TomPaine.com www.tompaine.com
TomPaine.com is a public interest journal inspired by the great patriot Thomas Paine, author of
Common Sense and The Rights of Man. He used his talents to advance the cause of
liberty and democracy against distant and unaccountable rulers -- something that's needed now as
much as ever. TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues
by featuring the ideas, opinions and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media. This
is accomplished through an on-line journal, article reprints in other publications and unique regular
advertisements appearing on the op-ed page of The New York Times. Grants from The Glaser Progress
Foundation totalling $70,000 help place these provocative and creative Op Ads approximately every
other Wednesday in that newspaper. Op Ads have covered issues as diverse as the war in Iraq,
social security, campaign finance reform and the Patriot Act. Since its debut in September 1999,
TomPaine.com has established itself as a significant media presence by framing issues with a public-interest
sensibility. It has promoted controversy, coverage and imitation, while garnering praise from the public and the press alike.
Stichting VOEM www.b92.net
Radio B92 pioneered the use of the Internet as a means of
bypassing media repression, won global acclaim for helping bring down a corrupt and violent regime
and nurtured a thriving creative scene in Yugoslavia. In 1999, after the Milosevic government
confiscated B92's radio transmitter and turned off the station's Internet streaming software, the
Foundation provided urgent relocation support to independent and B92 journalists caught in the
Kosovo crisis, enabling them to move from exile locations to other parts of Europe
and resume broadcasting on the Internet. The Foundation's commitment to Radio B92 has continued
through support for the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) Legal Network and a
nationally broadcast weekly radio program for refugees and displaced persons residing in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Foundation has given $120,600 in grants to Stichting VOEM
over the last three years.
WITNESS www.witness.org
Co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, WITNESS strengthens grassroots
advocacy by making video and technology tools available to human rights defenders and mobilizes
public concern and activism in order to move human rights issues to the forefront of political
debate. WITNESS has partnered with over 150 groups from 50 countries to use video to overcome
political, economic and physical barriers, and expose human rights abuses to the world via
television, grassroots advocacy and Internet broadcasting. In May 1999, the Foundation awarded
WITNESS a $61,000 grant to train and equip five Kosovar Albanian journalists so that they could
enter Kosovo and document human rights abuses there by capturing witness testimonies and human
rights conditions on video. The results of this project were disseminated through the Internet
and other media. The Foundation has continued its commitment to WITNESS with grants of $50,000
in 2000 and 2001.
The Human Rights Project at Bard College hague.bard.edu
The Human Rights Project at Bard College, in collaboration with the New York-based International
Center for Transitional Justice, has created a comprehensive video archive of the landmark war
crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, accessible on the Internet. As the dramatic case against the
former Yugoslav President -- the first head-of-state to face an international trial for crimes
against humanity and genocide -- unfolds at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia in The Hague (Netherlands), the archived on-line broadcast will bring the proceedings
daily to thousands of viewers worldwide. The trial, which began on February 12, is the most
significant war crimes case in Europe since the Nazi prosecutions at Nuremberg. The initiative --
funded in part by a $37,000 matching grant from GPF -- will also create a permanent archive of high
quality digital video for the use of researchers, including broadcast and print journalists,
filmmakers, scholars and students.
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