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What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online? Government police shutting down farmer’s protests in China. A tobacco company employing under-age workers in Kazakhstan. Iranian merchants striking to protest tax increases in Tehran. WITNESS August 24, 2010
Landmark Decision – Prop 8 Ruling Thursday August 5th, 2010, was a victory day for the LGBT community. California's Prop 8 ruling was deemed unconstitutional in a landmark decision by Justice Vaughn R. Walker of the California Federal Court. The Rachel Maddow Show sums it up very well on MSNBC. WITNESS August 6, 2010
What We’re Reading + Watching, July 19-23, 2010 This week we're sharing more 'tweeted' bits of news and resources including a guide to mobile phone video journalism, a discussion about the ethics of video in the "YouTube era," an award given to our partners at HOPS in Macedonia, a new audio archive of the world's language, and a new shareable video and education campaign about how cosmetics are made, packaged and sold: Matisse Bustos Hawkes July 23, 2010
Presumed Guilty: Documentary Puts Mexican Legal System on Trial Toño Zúñiga was just your average aspiring rapper and break dancer who made a living running a small electronics repair stand. WITNESS July 7, 2010
Protecting yourself, your subjects and your human rights videos on YouTube Last week we started a blog series with YouTube, highlighting the role that online video is playing in human rights advocacy. And though activists around the world have shown how powerful YouTube can be as a tool to raise awareness of human rights violations, this kind of work opens up new risks, online and offline. WITNESS June 21, 2010
An Archivist’s Perspective on Access and Privacy The New York Times reports that earlier this month, a US District Court granted a petition by Chevron to subpoena 600 hours of footage from Crude: The Real Price of Oil. The film, by director Joe Berlinger, documents a landmark lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorean Amazon residents against the oil company for allegedly contaminating the jungle and creating a “death zone” the size of Rhode Island. Yvonne Ng May 23, 2010
Video Testimony from an Untelevised Trial Always on the look out for new and interesting uses of video in human rights campaigns, I came across this innovative use of testimony and video by the Courage Campaign. They're fighting to keep the proceedings of the legal challenge to Proposition 8, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, public. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cameras could be barred from the trial. Matisse Bustos Hawkes May 15, 2010
LGBT Rights in Africa: Uganda I'm the IT coordinator here and will occasionally blog about issues relating to tech inside a non-profit organization that uses technology all the time. I am also going to be sharing thoughts about human rights issues that are of personal import. WITNESS April 28, 2010
Google unmuzzles itself in China Google has received brickbats a-plenty for its stance in China, where, in order to be permitted to operate by the Chinese government, the search company agreed to censor particular "sensitive" search results - Tiananmen, Dalai Lama, democracy, human rights, and so on. WITNESS January 13, 2010
User-generated video & authentication: Sri Lanka In August a video showing what appeared to be the cold-blooded execution of Tamils by Sri Lankan soldiers was released by the group Democracy in Sri Lanka and aired on Channel 4 news in the UK. WITNESS October 14, 2009
Archival access: ethics, rights, obligations Access is a primary archival value, driven by many things: legal or organizational mandates, copyright, available technology and resources, a deep-seated belief that access to information is the foundation of a free and educated society, and, in fact, a right. With human rights materials the challenges are particularly acute, sometimes pitting personal safety, security and […] WITNESS October 12, 2009
Open Video Conference: follow-up I was unfortunately unable to attend the OVC conference in last month, but here's video of the session "Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities" featuring my colleagues Sam Gregory and Sameer Padania. And, from a blog post by Teague Schneiter on the Institute of Network Cultures site, with some interesting report-back. (Teague is actually interning here at WITNESS.) WITNESS July 14, 2009
Open Video Conference: human rights in an open video culture. Lots of great stuff on tap at this week's Open Video Conference (June 19-20, NYU). My WITNESS colleagues Sam Gregory and Sameer Padania will speak on the panel "Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Ethics in Video: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities:" WITNESS June 17, 2009
SAA2008: A few final notes Back from SF, to the office, first day of school, general fall craziness. I want to post just a couple of other notes re SAA before I move on to other topics. The session “Returning Displaced Archives: Legal and Ethical Perspectives” moderated by Trudy Peterson. The panelists, to whom scenarios (hypothetical and actual) were put […] WITNESS September 4, 2008
SAA2008: Meaning, Justice and John Dean I started the day with “What, Why, How? Archival Meaning in a R/Evolutionary Age” which featured three excellent papers exploring meaning, purpose and collective identity for archivists. I especially liked Scott Cline’s paper which explored what he called “archival being” the core values of which are faith, radical self-understanding, intention, and integrity; and illustrated via […] WITNESS August 29, 2008