Alan Weisman arrested while covering pipeline protest
Journalist, author, and Homelands cofounder Alan Weisman was arrested on June 7 while covering the Line 3 anti-pipeline protests in northern Minnesota. The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for local officials to explain the arrest. Weisman was clearly working as a journalist at the time.
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A reckoning in Gaza
"Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, with its unconscionable numbers of civilian casualties, is proof of a bankrupt U.S. policy," writes Sandy Tolan in the Daily Beast. To make progress toward a lasting peace, America "must confront the tragic mess it helped create, and abandon the foreign policy its own inaction undermined."
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Thirty years later, this story still moves
As part of NPR's 50th anniversary celebration, All Things Considered revisits "Sugar and Sorrow in Hispaniola," a 1991 story by Sandy Tolan and Alan Weisman that one listener never forgot.
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- Friend & fellow @HomelandsProd homie, Alan Weisman, was arrested at Line 3 protests yesterday while wearing promine… https://t.co/D6yGzbN60s
- From our Sandy Tolan. https://t.co/DeDA0PDDDg
- Amazing read. Thanks Alan Weisman. https://t.co/LYuQTiXeYG
- The young readers' edition of my book, "The Lemon Tree" is out now in print, digital and audiobook formats. “[Tolan… https://t.co/r0aNpjdqN2