C.J. Chivers using Pinterest for arms identification – brilliant.
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Interview with Tyler Hicks on Lens Blog
Fighting Back with Portraits
Mexican Art Project Puts Faces on Crime’s Toll – NYTimes.com.
31K Portraits for Peace project
Another organization fighting back > El Grito Más Fuerte, an activist collective drawn from Mexico’s film, theater and communication industries.
Egyptian Women Protest Military Abuse
Today I got a email from the Center for Media at NYU and was so struck by this photo – i had to track it down and found this link. Definitely must include in next iteration of reverb.
Thousands Of Egyptian Women Protest Military Abuse
[Sept 6, 2014: clicked the link above to buzzfeed and it is dead which led me to do more websearching and make a new post]
An estimated 10,000 Egyptian women marched in Cairo yesterday to protest the way police have been treating them. Anyone who says all Muslim women (a vast majority of Egyptians are Muslim) are repressed should see these pictures.
(AP / Amr Nabil)
world is watching
Inspired (again) by Nicholas Kristoff article = this one about Ryan Boyette and his citizen journalism project earsandeysnuba.org. It hasn’t launched yet but looking around led me to other witness projects.
Satellite Sentinel Project: George Clooney initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) while on an October 2010 trip to Southern Sudan with Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast. SSP combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with Google’s Map Maker technology to deter the resumption of war between North and South Sudan. The project provides an early warning system to deter full-scale civil war between Northern and Southern Sudan and to promote greater accountability for mass atrocities by focusing world attention and generating rapid responses on human rights and human security concerns.
Rami al-Sayed’s YouTube channel – videos up to the moment of his death in Syria. Video of a Dr. with his dead body
Syria via Al Jazeera English youtube
One News Crowdsourcing Platform
I’ll be adding more to this.
I HAVE A DREAM
In honor in MLK day 2012>
The Complete 1963 Speech aDuring The March On Washington
via “I HAVE A DREAM” – Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – YouTube.
Stephen Colbert my hero
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Stephen Colbert’s me Reporters (11.28.11)
CNN lays off 50 staff members, claiming that iReport has made their jobs redundant, and Stephen gets in on the uncompensated future of news at the me Reporters 6700
Free Ai Weiwei
Free Ai Weiwei is an information hub on news and events related to the detention of Chinese artist/architect/social commentator, Ai Weiwei
Tate Modern protest remembers China’s missing dissidents | World news | The Observer
Tate Modern protest remembers China’s missing dissidents
Tate Modern protest calls for release of missing Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Pictures of sunflower seeds bearing names of 50 of the detained or ‘disappeared’ laid on grass outside gallery.
#feb17voices Libya
Feb 17 voices reaching into Libya, tweeting and relaying Libyan voices in real time.
via Audioboo / Feb 17 voices feb17voices.
More info: On The Media, 2.27.2011
Getting stories out.
Digitally Incorrect – Ricardo Dominguez
Digitally Incorrect – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Ricardo Dominguez’s provocations: art or crimes?
October 3, 2010 [great article on Ricardo, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, etc]
more on Ricardo’s work and b.a.n.g. lab on the blog for Art & Resistance in Chiapas I co-taught this past summer.