Street Team '08: EricaAmerica
 
 
 
   
 
"Stay far from timid, only make moves when ya heart's in it, and live the phrase, Sky's The Limit." - Notorious B.I.G.
Why I’m Here

 

 

 

I am a citizen journalist for MTV's Street Team '08. In total there are 51 of us canvassing each state and Washington, DC (that’s me). MTV and The Knight Foundation hired each of us for an experiment in guerilla, multimedia journalism.

 

I studied Journalism and Political Science at Indiana University. I darted out to DC months after graduation, attracted to the a city full of brilliant minds, hard core journalists, curiosity matched with questions and the opportunity to make my own path. 

 

If you see a girl with a backpack of gear break into a sprint on K Street-- or the Mall -- or hell, in the Metro, wave hello. That's me, Erica America, on the hunt. I see potential in everything and everyone, but want to cover stories that are untold. Underexposed. And of course, all things that speak to us -- the young people who are often not addressed by politicians and mainstream press.

  

Here. Goes. Nothing.

 

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[ARCHIVE BY TOPIC]

 

Veteran Issues

Mission Possible -- Iraq Veterans--6/24

Young Surge in the Anti-War Movement -- 6/17

GI Bill -- Body Armor or Brain Power? -- 5/13

Decision to Desert: Part II -- 4/8 

Decision to Desert: Part I -- 4/1

The U.S. Military: Vol•un•teers at War -- 3/25 

A Government Issued Right -- 3/18

 

National News From a Local Eye

The Campaign for a Rival -- Hillary's New Move -- 6/10

Crime and Punishment in the Democratic Party -- 6/3 

Congress Debates Education Budget -- 3/12
A Campaign In Crisis -- 3/4
Clinton's Last, Best Hope -- 2/26

DC's Super Tuesday is Here -- 2/13

Dawn of the DC Primary -- 2/12 
Kennedy Endorses Obama -- 1/29

 

Features & Profiles

The Memorial Day Mix -- 5/27

Ten Minutes with Eric Marshall -- 4/29

At the Intersection of Issues-- 4/15 

The Way Helen (Thomas) Sees It -- 2/21

 

Environment

A Star, the Pope and Earth Day -- 4/22

 

Gay Rights, Civil Rights

Subject: Did You See? -- 5/20
Supreme Civil Liberties -- 5/6

 

 

 

 

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Mission Possible
"Humanize this War. If It Is Humanized, People Will Start to Care." HT to Me, January 2008. These Are Our Peers...
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