Sometimes my political organizing life and my tech life intersect. Last Saturday was a prime example. We held an anti-Minutemen sidewalk protest in Hollywood at a Minutemen march.
LAPD brutally clubbed some of us, including four blows on two protestors who’d already been clubbed and were lying on the sidewalk.
Someone video’ed it. The video is on YouTube now and has been viewed over 5,000 6,000 times.
At the press conference announcing the lawsuits, our lawyer said, ‘the video speaks for itself.”
Video is a powerful medium indeed. Here’s the video.
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Bob Morris » Blog Archive » Political organizing and tech // July 17, 2006 at 6:33 pm |
[...] As blogged two posts below, we posted video to YouTube of LAPD beating people lying on the sidewalk (this was after they’d beeen clubbed to the pavement for no reason – something the video clearly shows.) The response to the video has been huge and visceral, people are outraged when they see it. [...]