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'Denial in the Corps' Sparks VideoInvestigative Fund Article by Kathy Dobie
A February 2008 article, Denial in the Corps, by Kathy Dobie, supported by the Institute's Investigative Fund and published in The Nation magazine, was recently revisited by the nascent video journalism website, American News Project. Working from Dobie's investigative article about returned Marines with PTSD who receive punishment, rather than treatment, the video features Cynthia Fleming, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. James Jenkins, a decorated Marine who returned from Iraq with PTSD and killed himself after being denied treatment. Dobie's article begins, "Marine Lance Cpl. James Jenkins is buried in the same New Jersey cemetery that he used to run through on his way to high school, stopping at the Eat Good Bakery to get two glazed doughnuts and an orange juice before heading off to class. When his mother, Cynthia Fleming, visits his grave, she looks over the low cemetery wall at not only the bakery but the used-car lot where James used to sell Christmas trees during the winter and the nursing home where he worked every summer and says, "Lord, son, you're on your own turf." James, who died at 23, is buried in Greenwood Cemetery; the owners told Cynthia they're proud to have him there." Click here to read the rest of the article. |
Working In The ShadowsA Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. Check out Thompson's interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley here. More El Monstruo: Book TourFebruary 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
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