I have been living in, and writing about, Oaxaca and Mexico for over 10 years.  My partner, the photographer Diana Ricci, whose photos are as essential as my screed to our "Oaxaca / Mexico Newsletter", are readers of, and contributors to, the Narco News site, and the School of Authentic Journalism.  We attended the first school, in Merida, Mexico, as instructors - but we really became students, happy when our temporary (but really confining) ill health allowed us to attend workshops by such luminaries as Jules Siegel, Gary Webb, Mario Menendez and Al Giordano, to name only a few; and to rub shoulders with Luís and Dan and the rest of the crew.

Aside from all the good work the JornoSchool initiates and sustains, it's also great fun and a wonderful chance for the young and the young at heart to find each other in a way that makes for an ever expanding network of friendship and collaboration on what is often a difficult and dangerous road of speaking truth to power.

We contribute small amounts of money when we can, which is not as often as we'd like.  But there is one contribution we can make that is both unique and not costly: we can donate our labor.