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KFTC on YouTube

Posted by Arif on Thursday, 11/02/06

about a month ago, I was having a conversation with a colleague where we puzzling over what it would take for YouTube or similar services to be a tool for community organizers.

One of my thoughts was that YouTube needed some organizing related content before it would be of much interest to organizers or members of community organizing groups.

Well, the folks over at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth may have started the ball rolling by posting this video called "Why We Vote" check it out and forward it on:

Filed under Internet, Organizing, Web

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Critical Resistance has content on YouTube, both the trailer for the film being used in the Katrina Prisoner Amnesty Campaign, "I Won't Drown on that Levee", at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAVRSm6RSw and a video produced by Community In Unity Coalition, which is waging a campaign against the building of a new jail in the South Bronx. That video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpRAliuRlZM Check 'em out!
Submitted by Linda Thurston (not verified) on Thursday, 11/02/2006 - 4:44pm
Thanks Linda! This raises the question of trying to come to some agreement about tags to use so that we can all find these examples.
Submitted by Arif (not verified) on Thursday, 11/02/2006 - 4:49pm
Hum. I posted a comment about Pills, Profits, Protest and Live eXXpressions and the interwebs just ate it like a big old seamonster. Let me try again. Pills, Profits, Protest (http://www.pillsprofitsprotest.org) is a full length documentary about profiteering in the AIDS pharmaceutical industry. They released the whole movie in short segments on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=pills+profits+protest It is definitely a film that is being used as an organizing tool, thought it isn't an organizing video. Stella (a sex worker rights group in Toronto) has an organizing video called Live eXXXpressions that they've made available on YouTube: http://www.chezstella.org/stella/?q=en/follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akKzsWyjL5w
Submitted by amanda (not verified) on Friday, 11/03/2006 - 4:11pm

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