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February 08, 2007

Help Support Continuing Middle East Independent Reportage

Friends, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jeff Pflueger. I've worked closely with Dahr since nearly the beginning of his reporting from the Middle East, using my skills on the web to reach as many people as we can with Dahr's important journalism.

As you know, Dahr has contributed invaluably towards informing the international community about the realities in Iraq.

What you might not know, is that it is primarily because of your support that this was possible. So thank you!

Dahr has been getting the story right on Iraq when the U.S. corporate media reporting was so wrong. While most of the U.S. media were practicing “hotel journalism” or embedding themselves with U.S. troops, Dahr went out into the streets to get the stories that weren't being told.

Now, for two years in a row, Dahr has been honored with two of the top ten stories of the year from Project Censored. Just this year, he was honored with the #1 story of the hottest stories of the year from Inter Press Service. Dahr has appeared on innumerable radio and tv programs, and has toured internationally giving over 100 presentations to packed auditoriums.

He would not have been able to achieve any of this without your support.

Now, with the situation in the Middle East more critical than ever, we need to reach even more Americans with the realities on the ground in the MidEast.

That's why I plan to join Dahr on his next assignment to the Middle East. As a photojournalist who has worked for the New York Times, National Geographic Adventure and other major U.S. periodicals, I will help Dahr tell his stories with compelling images. As Dahr's webmaster and multi-media producer, I will be able to put Dahr's reporting and my images into exciting formats directly from the field. We anticipate that these multimedia productions will reach far more people in this age of YouTube and streaming video than a text-only story could.

If we can raise the funding, our plans are to spend a minimum of one month reporting from different areas in the Middle East this spring, longer if the funding is adequate.

The Dahr Jamail team is officially bumping it up a notch
You are formally invited to come along for the ride.

But we need your support for this coming project.

With two of us going loaded with lots of equipment, our expenses are considerably more than what they have been in the past.

For those of you that have contibuted generously in the past, thank you for supporting Dahr's work.

For those of you who follow Dahr's work, but have never donated, if you each gave as little as $5.00, we'd would reach our funding goals for this new and exciting project.

Any amount is helpful, we welcome the help.

There are three ways that you can choose to donate:

OnLine

Visit the website here

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/donate

And choose what you can give. Any amount helps.

By Mail

Donations can also be mailed directly to:

Dahr Jamail
P.O. Box 9095
Berkeley, CA 94709

Tax Deductable Donations

Checks for tax-deductible donations should be made out to "International Media Project", and please write "Dahr Jamail" in the memo line. Mail Checks to:

International Media Project/Dahr Jamail
1714 Franklin St. #100-251
Oakland, CA 94612

Thank you for your support of Dahr's work.

Sincerely,

Jeff Pflueger
(Webmaster, DahrJamailIraq.com)

Posted by Dahr_Jamail at February 8, 2007 11:30 PM