Chicago’s LiP magazine has an aricle offering a pretty complete overview of the recent growth of video activism. The author identifies the Indymedia Center movement as an impetus, providing a world-wide cooperative network that formerly atomized video groups and collectives can utilize to link up and distribute their works.
I do small-scale video production for a living, and have been dabbling in video for years. I sure wish I had more time to be getting out there, capturing footage and creating some pieces. I also wish someone could donate a video camera to our local Independent Media Center so that I could at least start teaching folks to get out there and do it themselves–believe it or not, I’ve never actually owned a camcorder. (hint, hint… e-mail me if you actually have a camcorder to donate to a kick-ass Indymedia Center).
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