Author: storiesinamerica

Here are excerpts from a story I recently wrote for AlterNet about Operation House Call, a summer campaign to highlight the ongoing human toll of the Iraq war. Other than a newspaper in Southern California and the Chicago...

 The following is an update on Suzanne Swift, the young woman who is awaiting the outcome of an investigation into allegations that she was sexually harassed and assaulted by three American sergeants in Iraq. Here’s a...

Here are excerpts from my latest AlterNet.org article about Suzanne Swift and sexual assault in the military. Tomorrow marks a national day of action to call for Swift’s honorable discharge. Protests will occur at the...

The War Tapes, a documentary that shows the Iraq war thorugh the eyes of soldiers, opens today in selected cities. I saw it a few nights ago and highly recommend it. The filmmakers gave cameras to five soldiers from the New...

*This is part of my ongoing series with the voters and non-voters we rarely hear from in the traditional media. Whenever I approached a young African American at the Juneteenth festival in San Francisco, I always heard the same...