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The Web Inquirer - The International Investigative Magazine
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:58:13 CDT
From: "Jani Roberts of the Web Inquirer: at - http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer"
Announcing the launch of what is (as far as we can discover) the first Investigative Magazine and Library on the net with an international perspective. It's name is the Web Inquirer.
The metaphor for the website is that of a library with permanent exhibitions housed in different rooms. The library also has a monthly magazine, the Web Inquirer. The initial posting is over 70 documents with many of them new to the web (although we will pick up and repost significant relevant material from elsewhere when allowed - with acknowledgement and hot links to the original.) The site is attractive, with fast loading gifts and jpgs. It is truely international in scope. The first issue has stories from 5 continents.
Suitable contributions and hot links are invited, also correspondence for publication.
The library houses in permanent exhibitions in different rooms. For example there is a Room for the Vaccine Damaged (we are working with parents groups to extend this so it is a major international resource on vaccination. ) There is also a room for Aboriginal Australia with documentation on their struggle showing how early Nazi like ideology was employed to justify extermination policies in Australia (the author has lived with Aborigines for many years and made films and published books with them). There is also documentation on how US company Freeport is dumping over 120,000 tonnes a day of mine waste into rainforest rivers.
There is documentation on how the White House armed Iran in the 1980s (the October Surprise scandal). We intend to develop this into an exhibition on the CIA and on the arms- trade with much documentation waiting scanning in.
We are also covering the use by the diamond trade of debt bonded child labour to cut a large percentage of the world's gems. We also have an exclusive report from inside a South AFrican diamond mine (De Beers banned the author but she got in.) We show how the purveyor of romantic love and engagement rings - practices apartheid in today's South Africa... excluding black wives (and only black wives) from mining towns...- and how they recently used the law to stop black wives sleeping with their husbands.
We also have a report on the discovery of diamonds in Northern Canada and the impact of this discovery on the environment and on a herd of 350,000 caribou (the diamonds are in the caribou rutting grounds - with vast mines planned for these grounds ) and about the impact of this on the Dene, the traditional owners of this land, the hunters of the caribou. When a lesser threat endangered the smaller Porcupine herd there was a national uproar.
There is also documentation on gender liberation, on the violence inflicted on the transgendered, on the determining factors in what makes one male or female, on the theoretical background to western sexism,
We are also covering in the first issue such subjects as the mad cow disease and the US, the vigil for Cuba, Israel and even McDonalds.
And for relaxation, there is an art gallery, a spirit room, poetry and a meeting place.
We intend to develop this into a major net presence.
The work posted will need to be well written, well documented - and fearless. We will not be deterred by legal threats. This is the place for material that newspaper editors will not print. It is also a place for background documentation for breaking stories. We will use hypertext to show the links between stories and elements of stories.
We will welcome other writers although we canot pay them as yet. We hope individual rooms or exhibits can find sponsors. It is against our policy to charge for information on the net - we hope to find funds to sustain this site elsewhere in the long run. But the first priority is to get out information.This is a long term endeavour.
So - the address. The front page of the web inquirer is on http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer/news.html
the library is http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer.
This is just the beginning. The site is still developing. The net is our weapon and we have to forge it.
Janine Roberts, Editor, Web inquirer.
(a long term investigative journalist, member of IRE, maker of investigative documentaries , and writer for major papers - resume on site.) ```
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