http://togetherliberia.org We're a platform for Liberian storytellers using text, audio and visual media. Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:25:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://togetherliberia.org/bridging-past-and-present/ http://togetherliberia.org/bridging-past-and-present/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:44:54 +0000 Chad Stevens http://togetherliberia.org/?p=2158 http://togetherliberia.org/bridging-past-and-present/feed/ 1 It’s haunting. Echoes of war all around, but life moves at such a blurring speed it would be easy to not notice. Yesterday I crossed a bridge where a photograph was made by Chris Hondros during the war. I instantly knew the place because that image had become an icon of the conflict in Liberia. [...] http://togetherliberia.org/the-radio-is-coming-to-you/ http://togetherliberia.org/the-radio-is-coming-to-you/#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:50:47 +0000 Cameron Zohoori http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1274 http://togetherliberia.org/the-radio-is-coming-to-you/feed/ 0 During our sojourn to the seaside town of Cestos, capital of Rivercess County, we launched the Soundbooth, an audio documentary project modeled on NPR’s StoryCorps. The idea is to have two people very familiar with each other – a mother and a daughter, a teacher and a student, a pair of friends – interview each [...] http://togetherliberia.org/local-radio-is-key-to-liberians-stories/ http://togetherliberia.org/local-radio-is-key-to-liberians-stories/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:41:15 +0000 Luisa Ryan http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1296 http://togetherliberia.org/local-radio-is-key-to-liberians-stories/feed/ 0 We began this week by spending two nights in Cestos, the capital of Rivercess County. One of the aims of the Together Liberia project is to give greater voice to people in communities outside of Monrovia. The print media here in particular seems to concentrate mostly on big-city politics. I have yet to see a [...] http://togetherliberia.org/to-the-media-the-answer-is-yes/ http://togetherliberia.org/to-the-media-the-answer-is-yes/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:54:48 +0000 Steve Davis http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1283 http://togetherliberia.org/to-the-media-the-answer-is-yes/feed/ 0 I continue to be amazed at the uncommon access we get here while working on our stories. Bureaucrats, as well as everyday people, haven’t caught on to what’s become the default answer to the media in America: “No.” Instead, here we ask — and our sources say “yes.” They are happy to have their stories [...] http://togetherliberia.org/suppression-inna-we-nation-it-makes-the-poor-people-weep/ http://togetherliberia.org/suppression-inna-we-nation-it-makes-the-poor-people-weep/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:20:01 +0000 Cameron Zohoori http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1172 http://togetherliberia.org/suppression-inna-we-nation-it-makes-the-poor-people-weep/feed/ 0 Corruption bringing poverty And poverty putting my sisters on the street… They abuse us many days And misuse us so many ways - Nasseman, ‘Bonkey’ We were first introduced to Rabbie Nassrallah, aka Nasseman, last Wednesday night, by Sayeed, the manager of our guesthouse. We didn’t realize at the time that we were meeting Liberia’s [...] http://togetherliberia.org/the-paradox-that-is-liberia/ http://togetherliberia.org/the-paradox-that-is-liberia/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:32:49 +0000 DaveTW http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1159 http://togetherliberia.org/the-paradox-that-is-liberia/feed/ 0 A teenage boy lives with his family on the third floor of an abandoned office building on Broad Street in Downtown Monrovia, Liberia. Teenaged school children mingle during a break between classes at Cestos High School. The school district in Rivercess County offer one Primary elementary and one high school for the entire county. Often [...] http://togetherliberia.org/images-from-training/ http://togetherliberia.org/images-from-training/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:26:12 +0000 Bruce Strong http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1107 http://togetherliberia.org/images-from-training/feed/ 0 It’s been a great week. We completed our first series of training sessions yesterday. Through lectures and exercises, we guided the students through lessons on story development, interviewing techniques, audio storytelling, writing, photographic storytelling and key principles, such as ethics. Next week, we head out to the countryside to put those lessons into practice as [...] http://togetherliberia.org/more-politics-over-lunch/ http://togetherliberia.org/more-politics-over-lunch/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:41:29 +0000 Steve Davis http://togetherliberia.org/?p=859 http://togetherliberia.org/more-politics-over-lunch/feed/ 0 William Morris by William Morris, of the Liberty Party, shares his thoughts about the role of a free press in the upcoming elections. We approached Morris and friends at their lunch table. http://togetherliberia.org/together-liberia-on-truth-fm-the-leading-lady/ http://togetherliberia.org/together-liberia-on-truth-fm-the-leading-lady/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:13:59 +0000 Ken Harper http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1050 http://togetherliberia.org/together-liberia-on-truth-fm-the-leading-lady/feed/ 0 Together Liberia on Truth FM, The Leading Lady by Together Liberia   Believe in yourself. Don’t be bitter. Don’t be negative. You can do it. From 10:15 to 11 every Friday night from a studio in downtown Monrovia, “The Leading Lady” on Truth FM 96.1 talks Liberians into believing in themselves — and, she hopes, [...] http://togetherliberia.org/class-is-in-session/ http://togetherliberia.org/class-is-in-session/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:31:36 +0000 Steve Davis http://togetherliberia.org/?p=1022 http://togetherliberia.org/class-is-in-session/feed/ 0 Our first class of students showed up Wednesday, and they put in a full morning and afternoon of work. We’ll be working with them at our headquarters in Monrovia all of this week; next week we plan to travel out into one of Liberia’s 15 counties to find stories to tell there. The idea is [...]