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Peter Gabriel on VH1's "Big Morning Buzz Live"
November 11, 2011 - VH1's "Big Morning Buzz Live"VH1 host Carrie Keagan interviews Peter about his new album "New Blood" and his work with WITNESS on hosting our seventh annual Focus For Change Benefit Dinner & Concert which featured a performance by David Crosy and Graham Nash.
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WITNESS Guest Post Featured on PBS' MediaShift Blog
November 9, 2011 - Read the post»Sam Gregory blogs about some main ideas from our "Cameras Everywhere" initiative.
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Featured Guest Post on Beth Kanter's Blog
October 26, 2011 - Read the blog»Sam Gregory guest blogs on Beth's blog about "The Promise and Peril of New Communications Technology" which we posted during the first annual Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference.
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Read and Watch: Our Workshop at the Mobility Shifts Conference
October 16, 2011 - LVPOV BlogA participant at the Mobility Shifts Conference workshop where we introduced our new Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit, shares details about the workshop on her blog.
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WITNESS Ally, EngageMedia Launches New Video Guide
October 13, 2011 - Engaged MediaEngageMedia has realeased The Secure My Video Guide, which contributes "to best practice tactics ensuring the publication and access to social justice video is secure under volatile conditions." They link to our resources advancing safety and security for those using video and quote Sam Gregory in their blog post introducing the guide.
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AlJazeera's "The Stream" Features WITNESS Partner Video on Forced Evictions
October 11, 2011 - AlJazeera - The StreamAlJazeera's program "The Stream" features a lengthy conversation on forced evictions happening in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the lead up to the country hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. It features video clips from our partners in Rio.
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Ushahidi's Blog Spotlights Forced Evictions
October 3, 2011 - Ushahidi BlogRyan Schlief, our program manager co-leading our Forced Evictions campaign, guest blogs for Ushahidi on World Habitat Day - bringing attention to a Crowdmap tracking instances of forced evictions worldwide.
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Issue of Child Soldiers Remains a Challenges, Says Bukeni Waruzi
October 1, 2011 - International Criminal Court NewsletterBukeni Waruzi, our Program Manager for Africa and the Middle East, writes about the end of the Thomas Diyalo Lubanga trial at the International Criminal Court in the September issue of "Africa Update," a newsletter of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC). Bukeni recently wrote about the trial on our blog.
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Financial Times Covers Cameras Everywhere Report
September 21, 2011 - Financial TimesThe article "Technology users of the world unite" asks whether access to the Internet is a human right and discusses some recommendations of our "Cameras Everywhere" Report. Please note that this article is available in full to FT subscribers only.
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On Trend Central: A Case of Hidden Identity
September 16, 2011 - TrendCentral.comTrendCentral.com mentions our ObscuraCam Android application in "A flood of new sites and apps support online anonymity."
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