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Tribals Seek Harmony
Roshan brings us a story from the Kokna tribes of Dang, Gujarat.
Web, TV and Radio
Web, TV & Radio ‘Gujarat Polls: Video Volunteers’ Community Correspondents report on elections issues from the grassoots ‘Untouchable’ No More:Activists are recording the stories of those deemed “untouchable” in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Will the project work, or is caste no longer a problem? India@65: Notes From the...
Funds for Books Embezzled
Officials in Nagpur’s education department siphon money from education funds for personal gain.
ARTICLE 17
A Campaign to End Untouchability ARTICLE 17 is Video Volunteers campaign on to urge the government to implement the laws against the practice of Untouchability. Since 2012, Community Correspondents have been documenting untouchability across the country. First, we petitioned the National Commission for Schedule Castes, (the government body that is constitutionally appointed...
Community media in Brazil – first impressions
– Jessica Maberry A mural in the favela made by local residents associated with the community arts organization CEDECA in Grajau, Sao Paulo. Political and social graffiti is everywhere in Sao Paulo, and making it keeps kids out of crime. Almost undoubtedly, Brazil is the country in the world with...
Video Volunteers launches in Brazil
-Jessica Mayberry How can the disadvantaged earn a living from their creativity? Why are nearly all the “base of the pyramid” micro-businesses supported by microcredit agencies based on manual labor, or super-local activities like driving a rickshaw or running a small shop? Since much of the music we love today,...
Exercises in community video entrepreneurship
– Jessica Mayberry My partner Stalin and I are seated in the video laboratory of VCU.br in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with VV’s nine Video Fellows. We’re conducting a workshop in an area that is new for us – and which appears to be new also for the whole field of...
Making it Happen Locally: interview with Jessica Mayberry
Posted by Morgan Currie, VV Volunteer. I volunteered with VV for three months this year, February to April, primarily videotaping VV’s work in Goa, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. I witnessed first-hand VV’s innovative training models, in particular the Community Video Units, and also saw the stirrings of new programs. In May,...