Homelands producer Ruxandra Guidi has launched a podcast called “Happy Forgetting,” a collection of “personal and opinionated” audio essays and documentaries by audio makers from across the country.
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The Homelands Blog
Sharing our umbrella
Long known for our work in public radio, Homelands has been increasingly looking to nonprofit fiscal sponsorship as a way to fulfill our public service mission. We are currently sponsoring ten extraordinary projects.
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Migrant program’s “fatal flaw”
In a cover story for High Country News, photographer Bear Guerra documents the tension in US Border Control’s dual mission to detain and deport migrants and to rescue those in distress.
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Postscript to a story from 2007
Seventeen years after Jonathan Miller profiled a Peruvian metal worker with irreparable lung damage, the Inter-American Court ruled that Peru is responsible for failing to protect the population of one of the most polluted places on Earth.
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Guidi named Soros Equality Fellow
Homelands’ producer and board president is one of ten people receiving grants for projects that promote racial equality. She will use the award to produce a narrative podcast, Happy Forgetting, that tells untold stories about racial justice victories in the United States.
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Recasting Animism
In her essay “The Spirit of the Rillito,” Ruxandra Guidi looks at how Indigenous worldviews can help us understand the world we live in. The piece in High Country News grew out of conversations at the Religion and Environment Story Project, a fellowship that trains journalists and scholars interested in the intersection of the environment and religion.
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Chris Brookes, in memoriam
Chris Brookes, a brilliant radio producer, writer, actor, and all-around creative genius who worked with Homelands on several projects, died in an accident at his home in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Senior producer Alan Weisman provides a remembrance.
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Guards sow fear in sugar camps
In a piece published by The Intercept, Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel describe how armed bands of masked men descend on labor camps and forcibly evict residents. Tolan and Cordero Nuel won an Overseas Press Club Award for their reporting on labor abuses by the giant Dominican sugar exporter Central Romana.
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Maritza Félix is Cecilia Vaisman awardee
The freelance journalist, producer, and writer founded the Spanish-language news service Conecta Arizona, which connects people in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The award is named after Homelands co-founder Cecilia Vaisman, who died in 2015.
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Homelands launches legal defense fund
The fund is intended for journalists who need help paying legal fees and related costs incurred as a consequence of being arrested while doing their jobs, or those who are facing lawsuits filed against them because of their reporting.