Nation Institue Awards for Goodman & Steinem

By Bob Feldman

Did you notice the following announcement that was posted on site of The Nation Institute (whose board members include both a former PBS board member/MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" program director/NYU graduate school dean and the current publisher of the Ford Foundation-subsidized Columbia Journalism Review magazine)? So don't expect many U.S. anti-war grassroots left critics of The Nation magazine's coverage of 9/11 truth movement activists to be appearing on the "Democracy Now!" show in 2007.--bob


Nation Institute Anniversary Dinner

The Nation Institute's annual dinner is December 11 in NYC. This year we are honoring Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Alice Waters, of the legendary Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, is creating the menu. The evenining will also feature Calvin Trillin and Katrina vanden Heuvel. For information about purchasing tickets, please contact Liliana Segura at (212) 209-5442.

2006 Masur Award Winner

The Nation Institute is pleased to announce that Dina Awerbuch is the recipient of the 2006 Robert Masur Fellowship in Civil Liberties. Awerbuch will spend her summer in Washington D.C. conducting research on the U.S. practice of extraordinary rendition and other civil rights abuses in the War on Terror. This award is granted annually to a distinguished first-year law student undertaking research or an internship focused on civil rights or civil liberties issues. Read more about the prize here.

2006 Ridenhour Prize Winners Announced

The 2006 recipients of the Ron Ridenhour Awards honoring “truth-telling” are:
Gloria Steinem, lifelong feminist activist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine; Anthony Shadid, Washington Post reporter and author of Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of War; and Rick Piltz, whistleblower who exposed the Bush Administration’s campaign to doctor and downplay government climate change reports.
The awards, each of which carries a $10,000 cash stipend, memorialize and foster the fearless spirit of Ron Ridenhour, who broke the story of the My Lai massacre and later became an award winning investigative journalist. The awards were established by the Fertel Foundation and the Nation Institute in 2003. More information is available at www.ridenhour.org .