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SPRING 2013

  • Photographer Al Bello's Reconstructed Home in Merrick, N.Y.

    Rebuilding in the Rockaways

    One year after he rebuilt his Rockaways home, destroyed by Hurricane Irene, a superstorm undid all of Al Bello’s hard work. Here, he talks about how he and his family cope with recovering — again.

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    Learning to Look for Resilience

    When catastrophe strikes—whether an earthquake leveling Haiti or a hurricane sloshing onto a U.S. shore—it is often assumed that social disintegration will follow. But time and again, that assumption is proven wrong.

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  • Secondary Story

    • Historic Drought Cripples Ranches And Farms In American West

      America’s Slow-Moving Disaster

      It’s easy to see the effects of hurricanes, tornadoes and even famines. But the severe drought in the American West is harder to photograph. John Moore of Getty Images finds the story.

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    • by Loving Earth/Creative Commons.

      None of What Was Unfolding Belonged to Me Anymore

      An accident and a hurricane leave a trauma journalist homeless, twice, just a few days apart.

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      Buried by Disasters

      Decades of unrest, natural and political, have left Haiti’s journalists fatigued of fighting for the truth. After generations of disaster, will they disengage?

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    • New York And New Jersey Continue To Recover From Superstorm Sandy

      Why the little losses can be the hardest

      Hurricane Sandy took homes and lives in New Jersey. But it was the loss of comparatively little things — photographs, cookbooks, high school trophies — that seemed to hit residents hardest.

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  • Editor's Note

    • Editor’s Note

      As the news cycle lurches from one piqued moment of manmade violence to another, we wanted to take account of survival and healing after loss of a different kind – after natural disasters, tragedies sparked not by human culprits but by our environment. We hope these stories of survival and resilience find a wide audience as the U.S. copes with yesterday’s tornado, in Oklahoma.

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  • Tertiary Story

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      In New Orleans, Putting Things Past

      A writer and a city recover together

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      Trauma on Tour

      A journalist relives his trauma on demand — on his book tour

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  • Our Mission

    The mission of The Ochberg Society is to connect and support journalists worldwide who advance the compassionate and ethical coverage of trauma, conflict and social injustice. Visit ochbergsociety.org for more information.
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    Acts of Witness is produced by The Ochberg Society.

    Jina Moore, Acts of Witness Editor
    Sarah Kess, Acts of Witness Managing Editor
    Deirdre Stoelzle Graves, Ochberg Society Executive Director

    Founding Acts of Witness Committee
    Julia Lieblich, chairwoman
    Maria Alvarez
    Clara Germani
    Jim Trotter
    Jacques Menasche
    Lori Grinker
    Deirdre Stoelzle Graves

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