Video as an Organizing Tool: Lessons from the Field

Submitted by jenniferwager on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:00pm
Short Description: 

This panel brings together activists from some of NYC’s most innovative community organizations which have pioneered the use of video as a tool for affecting social change and mobilizing their constituencies. Panelists will show examples of their work and distribution strategies from community access TV to film festivals and social networking sites.

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Representative from Self-Advocacy Association of NYS (TBD)
Presenter One Info: 

The Self-Advocacy Association of NYS is an organization for and led by people with the challenge of a disability to assure the civil rights and responsibilities that include the opportunities and choices of equal citizenship.

Presenter Two Name: 
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment (TBD)
Presenter Two Info: 

FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment. FREE! is a women-led, grassroots collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, empowering, and mobilizing ourselves to create viable community alternatives to, and impact public policy around the destructive, profit-driven prison industry.

Presenter Three Name: 
Esperanza del Barrio (TBD)
Presenter Three Info: 

Esperanza del Barrio is a membership-led community organization based in East Harlem that assists the self-empowerment of low-income Latina immigrants and their families through grassroots organizing, political/legal education, and leadership development.

Presenter Four Name: 
Ivettza Sanchez, MNN (Moderator)
Presenter Four Info: 

Ivettza Sanchez, who has worked in MNN's Community Media Department for more than four years. In that capacity she teaches video production and post-production classes to Manhattan community groups. She is also one of the pioneers of the videoblogging movement, in particular bringing media justice themes to the videoblogging community. Contact her at Ivettza@MNN.org

Presenting organization: 
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Center for Digital Democracy, Name.Space and WiFi-NY, Common Cause