[IMC-Video] please stop using the term 'citizen video!'

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

OK, I don't have time to write a long post about this right now, I will 
do so later. But coming through the largest wave of street mobilizations 
in US history, which was the immigrant rights marches in the spring of 
2006, when millions of non - citizens marched for their rights to be 
treated as human beings no matter what their status in the eyes of the 
state, it really makes me angry to hear people supposedly on the left 
talk so much about 'citizen journalism.' I recognize that some people 
argue there's another conception of citizenship that isn't based on the 
nation-state, but the reality is that the dominant (hegemonic) use of 
the term refers to the rights granted individuals based on their legal 
status as recognized by a nation-state, with non-'citizens' denied those 
rights.

So, can we please, please stop using the term 'citizen journalism?' Try 
any one of the many alternatives: grassroots. people's. bottom-up. 
horizontal. decentralized. independent. social movement. indy. whatever. 
just, not 'citizen.'

thanks
schock