- Mobil-Eyes Us: Using Live Video and the Power of Networks for Smart Activism How can we use the power of live video to connect people to the causes they care about, & provide immediate & meaningful ways to act by using their skills?
- Independent Media: Maintaining the Pressure for Justice in Ayotzinapa Sept. 26th marks the 1 year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 Mexican student teachers. We look at the role video has played in demanding justice.
- Video Advocacy at a Crossroads: 2012’s Dangers & 2013’s Solutions Video is increasingly at the nexus of opportunity and danger for human rights activists. Video helps activists to document, confront, circumvent, and lobby against oppressive authorities—but it also allows those authorities to stalk them. Here's what we think will happen in 2013.
- Cameras, Livestreaming and Activism at Occupy Wall Street Walking through the city of tents at Liberty Plaza, home of Occupy Wall Street, it is immediately striking how many cameras there are floating about. Pointing this out, filmmaker and member of the media working group, who goes by the name of Fix, jokes with me that it sometimes feels like Liberty Plaza is an “occupied surveillance machine.”
- Video Dispatch from All Out, a New Global LGBT Campaign At no other time have global LGBT issues been making headline news so frequently—from the continuing controversy over the proposed “Anti-Gay” bill in Uganda, to the marriage equality law recently passed in Argentina, to the historic repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the United States. The struggle for LGBT equality is the civil rights movement of our time—a movement that is increasingly global.
- Your Ideas on Human Rights and Free Expression on YouTube This is the fourth in an occasional blog series about human rights video, written by Steve Grove, Head of News & Politics at YouTube, and Sameer Padania, former Hub Manager at WITNESS, cross-posted from YouTube’s blog. As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.
