Backpack Journalist

UN official looks at US housing crisis

anna — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:22:27 +0000

The economic crisis has hit American homeowners and renters especially hard. You can read the impact on the faces of the homeless and in the yard signs that say foreclosed. Now a UN official is seeing it for herself on a tour of the United States. Reporter Anna Sussman went along for the ride in L.A.

UN Official looks at US housing crisis

US Military Aid to Liberia Cause for Concern

anna — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:39:11 +0000

The US has donated some $200 million in military aid to re-train and re-arm Liberia’s military. While some say the notoriously criminal army needed the professional training, others are worried given the violent consequences US military aid to the country in the past. Anna Sussman reports for PRI’s The World. Liberia’s Military.

Conscripted by Poverty

anna — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:06:45 +0000

Anna Sussman’s article on the economics of the child soldier epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears in the new text book by Dollars and Sense: Real World Labor.
“Real World Labor provides up–to–date, accessible, and penetrating analysis of the most significant theoretical, historical, and practical issues confronting labor unions and workers on a national and global level. This collection includes 70 authoritative essays by leading writers and scholars of the labor movement.”

Women End Wars

anna — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:20:59 +0000

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's First Elected Female Head of State

Anna Sussman writes on the global movement for more female peace negotiators.

Liberia Stresses Need for Female Peacemakers

anna — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:15:09 +0000

A young Liberian girl at the International Women's Colloquium, Monrovia, Liberia

Our Hairy Orange Friends

anna — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:39:58 +0000

Anna Sussman and Jonathan Jones report that the rush for environmentally-friendly fuel is having a devastating impact on the island’s endangered orangutans for The World’s Geo Quiz.

The Answer is Sumatra

Rwanda on Trial

anna — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:37:38 +0000

How does a country recover from a genocide? In Rwanda, the government has implemented a traditional system of justice and reconciliation known as the Gacaca courts. The courts are expected to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people accused of participating in the 1994 genocide and promote reconciliation between genocide perpetrators and survivors. Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman were granted rare access to videotape the proceedings. They also traveled to other parts of the country to investigate underlying ethnic tensions.

Rwanda on Trial

Journalist Detained by US Military for Reporting

anna — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:46:04 +0000

Anna Sussman writes for the San Francisco Chronicle on the detention of a local journalist by the US Military in Afghanistan

Journalist Detained for Reporting

Missed a Backpackjournalist Broadcast?

anna — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:32:04 +0000

Find and view all the BackPackJournalist TV features from Africa, Asia and beyond here.

Food Uncertainties in Indonesia

anna — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:55:12 +0000

Poor families in Indonesia are forced to make hard choices as the price of food continues to rise. Watch the BackPackJournalist short film on Current TV, the first in a series on the global food crisis.

Food Crisis: Hard Choices