Bill Weinberg

Bill Weinberg is an award-winning journalist and editor of the on-line weekly World War 4 Report. He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico and War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America. As a correspondent for Native Americas, the quarterly journal of Cornell University's American Indian Program, he has won three awards from the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) for his reportage on indigenous issues from Nicaragua to Arizona. He also co-hosts the anarchist-oriented Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (Tuesdays at midnight on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM). He is currently working on a book about Plan Colombia and indigenous resistance movements in the Andes.

InvestigationEnvironment, World

Peruvians Face Off Against Newmont Mining

The Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corporation is embroiled in a controversial project in Peru that locals say threatens their water and their future.

Bill WeinbergThe ProgressiveJuly 25, 2012

InvestigationWorld

Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?

President García’s legislative decrees, promulgated in 2008 to ready Peru for the new U.S. free trade agreement — would open indigenous lands to oil drilling, logging, and resource extraction as never before.

Bill WeinbergNACLANovember 2, 2009

InvestigationJustice, World

A Truth Commission on the Amazon Massacre

Weinberg exposes a June 2009 police massacre of indigenous activists opposing oil exploitation in Peru’s Amazon, while protests against a Hunt Oil contract threaten renewed unrest.

Bill WeinbergIndian Country TodayOctober 13, 2009

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