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The Rodney King Video: 20 Years Later Exactly 20 years have passed since the beating of Rodney King by the LAPD was captured by George Holliday, a bystander, on a hand-held video camera. Millions around the world saw the footage. This incident was the impetus for the creation of WITNESS. WITNESS March 3, 2011
Thousands At Risk of Losing Their Homes in Accra, Ghana This week, WITNESS, and other land and housing rights organizations, signed a public statement demanding a stop to the planned forced eviction of thousands in Ghana’s capital city Accra. The signature campaign was organized here at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal. WITNESS February 10, 2011
My year in review… It was only a little over a year ago that I joined WITNESS. I was freelancing and one of the assignments I had was working with Matisse, our Communications Manager, to help produce web pages and the e-newsletter for the organization. WITNESS December 21, 2010
Human Rights Discussed at the ICSR Peace and Security Summit Earlier this month, I attended a summit held by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR). The Peace and Security Summit brought together a great number of policymakers, diplomats, senior officials and experts from across the globe to explore the issue of peace and security in contemporary society. WITNESS July 27, 2010
WITNESS’ Commitment to the Power of Networks One of the main decisions WITNESS made in our recent strategic review was to work more with, and learn more from networks where the cumulative efforts of using video at local, regional, and international levels can create tremendous change. Sam Gregory June 15, 2010
Thoughts on archives “fitting in”, and processing the Rainlake donation. I have had the pleasure of interning in the WITNESS Media Archive for the past semester. I chose this internship because I hoped to put my Masters in Human Rights Studies and my Masters in Library Science to work in the video archive. WITNESS June 3, 2010
Video Advocacy’s Role in the Unprecedented Success of an Indigenous Group at the African Union in Feb 2010 In this brief video (produced by Ellie Magnuson), my colleague Bukeni Waruzi, Program Manager for Africa and the Middle East, gives a spirited overview of the background, timeline, and strategy of our partnership with CEMIRIDE, a Kenyan organization representing the Endorois community in their long legal struggle to return to their indigenous lands around Lake Bogoria. Martin Tzanev May 26, 2010
Mixing Business and Pleasure – Fundraising Among Friends As my birthday approached last week I became increasingly uneasy. It had nothing to do with my age as you might suspect. Let me explain. For the last two years WITNESS has launched a spring drive fundraising appeal. Our staff, board and close supporters reach out to their personal and professional networks to ask them to donate to WITNESS. WITNESS May 25, 2010
Introducing the New WITNESS Blog Welcome to the new WITNESS blog! As an organization, we've been blogging for about five years now, but now you can find it all in one place. Matisse Bustos Hawkes May 12, 2010
On the Road with Peter Gabriel’s “Scratch My Back” Tour Our colleague Becky, who coordinates our Creative Advocacy work (that basically means getting creative types like musicians, actors, directors, artists involved with our human rights campaigns), was on the road earlier this month with our founder Peter Gabriel during his North American "Scratch My Back" tour. Matisse Bustos Hawkes May 10, 2010
World Day For Audiovisual Heritage: Human Rights Archives Today, October 27, is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, established by UNESCO in 2007 to highlight the importance of film, video, television, radio and all other forms of audiovisual media to global culture, history, and communication; and to call attention to the vulnerability of this media, due to neglect, deterioration, a lack of human or […] WITNESS October 27, 2008
Two new posts about video advocacy Two of my fine colleagues have been interviewed on other blogs recently about WITNESS’ model of video advocacy. The first is an interview withProgram Director, Sam Gregory, conducted by Henry Jenkins the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program on his personal blog after meeting Sam at the recent DIY Video Summit hosted at […] Matisse Bustos Hawkes April 1, 2008
On the Seesmic rooftop with Loic Le Meur… A brief dispatch from San Francisco, where yesterday I spent some quality time with Loic Le Meur, Cathy Brookes and VinVin at Seesmic. As well as a quickfire exchange with users on Seesmic – some of whom are already on the Hub – Loic and I had a quick chat on Seesmic’s rooftop: More soon […] WITNESS March 27, 2008
We're in the Netxplorateur 100! Congratulations to our friends at Psiphon, who have won the Grand Prize at the Forum Netxplorateur in Paris – deserved recognition for a very exciting tool… What we didn’t know until Psiphon told us is that the Hub was selected too as one of the Netxplorateur 100 – “100 Net trailblazers creating new digital practices […] WITNESS March 5, 2008
DIY video and human rights I’ve just arrived back in New York after three thought-provoking days at the 24/7, DIY Video Summit, a great event put together by Mimi Ito and a team of organizers and curators at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC. The panels and discussions streamed live in Second Life and were webcast, and they should […] Sam Gregory February 13, 2008