[Imc-g8-2005] g8 video/anti-repression strategies

[Anarcho Babe]

I think it would be possible as we activists know each other well here in 
Scotland and have a good connections usually over groups and similar.

However, we also have a lack of people, so at least one particular person 
would need to come forward to take on responsibility for this task, 
coordinate a group, and also come earlier - to stay here about 4 weeks in 
advance to get to know everybody he/she would need to know, and earn their 
trust, learn to use how specific equipment and similar, arrange and do 
video training, legal training and similar.

Please please please, if you are interested come forward and be here 
veryvery soon so there can be a link up with relevant people and projects 
well in advance and then this person could work indpendently and organise 
this specific task and care for this responsibility.

However, the necessary trust doesn't fall from heaven 2 days before the G8 
and video equipment is expensive, so anybody interested in particular 
working on this task, should get in touch with me right now and come up 
here very very soon, if possible this week or next for at leaset 3 days, to 
start off liasing.

cheers Ulla



On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:35:52 +0100, yossarian <yossarian at aktivix.org> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There was a great video segment the other day on Democracy Now! in the
> US, regarding the use of Indymedia video evidence to counter doctored
> police tapes used as evidence in court against demonstrators at the
> Republican National Convention last summer.  I am wondering if we could
> do some prep work before the G8 to help ourselves later.
>
> A few ideas:
>
> a) There should be a central archive of videotape available not just to
> filmmakers but also on call for legal reasons if necessary.  Defense
> lawyers should know about the existence of this archive so they can use
> it if necessary.
>
> b)  Indymedia reporters on the street, especially videographers, are
> facing more problems - a couple of weeks ago one person from IMC-London
> was arrested for *filming an arrest*.  I think we can expect to see this
> kind of thing emerge as a police strategy, because we are a threat to
> their exercise of power on the street.  Would it be possible to
> coordinate a counter-strategy between legal people and video people?
>
> We could hand out a leaflet to all video people we can get near, saying
> that there will be something like a class action suit (I dunno if they
> have these in the UK) or just some big court / media circus (with
> lawsuits for false arrest), if the police attempt to mess with people on
> the streets for filming.  This might be a very credible deterrent to
> police harassment if we had solid contact with lawyers and civil
> liberties organizations prior to the summit, and maybe a card that we
> could hand out to non-corporate journalists (especially videographers)
> saying that they are participating in the XXINSERT SNAZZY NAME HEREXX
> initiative against police harrassment of independent media.
>
> The url for the Democracy Now! story is:
> [text]: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/14/1349256
> [video]:
> http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/april/video/dnB20050414a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=09:56 
>
>
> [audio]: http://www.archive.org/download/dn2005-0414/dn2005-0414- 
> 1_64kb.mp3
>
> Maybe if anyone is interested in this it could be mostly coordinated on
> the imc-g8-2005 list?  The legal list is closed, this probably is better
> if as many people as possible know about it...
>
> Just a thought,
> Yossarian
>
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