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Georgianne Nienaber is an investigative environmental and political writer. She lives in rural northern Minnesota and South Florida. Her articles have appeared in The Society of Professional Journalists' Online Quill Magazine, the Huffington Post, The Ugandan Independent, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, Glide Magazine, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, b*tch Magazine, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction expose of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and was living in Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction and getting to know the people there in 2007. Nienaber is continuing "to explore the magic of the Deep South." She was a member of the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and is a current member of Investigative Rorters and Editors.
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Sunday, January 24, 2016Haiti's Political and Electoral Crisis Worsens Haiti's scheduled January 24 Presidential election has been postponed. It seems all the chickens have come home to roost after U.S. meddling and vote changing in the previous 2010 Presidential election, which installed Martelly under the watchful eyes of then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Series: Haiti Elections (3 Articles, 3636 views)
Thursday, January 21, 2016North Dakota Landowner Still Fighting Enbridge and Winning North Dakota Grand Forks District Judge Debbie Kleven ordered Canada's Enbridge Energy Partners to pay farmland owner James Botsford $45 thousand of $60 thousand in attorney fees. Judge Kleven also ruled that Enbridge would lose their easement if the proposed pipeline is not completed within five years.
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
Thursday, December 3, 2015Cholera Cases Triple in Haiti Since last Year Haiti recorded cholera cases triple (19,949 and 170 deaths) in July 2015 compared to July 2014 (7,739 cases and 56 deaths); a situation that raises concerns and requires vigilance in the contexts of the rainy season and hurricanes.
Monday, September 14, 2015What Are We Missing About Haiti in the Hillary Emails? The Fourth Estate is in foreclosure. The "who, what where, when, and why" of traditional coverage is missing. A thorough analysis of what is redacted or completely missing in the Clinton emails is not forthcoming, and the real scandal resides in politically motivated reporting. It is time that the press wipe themselves clean of political bias and stop shouting about the paper tiger of wiped servers.
Series: Haiti Elections (3 Articles, 3636 views)
Friday, August 28, 2015Minnesota Ojibwe Challenge Treaty Rights: What Would Chief Hole in the Day Do? Whatever anyone takes away from this personal observation, know that I fully support my Native neighbors in their fight against Enbridge. I'm just not sure that civil disobedience is the right way to go in this instance.
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
Thursday, August 13, 2015Enbridge Wins Round One in Lawsuit Against James Botsford James Botsford was beaten but unbowed as he stood in the lobby of the Grand Forks County District Courthouse, his wife Krista at his side. North Dakota Pipeline Company LLC (NDPL) had sued the couple for the right to an easement over his farmland located twenty miles from where he stood. Botsford's land is a lynchpin in the proposed $2.6 billion Sandpiper Pipeline.
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
Saturday, August 8, 2015"We Are Enbridge and We Don't Go Around Anything" No one seems able to answer the question as to how Enbridge became a "Public Utility" in Delaware, thereby assuming the powers of condemnation of Botsford's land in North Dakota. Enbridge doesn't provide any public services to North Dakotans, but wants to get its oil out of the state as quickly as possible for sale on the world market.
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
Tuesday, August 4, 2015Canadian Oil Company Trashes Indian Land and Faces Spiritual War Another example of the voices of American Indians being disregarded in favor of the rich and powerful. It is no coincidence that the route preferred by Canadian-based Enbridge crosses miles of vulnerable watersheds, crossing the poorest counties in Minnesota with the highest Native American populations, exposing those impoverished communities that already suffer from health disparities to severe and irreparable ecological harm
Saturday, June 13, 2015Ten Years After Katrina: NOLA Can Finally Throw Off the Cloak of Shame he flooding of New Orleans was not due to political pressure put on the Army Corps of Engineers by the OLB. The answer is profound in its simplicity and found in the details of an engineering study. Human error, subsequent finger pointing and the inability of the Army Corps to admit mistakes, contributed mightily to the post catastrophe suffering of the citizens of New Orleans.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015Banyamulenge Tutsi Refugees Just Want to Go Home So, we are left with some hope and the reality that 14,000 people just want to go home to their fertile valleys. It is one thing to be displaced within your own country, and quite another to be part of a generation forced to flee from country, home and history.Yes, hope does spring eternal, but the Banyamulenge and other Tutsi refugees do not have the luxury of eternal life in this world.
Friday, May 15, 2015Sacred Land Film Project Premieres Sunday on PBS This Sunday, May 17 at 9 pm ET, the PBS World Channel will begin its national broadcast of Standing on Sacred Ground, starting with "Pilgrims and Tourists." The next three episodes will run weekly on Sundays at 9 pm with "Profit and Loss" on May 24, "Fire and Ice" on May 31, and "Islands of Sanctuary" on June 14.
Friday, April 17, 2015Obama Ignores Atrocity and Tells Congo: Keep Up the Good Work A mountain of CLA reports confirm that Congo is more than a failed state, aided and abetted by the blind eyes of the international community, the USA, the State Department and our President. Congo is a cauldron of misery, blood and greed, stirred by the worst humanity has to offer.
Sunday, February 15, 2015Documentary Oscar Nominee "Virunga" Offers Fantasy and Not Fact There is a film, Virunga, competing for Best Documentary. Virunga has the potential, if it has not already, to greatly harm people of eastern Congo by conflating the political narrative to "humans vs. environment." People care more about a charismatic non-human species than they do about millions suffering under a brutal regime.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015Reservation Kids Doused With Beer at Hockey Game Did students and staff from the American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation deserve to have beer thrown on them and suffer additional verbal abuse by a group of grown and presumably drunk men at a hockey game? Should a ten-year-old native child be expected to assimilate a threat of "go back to the reservation," because an abusive white man accused him or her of not standing during the National Anthem?
Tuesday, January 27, 2015Psychopathic Politics in Congo Buries Opposition Kabila had telegraphed his intentions while he was carefully grooming the international press, NGOs, and filmmakers to ignore his pathological behavior against the opposition. Kabila successfully triangulated his relationships in order to justify vilification of anyone who successfully protested his regime.
Friday, December 19, 2014UNHCR Finally Speaks Out on Beni Massacres in Congo he United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) held a briefing in Geneva early this morning and condemned the ongoing massacre of civilians in the Beni area of eastern Congo. It is about time. Atrocities have been ongoing since October
Thursday, November 13, 2014Supermodel Astronauts are Everywoman and Every Woman Should Hear This For those of you completely freaked out by the Internet video featuring very young girls dressed like street-walking Cinderellas and spouting more F-bombs than one would hear in an Eastern European women's correctional facility, there is a soon-to-be viral antidote.
Saturday, October 11, 2014Indian Country: Big Oil and Inter-Generational Trauma When Winona LaDuke asked me to take a look at a piece she wrote for Indian Country Today this week, I knew immediately that her perspective needed an audience that Indian people often have difficulty reaching.
Sunday, July 13, 2014Following the Sandpiper: Pipelines As Modern Trade Routes Will we, as a nation, fall prey to "treaties" promising us riches beyond belief that big oil dangles? Will Congress and our President also lie to us, just as Jefferson did? Will we wrap ourselves in oil and drown in the salty byproducts of fracking while we watch towns burn from train explosions and die of thirst after our aquifers are poisoned?
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
Friday, June 27, 2014North Dakota Culture of Silence Opens the Door Wide for Big Oil Are we collectively opening the door to unbridled oil exploration when we do not question intent or at the very least demand information on infrastructure? Are we a generation of unwitting guides, leading the way to the destruction of our culture and way of life?
Series: Searching for the Sandpiper (7 Articles, 14786 views)
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