Waves of Change

Enjoy these excerpts from an interview with Jonathan Lawson, Executive Director of Reclaim the Media. This video is part of the sixth episode of the media literacy series called "Critical Focus."

 January 30, 2009 — This is Port Hood. This video was submitted to the Lieutenant Governor's Community Spirit Awards 2009.

Kenyan youth set up a community recording studio for a neighborhood outside of Nairobi.

Written in the Brazil constitution is the principle that land must be productive. The Landless Reform Movement bases its actions on this principle.
The movement identifies land that is not used productively or has not had taxes paid on it or was acquired by dubious or unlawful means.
The Landless Workers Movement then occupies the land and makes its case to the government that the title of the land should pass to those who will develop the land to benefit people.

Global Girls in Soweto, South Africa prepare to train as journalists to cover the FIFA 2010 World Cup.

World Social Forum 2009 Highlights Belem:

Recorded as a message to the Free the Media Conference organized in NYC.

The blogosphere has been growing slowly but steadily the past decade, slightly struggling to find its voice until the 2009 political crisis. The sudden precipitation of events that provoked high demand for frequent updates provided a unique set up for the budding blogosphere to assert their potential, despite the evident challenges.

The past events have been thoroughly documented so let us focus on the consequence of the crisis on citizen journalists and conversely the impact of citizen media on the evolution of the crisis.

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