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Mother launched 31 years ago to deception, by raising tough questions when other voices Jones interns and fellows provide a diverse national it covers two years in Mother have been silent, we have written history together. have gone on to prominent audience with investigative Jones’ (and the planet’s) history. We will leave it to others, though, to write the book. positions in journalism at the journalism and thoughtful, We’ve taken this occasion, The other reason this annual report is different is that it New York Times, Newsweek, progressive analysis of critical first, to look back at 30 years of ultimately looks to the future. Whatever we’ve achieved Time, The Los Angeles issues. Paid circulation for extraordinary journalism from Times, CBS News, Reuters, Mother Jones magazine is in the past has been a warm-up for helping address the National Public Radio, and 230,000. the pages of Mother Jones magazine — every page of crises the world now faces. 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Thirty years ago, Adam Hochschild, Paul Jacobs, Richard Parker, —and as independent sources have a hard time filling the gap, and the other founders of Mother Jones had an idea for a new the deceptions go unchallenged, and meaningful responses to kind of independent, progressive magazine that (as Adam has real threats become all the more difficult. written) had a “passion for justice,” exposed the “great power The opportunity ahead wielders of our time,” and was “well-written,” “attractive to the There’s more to this story, though. eye,” and built on “careful business planning” to boot. Turned off by trends toward superficial and infotainment news, Fast forward to today, and the need for this kind of journalism people are hungry for substantive and credible sources of news—for hasn’t diminished one iota. We see people searching for ways to places they can go to get the real story. New audiences are emerging. have a vibrant, public, and fact-based discussion about new direc- And the very model of “news” itself is changing, becoming interac- tions for our country and the world. They are looking for vigorous tive, community-building, and empowering. There is huge potential media committed to the principles of an open society. for connecting quality reporting with previously unseen levels of citi- This is Mother Jones’ mission. We stand with one foot in the zen engagement — if, that is, those of us who believe in those values American tradition of courageous, independent investigative don’t let the Internet’s enormous promise slip through our fingers. journalism, and the other in the legacy of smart, effective, and But good reporting, whether it’s exposing scandal or probing progressive social change. While our values inspire our choice of deeply into complex issues, is irreducibly important for our jobs as investigative topics, as professional journalists we are committed citizens. It informs our thinking, not just this morning or this elec- to the highest standards of fairness, accuracy, and integrity. tion, but for a decade or a lifetime. Two Challenges More than three decades after the first issue of Mother Jones hit the streets, we’re ready to invest in the next generation for Mother Political life today is dominated by out-of-control spin and BS. Jones, a new kind of independent journalism organization. In bitterly partisan legislative battles and elections, truth, sci- We see Mother Jones as a powerful independent news orga- ence, and facts have been made incidental, valuable only when nization, broader than any one medium. That identifies those they provide tactical advantage. The result too often has been a stories where energetic reporting can shift how elites and the frightening disconnect between political agendas and the larger public understand an issue, changing minds. That makes smart problems facing the country and world—war, poverty, and ecologi- use of strategy, technology, and networks to bring important cal crises, to name but three. journalism to people’s attention. That calls politics and the Compounding this is a media establishment that is, to a frighten- media back to what is real and urgent in the world. ing extent, missing in action. We’ve been taught that a “free press” We call it Mother Jones 2.0. has a central role to play in confronting and correcting political per- fidy, yet that role is being written out of the script by corporate and Our goal political pressures on for-profit news organizations. And while there Our goal is to raise $3.75 million for investments in reporting, expan- are plenty of progressive and independent websites that do a great sion of our online operations, strategic communications, and smart job at framing, spinning, and echoing each other on the news of business ideas. the day, reportorial depth is a weakness in the lineup of “pro- You can help support this major step forward by making a spe- gressive media.” So as the traditional journalism of the Fourth cial gift for investments in expansion, innovation, and growth. Estate dissipates — as reporting staffs are cut back, fluff is sub- For more information, please contact Associate Publisher Steve stituted for news, and unchecked assertions proliferate online Katz at 415.321.1700 or via email at [email protected].

4 5 Michael Scherer Feature Stories Published in 2006 Feature Stories Published in 2005 Make Your Taxes Disappear! Sasha Abramsky H. Bruce Franklin Michael Scherer Just Try Voting Here Net Losses Christopher Anderson The Side Effects of Truth When My Light Is Gar Alperovitz McKenzie Funk Almost Gone Michael Scherer Another World Is Possible The Man Who Has Been Scrimmage on the to America Emily Bazelon Border Photographs by Penny From Bagram to Abu De Los Santos & Text by Sara Shipley Hiles & Ghraib Lauren Slater Charles Bowden Marina Walker Guevara Who Holds the Clicker? Vince Beiser Born Into Cellblocks Cleaning Up at Home, Ex- porting Pollution Abroad A Guilty Man John Sugg Charles Bowden A Nation Under God Patrick Brown Exodus Jack Hitt The McCain (et al.) The Business of Andrew Testa Oliver Broudy Mutiny Poaching Sea Change Revenge of the Nerds Photo Essay Sara Catania James B. Twitchell Scott Carrier by Jan Van Ijken The Counselor Jesus Christ’s Superflock In a Brothel Atop Street 63 Gary Greenberg Bill McKibben More Equal Than Others Sara Catania The Condemned Climate of Denial Rob Waters Scott Carrier Alyssa Katz Death Row Conversion Medicating Aliah Rock the Junta Gary Greenberg Chris Mooney Prime Suspect Frederick Clarkson Respectable Reefer Some Like It Hot Julia Whitty Sara Catania Bill McKibben Expanding Universe Accounting Coup A Is for Afro Karen Houppert James Nachtwey When CEOS Talk About Barry Yeoman Marla Cone Professing Faith Ghost Children of Big Amy Cortese Going Green, Are They Dozens of Words for Mango The Fall of a True How One Captain of Susan Jacoby Just Thinking About Snow, None for Pollution Believer Industry Changed Course Original Intent Randall Patterson Greenbacks? Sara Corbett Home Sour Home Tim Dickinson & Olivier Jobard Kenneth Miller The Asthma Trap Jonathan Stein Scorched Earth Adam Piore The Midas Touch Lie by Lie: Chronicle Daniel Duane A Higher Frequency Jim Morris & Frank Sacrificial Ram Michael Kazin of a War Foretold The Party That Never Kurt Pitzer Koughan Robert Dreyfuss Paul Fusco Ends In the Garden of Waiting to Happen The Three Conversions Coming Home Armageddon Liza Mundy Garret Keizer of Walter B. Jones Ross Gelbspan Left, Right, and Wrong Michael Reynolds Souls on Ice Robert Dreyfuss Snowed Rendering Unto God Adam L. Penenberg Garret Keizer Cold War, Holy Warrior Todd Gitlin Left Alone Greg Sargent Is Google Evil? Robert Dreyfuss A Gathering Swarm The Ricochet Michael Pollan Alan Light Next We Take Tehran Jennifer Gonnerman Long Road Home Mark Schapiro No Bar Code Daniel Duane The Unforgiven The Middleman James Ridgeway Peter Maass Straight Outta Boston David Goodman A Touch of Crude Sweet Subpoena The Ohio Insurgency John Ritter Margaret Ebrahim Douglas McGray The Bible Bench Life on the Inside Jack Fairweather Heroes in Error

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Publishers Circle Public Freedom Fund of Mark A. Robillard Robert Klausner Kathleen Brodine Bud and Mimi Frankel Lois Joseph Marjorie Minot $10,000 + the Fidelity Charitable John A. Simmons Flora Lazar and Lee Michael Buckles Peter Frankel and Marilyn Katz Mary Mitsui Gift Fund 05Anonymous (2) 06Kevin D. Simmons Greenhouse 05Peter K. Buckley Tracy Poe 06Steve Katz and Rachelle Robert A. Moeser Quixote Foundation Janis Adams and John Jennifer and Ted Stanley Matt Loschen Scott and Mavis Buginas Richard Freemon Averbach Lois Mongan Abby Rockefeller Lyons Sunflower Foundation Al Meyerhoff Robert Burns, MD Adrianne Furniss T. F. Kelley Harle G. Montgomery The Roddick Foundation Charles Ainslie Charlotte Von Stein Fund Mark North Diane Campbell Nicole Ainslie Galipeau Joseph and Lou Anne Maura Morey Rotasa Foundation Kellman The Arca Foundation of the Fidelity Charitable Sara Paretsky Elaine Capen Mary Gama Joyce Moss Schumann Center for Gift Fund Eugene Kettner Marjorie Craig Benton Richard and Hinda Nancy and Andrew E. Audrey and Paul Gaynor Mourning Dove Media and Democracy Janet A. Boyle Robert Weissbourd Rosenthal Foundation Carlson Wayne Gersh Michael Kieschnick Foundation The Ted Snowdon Jane W. Butcher Alicia and Mark Wittink Keith M. Rudman Steve and Midge Veva J. Gibbard James Klutznick Marc A. Musick and Mary Foundation The Colombe Foundation Bill and Abby Schmelling Carstensen Dave A. Gifford Thomas B. Knoedler Rose Philip Straus Leadership Gifts Society Cheryl Forté Fund of the Julia M. 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The Rothkopf Family Catherine Tislar Jacquelin Apsler and Mr. S. G. Bridges Jr. Robert Collison William Ellis Helen L. Goldstein Maxine Jewett Charitable Foundation C. Wagenvoord Jr. Robert Apsler Harriet B. Brittain The Community Sallyanne Ericksen Fern Goodman Jewish Community 05Rustum and Della Roy Kevin Wand 06Kathie Arnold Jerome Brookman 0505Foundation- Atlanta Ali Erikenoglu 0606Mary Goodman Endowment Fund Russ Rymer Philip F. Warner John F. Auch William Brosius Fred Consorti Donald Erskine Shari Gore Barbara Johnson Joseph Sabbatino Debbie and Greg Weeter Ruth Ayers Virginia C. Browne Susannah Convery Patrick Ervin William S. Greer Howard L. Jones Lowell Sachnoff Gayle Weinberg Barbara Baker Julie Buckles W. T. Coram Ignacio Estrada Joyce Griswold J. and M. Jones Bettylu Saltzman Bernice Weissbourd Bank of America Jack Buktenica Russell Corin Hervey R. Everitt Dr. Augusta H. Gross and Jean Jurow Matching Gifts Program Herb and Marion Sandler Nancy and Christian Darryl Bullington Sandra Corlett Ronald Fahl Mr. Leslie B. Samuels Ann Katz Miriam Barberena Susan Sarandon Werner William R. Bunge Robert Crane Richard Farrell Aharon Grossbard Donna Katzin and Alan Allen Barry Artschuler John Scanlan Jim and Mary White Cindy Burton Andrew Crowley W. John Faust Jerome Grossman M. Barstad Stephen Kaufman P. B. Schechter Tony and Clare White Ray H. Burton Peggy Cull Jane Fike Richard Haas Michael Bartanen Margaret Kavounas Steve Schild Arthur Whitney Karl Buscemi Kate Culver Kenneth Fischer Connie Hammond Herb Bartling Charles Keil Jay Schindler Ms. Margo Wicks Andrew Bushko Jo Anna Dale Stanley Fitzpatrick Shannon Hardiman P. L. Bayless Jack Keller Ph.D. David Schultz Johnson and Widdifield Sara Byers Judith Davidson Dr. Joan Flanigan Robert Harrison Charitable Foundation George Beard David J. Kelly Schwab Fund for Richard Byrne Christine D. Davis John Foley Michael Hart of the Fidelity Charitable Charitable Giving J. G. Begg Lynn Davis Carol Hartman Gary Kern Gift Fund George Caine Beverly O. Ford Lucy and Matthew Moog Suzanne I. Behr R. S. Davis Michelle Harvey R. S. Kiewit Leslie Wilbur Patricia Caldwell The Ford Foundation Joan Shapiro and James Arne Beltz Stewart Davis Matching Gift Fund Georgette Hauser Katharine King Winky Foundation Douglas Callaghan Shapiro Foundation Gil Bender Ben Kirk Lawrence Campbell John Degazzaldi Mark Foreman Dr. David Hayes Brigid Shea Guy Wolf Gwinneth Berexa Rose Demoro Dennis Fortin C. L. Hazer H. Kitson Gordon Younger L. E. Campbell Mr. William Shields Rudolf A. Bergmann Rhoda E. Kittelsen Gary Caplan Giovanna Deveny Richard Foy Erik Henry Stephen M. Silberstein John Yuille David Berner Yolanda Diaz Elizabeth Franks Jo Herr Stuart Klugman Foundation Anaïs Zoë Scott Carlson Erik Birkerts and Alison Steve Kohn Patrick Casey Chris B. Dickey Molly J. Franks Richard and Beverly Richard Simmonds Ranney Muckrakers $250 - $479 Gordon Diebel Lyn Frasier Hester J. R. Koteras William Singer Peter Casillo David W. Bishop M.D. Svend Hestoft Roger Kovach Anonymous (1) Michael Cate Mike Dixon Patricia Friebert Sheila Smith Robert Blizard Angela Alexeas William Dodd Jack Gatrost M. Heydon Shri Krishan William Hayden Smith Matt Challacombe Jack Block Nancy Heyser Elise Kroeber Judith Allen Jeff Chanton Patricia Dougherty Jack Gauger Samuel G. Solitt Dr. Harold and Ruth Adolph Almquist Donn Douglass Carol Gault Theodore Hiatt Charles A. Kromer Margaret Spaulding Blumenstein Vicki Cheikes Alonovo.com McLane Downing Judith and Malcolm Lynn Hilty Ester Labay Jesse Spurgeon George T. Bogert Louis Cinquino The Ames Family Felix DuBreuil Gaynor Sabina Hirshman H. J. Langdon Donald M. Stewart Berniece Borge Robert Clarke Richard Ames Caroline Duell Mary Geiger Sharlene Hodges Dick Laroche Ellen Ruth Stone-Belic David Botello Douglas Clary Oakes and Louise Ames Suzanne Dunbar John Geil Allison Holtz Mark Larson Cynthia Stone-Raskin Linda S. Boyd Gary Clift Robert Anderson Hugh Durkan Aaron Gibson Leland Hopkins Mary Larson Diana Stork Holly Brady Bridget Clifton Alix Ankele Jack Edelman Robert Gilbert Charles Hovis Karl Leal Fred Strickhouser G. C. Brafford M. and E. Cohen Michael and Barbara Jon Edwards and Terri Gladden Carole Hubbs Margot Diaz Learned Jim Struve and Jeff Bell Donna Branch-Gilby Vera Cohen Arnold Nancy Fox Kenneth Goertz M.D. Max Hunt Franklin Lee David N. Taylor Katie Brenner Paulette Cole Phyllis Elliott Ronald Goldman Joel Jensen Stephen Lee Mark Colie

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Eileen Lefort Edith Helen Monsees PiperJaffray Foundation The Susan Sarandon Janice Tazelaar Karen L. Lew Floyd Moore Julia Pitner Charitable Foundation Judy Thompson The Mary Anonymous (2) 05Michael A. Lheureux Tifani Moot 06Richard Plattner John Schroeder 0505Walter Thompson 0606Harriet S. Barlow Richard Lightman Mary Beth Moran Vijay Poduri Roy Schweyer Robert Thomsen Harris Jones Gene Birmingham John Likeness C. Moraski Murray Potter Rhonda M. Scott Margaret Titus Legacy Joan Catherine Braun Robert Lohman Alene Moris Richard Powell Sheryn Scott Patricia Trainor Bobby Brown Larry Lomax and Stacy Mosher Jean A. Powers William Scott Michael Tuttle Society Jane W. Butcher Barbara Wendt Maureen Mudron Connie Purcell Philip Semas Robert O. Tyler Steve and Midge Diane Lookman Dimity Mueller Lynn Rabin Juliet K. Sharrock Solveiga Unger Carstensen Daniel Lopez Matthew Mullane Margaret Rawlins Robert and Nancy Helen Hill Updike E. A. Chivington Sheets In 1975 we named Mother Jones mag- Marlin Lowry James Mullins John Ray William R. Volavka Paul Colebrook Denise Shepherd Thomas Lucas Michael E. Murphy RealNetworks Ruth H. Walker azine after Mary Harris Jones, a great Eva Dienel William P. Sherman Alexandra Lutz Camillo Musumeci Foundation Bobbie Walton American orator, organizer, hellraiser, and Geneva Folsom & Amy Silverberg Lisa Folsom-Ernst Michael Lynch Robert Myers William Reed Jane Walton heroine. Mother Jones battled corporate Barbara L. Simmons Cheryl Forté Glenn Lyons Shirin Nash Jeff Reilich David Warden Michael Simpson elites and politicians, went to jail repeat- Helen J. Honeck Tracy Macarthur Rachel Neufeld David Reyno Clark Ward T. and G. Slavik edly for organizing workers, and con- Marjorie Jasper John MacNeille Marlene Debrey-Nowak Gayle Richardson Kurt Warmbier Julius Slazinski Cal Joy Kerry Madigan and Edwin J. Nowak Mike Rifen Cynthia Warner verted tens of thousands of Americans Sergei Smirnoff Alice Lazerowitz Scott Marcus Marion Obera Carol J. Rigmark Kate Watt to the labor movement. A long-time John Smith Holger A. Lerche Ann Markin Alfred E. and Laurie M. Jan Rinehart Bruce Weertman champion of laws to end child labor, O’Brien Betsy Snyder Elizabeth Marcus Martha Martin RMF Foundation Jan Wells Patricia T. O’Connor Marsha Soffer she continued as a union organizer and Beverly & Bob Noun Laura Masoner Allen Roberts Dolores Welty Brent Olson Carol Sonnenschein agitator into her nineties. At the height Sally O’Connell Marilyn Mason Stephen Roberts Gerald White Robert O’Neill John Soucek Hilary E. Perkins Jeffrey Mayersohn Anne Robinson Dennis W. Whitfield of her influence, a strike-busting pros- Isabelle C. Osborne Justin Southwick Goldwina Nelson Carl Mays Hadley Roff Lawrence Willey ecutor called Mother Jones “the most Glen Osterhout Bruce Spangler Phillips Ted Mays Stanley D. Ross Andrea Williams dangerous woman in America.” Her fear- Hubbard Page Jean Stanfield Christina Platt Kelly McClelland Michael D. Rounds James Wingard less and passionate leadership inspired Thomas E. Helen McDermid Richard Parsons Joseph Rouse Bruce D. Stark Theodore and Gertrude Rosenbaum Patrick McGann, Jr. Walter Partos Jan Rubin Greg Stikeleather Winsberg us to found Mother Jones magazine for Lois Rowley Peter McNabb Giovanna Passmann Daniel Rutenberg Elizabeth and Ojars Nina Winston her. Mary Harris Jones is a reminder that Stikis Judith S. Van Schaack Linda Meyer Jerome Pavlin Mark and Barbara Lauress Wise we all have the capacity to inspire, the Michael Stoner Rose Volkman Caryle B. Miller C. Pawley Safranek Helen Wise Lois M. Sturm passion to change, and the courage to Elizabeth A. Wood Janice L. Miller Edgar Peara Samuel Salem Russ Witney Marilyn Ruth Dudine Tom Penny Cathy Salser Sheila Sullivan lead. The Mary Harris Jones Legacy Society Robert Mittenbuhler Rosanne Wohlman Woodruff & Arthur Roselyne Swig Don Mix Richard Perl Anne Samonds Ray Wooten honors those who have included Mother Edson Woodruff Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alice Moffett E. Blake Peterson Rebecca Sandretto Amy Yenkin Jones in their estate plans. Talmage Stan Moldoff Nancy Peterson Deborah Santana Ira Yurdin Gilbert Tauck Richard and Alice Pierson 12 13 Statement of Activities for the Years Ended December 31, 2005, and December 31, 2006

Assets Change in net assets (deficit) (366,439) 405,808 Beginning net assets (deficit) (1,819,993) (2,186,432) Current assets 2005 2006 Ending net assets (deficit) $(2,186,432) $(1,780,624) Cash and cash equivalents $323,315 $537,059 Accounts receivable 387,944 674,278 Contributions receivable 124,529 134,661 Prepaid expenses 245,559 202,639 Total current assets 1,081,347 1,548,637 Fixed assets (net of depreciation) 205,339 186,123 Total revenues and supporT Other assets 23,277 24,371 2005 2006 Total assets $1,309,963 $1,759,131 Grants and contributions $4,949,125 $5,323,780 Membership 2,583,493 2,048,299 Single issue sales 410,837 409,032 Liabilities and net assets List rentals 414,615 427,980 27,696 22,117 Current liabilities 2005 2006 Royalties Advertising 1,117,050 1,392,602 Line of credit $100,000 $200,000 Other 26,091 49,686 Accounts payable 737,999 964,744 Accrued expenses 656,320 518,769 Total revenues and support 9,528,907 9,673,496 Current portion of deferred subscription revenue 927,656 757,861 Total current liabilities 2,421,975 2,441,374 Expenses Deferred rent 83,796 132,070 Enterprise activities 2005 2006 Deferred subscription Membership 2,093,863 1,625,317 revenue, net 990,624 966,311 Outreach 571,424 438,540 Research and editorial 2,631,087 2,568,500 Total liabilities 3,496,395 3,539,755 Journal production & distribution 1,530,546 1,250,917 Internet — MotherJones.com 806,990 899,217 The Media Consortium — 171,473 Net assets (deficit) Total enterprise activities 7,633,910 6,953,964 Unrestricted 2005 2006 Supporting services Operating (3,058,898) (2,460,665) Development 1,196,064 1,167,857 Board designated 104,036 - Advertising sales 751,059 877,740 Total unrestricted deficit (2,954,862) (2,460,665) General and administrative 314,313 268,127 Temporarily restricted 768,430 680,041 Total supporting services 2,261,436 2,313,724 Net assets (deficit) (2,186,432) (1,780,624) Total expenses 9,895,346 9,267,688 Total liabilities and net assets (deficit) $1,309,963 $1,759,131 Net revenue $(366,439) $405,808

14 15 2005-2006 Board of Directors Jane Butcher Beverly Noun Adam Hochschild Anita Roddick Emeritus Board Boulder, Colorado Boulder, Colorado San Francisco, California Arundel, England 05 Co-chair Secretary & Treasurer Clara Jeffery Russ Rymer Peter Barnes Rabbi John Rosove Christina Platt Harriet Barlow San Francisco, California San Francisco, California Marjorie Craig Benton Marlene Saritzky Berkeley, California Minneapolis, Minnesota Vice President Vice President (until July Co-chair Monika Bauerlein Emma Logan 2006) Russell Budd Chara Schreyer Treasurer (until April 2006) San Francisco, California San Francisco, California Steve Silberstein Dr. Price Cobbs Steve Silberstein Rob McKay Vice President Staff Representative (until (until July 2006) Geoff Cowan Jeri Smith-Fornara San Francisco, California Sara Frankel January 2006) Belvedere, California Ronald Dellums Julia Stasch Co-chair (until December New York, New York Kevin Medford John Simmons 2005) Christina Desser Rose Styron 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