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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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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, 14784 views)
Wednesday, September 7, 2016Hey Judge! How About Protecting the Chief Buried in the Big Dipper? I have a question for the judge. How could he allow construction to continue on private land, endangering a significant historical find, when the "rules" include "upland areas dependent on the location of the crossing?"
Series: Standing Rock Stands Against DAPL (43 Articles, 113768 views)
Thursday, September 20, 2007Are USAID Funds Being Used for Covert Operations in Central Africa? In 2005, Amnesty International reported large quantities of weapons and ammunition from the Balkans and Eastern Europe were flowing into Africa's conflict-ridden Great Lakes region, Kivu Province, and Virunga Park.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009International Court Acquits Suspect in Murder of Dian Fossey The International Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) announced it has overturned a 20-year sentence and acquitted Protais Zigiranyirazo, accused genocidaire and suspected murderer of American primatologist Dian Fossey. Citing "serious errors" during the 2008 trial, ICTR Chamber Judge Theodore Meron ordered the immediate release of Zigiranyirazo, known as Mr. Z.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011Haiti: Clean Water Is a Human Right If You Can Find it OCHA reports that several non-governmental "charity" organizations (NGOs) are about to reduce their activities relating to clean water and sanitation "because of a lack of funding or to focus on longer term strategies." The problem is that, once introduced into an ecosystem, the cholera bacterium will not go away, even if the relief organizations do so.
Thursday, December 8, 2016Fate of Dakota Access Pipeline Remains in Limbo Over Missing Documents The fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline is not over yet. Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners requested that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issue a ruling at a hearing scheduled Friday morning that would allow the company to complete the project
Series: Standing Rock Stands Against DAPL (43 Articles, 113768 views)
Tuesday, December 4, 2012Is Rwanda the Victim in a Modern Day Salem Witch Trial? A critical analysis will ask why a photo, freely available on the Internet, of the commander of the M23 rebels wearing US patterns was left out of the report of the UN Group of Experts . Reason? It does not fit the narrative developed and nurtured by a biased panel that defines aid to rebels by the cammo patterns on their uniforms.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008Gorilla Industry Exposed (Again) in Central Africa International Press Scratches the Surface on "Inside Job" Behind Gorilla Slaughter While Big Stories of Depopulation, Corporate Plunder and War Remain Hidden in the Mists of Propaganda
Thursday, January 11, 2007CONGO REBELS SHOOT SILVERBACK GORILLA An endangered silverback gorilla was shot and killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo 29 years after Dian Fossey's "Digit" was killed.The killing happened on January 5, 2007, less than 600 metres from a patrol post at Bikenge, which was recently abandoned following rebel attacks.
Sunday, July 18, 2010Thad Allen Tells BP Seabed "Seeping" and Demands More Monitoring Adm. Thad Allen released a letter to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley tonight in which he demands that BP provide more monitoring information, citing "a detected seep a distance from the well and undetermined anomalies at the well head."
Monday, July 5, 2010BP's PR Firm Embedded with Coast Guard In her own words, Polish is a media liaison for the Coast Guard, a Coast Guard reservist, a photographer for the Coast Guard, a branding and media specialist, and is working for Ogilvy, whose client is BP, "Creating engaging experiences designed to promote awareness, brand loyalty, advocacy and conversion."
Monday, October 31, 2016President Obama: They Shoot Horses and Teenage Boys on the Dakota Access Pipeline In the update at the end of this submission you will then see the water protector shot off his horse at point blank range with rubber bullets, and then his horse shot at point blank range.
Series: Standing Rock Stands Against DAPL (43 Articles, 113768 views)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010Congo Volcano Still Active: Lava Flow Approaches Goma/Bukavu Road The National Institute for the Conservation of Nature though stated today that it was concerned about the threat posed by this eruption on the Virunga National Park ecosystems and wildlife, including the
Saturday, July 10, 2010Social Networking on Steroids Spotlights BP Spill It is impossible for news organizations and independent journalists to be everywhere, but the people of the Gulf Coast have access to every bayou, every backwater, every inch of Pensacola Beach, the Atchafalaya Basin, Grand Isle, Orange Beach and every drop of oil that is ruining their lives. Now, they can document it for the world to see.
Sunday, December 4, 2016Hawaii's Tulsi Gabbard Joins Water Protectors at Standing Rock In a show of solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is joining thousands of veterans from across the United States who have come to Standing Rock and the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to protest the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Series: Standing Rock Stands Against DAPL (43 Articles, 113768 views)
Friday, January 7, 2011Port-au-Prince Still Buried Under the Rubble of Competing NGOs Both OXFAM and the Disaster Accountability Project released reports this week that enhance already serious criticism of the relationship between the Government of Haiti and NGOs, and the inability of both to offer support to the Haitian people.
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.
Friday, July 29, 2011Sex for Work in Haiti Could it be true that transactional sex, kickbacks, and other "favors" are de facto requirements for Haitians applying for work that is funded by USAID?
Thursday, August 14, 2008New Orleans Musicians Take Wetlands Message to DNC and RNC Tab Benoit and the Voice of the Wetlands All Stars have accomplished something that is quite remarkable. They will open the Democratic Convention in Denver and continue with a string of non-partisan fund- raisers road show that will end on September 1st in Minneapolis for an invitation only, non-partisan Republican Convention after party.
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