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Lesson Plans
The Country a U.S. Corporation Left Behind
Students explore the impacts of the century-long relationship between Alcoa, an American corporation, and Suriname. They then debate the terms of Alcoa's exit from the country.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Stephanie Strasburg Takes Over @PulitzerCenter Instagram with Project in South America
Grantee Stephanie Strasburg has taken over the @PulitzerCenter Instagram account to share her work...
May 1, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
American University Students Head to Laos and Chile
International journalism and film and media arts students are among the most recently selected...
April 28, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: When a Big American Corporation Abandons Your Country
This week: what happens when a corporation abandons a country, Marine Le Penn's nationalist stance...
April 25, 2017 -
Multinational Alcoa, in a restructuring, departs struggling Suriname after 100 years. The loose ends...
![Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/4-saamaka01.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=W86HMYdU "Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")
