Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Al Giordano" in English language version.
To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argued, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
On Monday evening I received some sad news: Al Giordano, who was the political columnist at The Boston Phoenix in the mid-1990s, had died in Mexico, where he'd made his home for many years. The cause was lung cancer, according to retired Boston Globe editor Matt Storin, who was Al's uncle
In the spring of 2001, they [American journalists] began to take notice; Banamex had filed a libel suit in New York state court the previous summer against Giordano and the man who had run the original stories in Mexico, the newspaper publisher Mario Menendez.
When he's not traveling, he spends most of his time parked in front of a laptop computer chain-smoking filterless cigarettes while answering e-mail, translating articles from the Spanish-language press, or composing endless diatribes denouncing what he considers the moral bankruptcy of the American drug war. Occasionally, Giordano files reports for the Phoenix or The Nation, but most of his writing is confined to the pages of the Web site he launched in the spring of 2000 after leaving Chiapas.
This is a story about working with Al Giordano I just wrote for the 35th anniversary of the Valley Advocate.
The Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign, an anti-nuclear power group, says the plant should be decommissioned because of its age.
A group called Rowe Nuclear Conversion Campaign filed suit two weeks ago in Franklin County Superior Court seeking to shut down the plant.
On Monday, the owners of Yankee Rowe, shut down after years of protests by environmentalists, reported that new estimates of the shutdown costs for the plant were $247 million – twice the earlier predictions, and more than three times the amount the plant's owners have set aside so far to cover the costs.
Mr. Nagel, 24, is one of dozens of downtown activists who have rallied around the Zapatista National Liberation Army, the rebel group that became prominent in the southern Mexican state Chiapas in early 1994 and has been pushing for land and more autonomy for indigenous Indians..."They're winning," said Al Giordano, a freelance journalist who lives on the Lower East Side and who spent four months in Chiapas last fall.
This is the core group of "Alt-left," "Bernie Bro," "dirtbag left," Intercept, Jacobin, Bruenig boys, whatever name they go by.
In 2000 in New York City, Narco News was sued by the Mexican bank Banco Nacional de México over its reporting on drug sales. The case was closely followed by the media and resulted in the landmark decision that online journalists have the same First Amendment protection as traditional print journalists.
Obama has not only out-raised the Clinton machine but also each of the Republican candidates. The era of supremacy by the well-heeled max-out donor is finally being chipped down to size, one small donation at a time. (For those wishing to do the math themselves, Opensecrets.org provides a wonderful online guide to following the money trail.) Win or lose, Obama-or, better said, his grassroots supporters-may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing that finally weans the process from it previous dependence on influence money.
Giordano says the one thing that would stop him from running would be if Sanders changes his tone and makes a serious effort at unifying the party and bringing his supporters around in time for the Democratic National Convention.
Giordano, a 56-year-old journalist and organizer, began his career working against nuclear power plants in New England, then worked with Abby Hoffman through the 1980s. He wrote for The Nation in the 1990s, before leaving the U.S. to report on the Zapatistas in Mexico and on the ravages of the drug war. In 2008, Giordano was a vocal and animated supporter of Barack Obama — and an impassioned critic of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't be crazy to suspect he has a "Feel the Bern" tattoo.
Living in Rowe, Mass., he became a successful grassroots organizer beginning with his work opposing the twin power plants Yankee Rowe and Vermont Yankee, which straddled the Vermont border.
The first to grasp the portent of what was taking shape was the prophet of the Obama paradigm shift, the journalist/activist/online editor/blogger Al Giordano, who, as a student of the teachings and tactics of community organizer Saul Alinsky .. divined the advantage that Obama's small-donor base gave him against old-school juggernauts.
Al Giordano, whose blogging about the ground war on RuralVotes' "The Field" was one of the sensations of the primary season, was even more curt.
This is a story about working with Al Giordano I just wrote for the 35th anniversary of the Valley Advocate.
Living in Rowe, Mass., he became a successful grassroots organizer beginning with his work opposing the twin power plants Yankee Rowe and Vermont Yankee, which straddled the Vermont border.
To prepare for 2018, Giordano says he'll set up an "organizing academy in Vermont so that people can finally get the training that the Sanders campaign wouldn't give them." He'll seek small donations just as Sanders and President Obama did. He'll conduct a listening tour. And he won't be afraid to work with Democrats, whose party, Giordano argued, is being needlessly split in twain by Sanders' camp.
So let me plug a project by a mutual acquaintance of ours, my former Boston Phoenix colleague Al Giordano. Al has started an online newsletter called the Narco News Bulletin. Drawing in large part on the Mexican press, Al will focus on narco-politics in Latin America and on the United States' role in nurturing and perpetuating policies that are killing people on both sides of the border.
