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04 Mar Live video, curation, and action at #Rio2016 Olympics

| WITNESS WITNESS has been working with allies in Rio at full force in the last two weeks, documenting the alternative social justice realities of the Rio Summer Olympic Games. In this blog, we highlight our work on livestream and eyewitness media curation through two related projects:

04 Mar Mobil-Eyes Us: Using Live Video and the Power of Networks for Smart Activism

| WITNESS ‘Mobil-Eyes Us’ uses the power of live video to connect you to the causes you care about, and provides meaningful ways that you can act by doing what you do best. Mobil-Eyes Us is a project currently being incubated at WITNESS that aims to combine three

04 Mar 4 tips to have co-present and active audiences in livestreams

| WITNESS By Clara Medeiros and Adriano Belisário Livestreams are one of the most engaging types of content on the Internet, and Mobil-Eyes-Us, a WITNESS initiative, builds up this content to help activists engage their audience deliberately so that they become more active, useful and “co-present” when

05 Feb Livestreaming protests in the USA

| WITNESS This tip sheet and video provide guidance on how to livestream protests safely and effectively, as well as guidance on how to grow and engage your viewers. Download tip sheet

01 Feb Introduction to Mobil-Eyes Us

| WITNESS Mobil-Eyes Us is a project of WITNESS and the WITNESS Media Lab to explore potential new approaches to livestream storytelling for action. We look at technologies, tactics and storytelling strategies to use live video to connect viewers to frontline experiences of human rights issues they

01 Feb Call-outs in livestreamings: learnings and practices

12 Dec Protected: R2R map

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20 Sep New Series Launch! Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa

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Perpetrator Video in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an in-depth look at the proliferation of eyewitness and perpetrator video in the region and explores how this content is transforming the ways human rights and accountability is reported, pursued, exercised and violated.

09 Jan Romulo’s Story: Using Video to Advocate for Immigrant Rights

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This post examines the role video played in advocating for Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez, and fighting against his deportation

09 Jan Eyes on Ice Webinar Series

| WITNESS Watch our 2-part#EyesOnICE webinar series, a collaboration with the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP). Read our follow-up blog post for more detailed responses to the webinar Q&A. Webinar #1 covers important “know your rights” and tactical information around documenting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Webinar #2 focuses on how groups are documenting and