Tag: solidarity
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From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that ‘seeing is believing’ and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as…
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PEN World Voices Festival: Wafaa Bilal, Emmanuel Guibert and Josep-Maria Terricabras
[Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] I’m moderating a free panel in the NYC PEN World Voices Festival at 6pm on Thursday 30th April – “Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling” – at which we’re going to be discussing new media, storytelling and human rights. We have three fascinating panellists, and I wanted to introduce you to their…
Sameer Padania 