|
Media
Scan:
Columbia
Journalism
Review
on
Cincinnati,
Arianna
Huffington
on
Colombia
7/20/01
Last April, following the shooting by an
unarmed young black man by Cincinnati police, an inner-city neighborhood
erupted into riot in response. An article by Dan Lazare in the Columbia
Journalism Review reveals the drug war's role in pushing a community to
the point where its rage boils over into social disturbance, an angle omitted
by nearly all the mainstream media. According to Lazare, this portion
of Cincinnati has a population of only 7,500, but averages 2,300 drug arrests
per year. Additionally, 1,500 people have been exiled under a law
allowing police to banish anyone arrested on drug charges, convicted or
not. Visit http://www.cjr.org/year/01/4/cincinnati.asp
to read the CJR story.
Arianna Huffington slams the drug war again
in her 7/16 column, "Good Morning, Colombia." Within the current
legislation, she reveals, is a provision to allow dramatic increases in
the number of paid mercenaries participating in the Colombian drug war.
Visit http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/071601.html
to read it.
Also covering the issue of civilian contractors,
The Nation magazine, republished by Alternet:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11170
-- END --
|
Issue #195, 7/20/01
Editorial: Robert Downey's Business | Prescription for Prosecution: Feds Go After Oxy Docs in Southwestern Virginia | BC Marijuana Industry Approaching Critical Mass, DEA Not Happy | Ditchweed Update: DEA Numbers | Narco News First Amendment Trial Begins, Electronic Frontier Foundation Files Amicus Brief | Media Scan: Columbia Journalism Review on Cincinnati, Arianna Huffington on Colombia | For Sale: Merchandise and Services to Benefit the Cause | HEA Campaign Gets Media: Student Victim Cases Still Needed | Urgent Action Alerts: Colombia, HEA, Mandatory Minimums, Medical Marijuana, John Walters | The Reformer's Calendar
|
This issue -- main page
This issue -- single-file printer version
Drug War Chronicle -- main page
Chronicle archives
|
PERMISSION to reprint or
redistribute any or all of the contents of Drug War Chronicle (formerly The Week Online with DRCNet is hereby
granted. We ask that any use of these materials include proper credit and,
where appropriate, a link to one or more of our web sites. If your
publication customarily pays for publication, DRCNet requests checks
payable to the organization. If your publication does not pay for
materials, you are free to use the materials gratis. In all cases, we
request notification for our records, including physical copies where
material has appeared in print. Contact: StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network,
P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 293-8340 (voice), (202)
293-8344 (fax), e-mail [email protected]. Thank
you.
Articles of a purely
educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of the DRCNet
Foundation, unless otherwise noted.
|
