Dear Friends and Supporters of The Fight Back,
Thank You! In three months TheFightBack.org has gone from an interesting idea to a news outlet where hundreds of people a week go to find out what’s happening in the District of Columbia and beyond. We couldn’t have done this without you spreading the word and we want to say, Thank you and keep it up!
An example of the impact we’ve had can be seen in our education coverage. Our interview with former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee at an upscale reception at Union Station on September 10th was picked up by: Bill Turque of the Washington Post who described me as, “Pete Tucker, another uninvited reporter who showed up anyway“; Mark Crispin Miller’s News From Underground (“What’s really happening in D.C. schools“); and Conducting the Inner Light, an informed D.C. education blog. Carol Scott of Change.org, after listening to our interview with Rev. Lynn Bergfalk on City Gates’ east of the river youth program, wrote an article and started a petition to save the program. Our extended interview with veteran Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy on D.C.’s education reform was picked up by Union City (“Linking Poverty and Educational Achievement“). We were cited in Zein El Amine’s article in Extra! (“Media’s Favorite School ‘Reformer’: D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee“). And DC Indymedia posted our recent article on the closure of Bruce Monroe Elementary School.
Thanks to you, TheFightBack.org has grown, and we’d like to continue to do so. If you haven’t already, please Friend us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and spread the word.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Pete