Journalism Review JR Date: September/October 2001 Title: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: The Globalization Protests and the Befuddled Press Author: John Giuffo Faculty evaluator: Suzanne Toczyski Student researchers: Caroline Hubbard, Cathy Jensen, Derek Fieldsoe Corporate media coverage: NY Times, 2/5/02, A-15 The US press failed to inform the public of the core underlying [...]

Sources: Weekend Australian February, 23, 2003, p. 1 Title: Love Letter Tracks Terrorist’s Footsteps Author: Don Greenlees World Socialist Website: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/cia-m20_prn.shtml March 20, 2002 Title: U.S. Oversees Abduction, Torture, Execution of Alleged Terrorists Author: Barry Grey Original U.S. Source: * The Washington Post March 11, 2002, pg. A01 Title; U.S. Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects” [...]