STATUS UPDATE PENN Program on Documentaries & the Law Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable on "Preparing to Protest" On Friday, October 18th, the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law will be hosting an all-day Roundtable entitled “Preparing to Protest: Direct Action, the Arts of Protest and Media Impact.” The Save-the-Date notice is attached. The program will be divided into roughly five segments: I. We’ll start with a brief overview that offers some perspective on the impact of digital visual media on protests around the world. II. We’ll consider how activists have heightened the visual impact of their protests through the arts of protest. III. We’ll consider techniques for capturing and disseminating images of protest using cameras of various kinds including cellphones which participants will be urged to bring with them. IV. There is a large field across from the Law School where we will stage some kind of real or mock demonstration that the Roundtable participants will be able to photograph. (This will likely coincide with the lunch break.) V. We’ll conclude with a consideration of the ethics of capturing and disseminating images of a protest (security, privacy, exploitation, informed consent, organizing versus agitation, etc.) (i.e., where image ethics meets law and legal ethics). Representatives from WITNESS (the Human Rights Video Advocacy Organization) and the Media Mobilizing Project will be participating as will the following: Marwan Kraidy, an Annenberg professor who is an expert on global communications and Arab media and politics Rebecca MacKinnon, an affiliate with the Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies, a blogger and a co-founder of Global Voices Online Mark Read, a teacher in NYU’s Gallatin School who focuses on the impact of media on social change movements, a contributor to Beautiful Trouble and an Occupy activist associated with “The Illuminator” light displays Todd Wolfson, a prof of journalism and media studies at Rutgers and a co-founder of the Media Mobilizing Project Zein Nakhoda, a filmmaker and artist who has done a film on the Blair Mountain protest we’ll be showing (https://vimeo/wzn) and a former student collaborator of the Global Nonviolent Action Database Larry Krasner, Esq. (tentative), a Philadelphia defense lawyer who represented a defendant whose encounter with police was captured on cellphone footage distributed on YouTube (youtube/watch?v=vQXh-v3IZ4c) Nadine Bloch, a nonviolent activist, political organizer, puppeteer and contributor to Beautiful Trouble Harvey Finkle, a documentary filmmaker whose work on direct action protests can be found in the PhillyCAM series “Class Warfare in Philadelphia” Everyone is of course invited. Registration is available online at https://law.upenn.edu/live/events/46693-visual-legal-advocacy-roundtable.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:36:34 +0000
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