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Your newspaper needs $5,000 in donations this month to continue reporting the news from Latin America into 2008. Thanks to matching grants, your $50 donation will bring $100, no matter how large or small your contribution will be doubled: But only if enough of you act now.

If we do not meet this goal by the end of the year, Narco News will have to severely cut back on original reporting and on translations to English and other languages. Authentic journalism is scarce enough already. Please rise to the challenge by making your donation online today at:

www.authenticjournalism.org

Or by sending a check made out to:

The Fund for Authentic Journalism
PO Box 241
Natick, MA 01760 (United States)

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The Narco News Bulletin is an online newspaper that reports on the drug war and democracy from Latin America.

Launched on April 18, 2000, Narco News now counts with 300 journalists and co-publishers that break the Commercial Media's information blockade from throughout the hemisphere, and features investigative reporting and translations in seven languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German and Dutch.

In 2000, Narco News was sued by Banamex-Citigroup for having told the truth about its role in the corrupt war on drugs.

In 2001, the New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the journalists of Narco News and against the largest financial institution on earth. The Court established, for the first time, that Internet journalists now have the same Free Speech protections as the commercial press, radio and TV networks.

"Narco News, its website, and the writers who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist... Furthermore, the nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordano's statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug trade and its affect on people living in this hemisphere..."

-- Supreme Court of the State of New York, December 5, 2001

The struggle to construct a more Authentic Journalism than that allowed by the commercial press continues on our pages.

Many subscribers to this list redistribute our communiqués to their own networks, which we appreciate very much.

From somewhere in a country called América,

salud y abrazo,

Al Giordano, publisher

The Narco News Bulletin

http://www.narconews.com/

Authentic Journalist Nancy Davies' reports from the Mexican city of Oaxaca throughout 2006 during the rise of the Popular Assembly movement have been compiled into one book (with additional updates by Davies).

Introduction by George Salzman

Preface by Al Giordano