[www-features] PROPOSAL: Indymedia Newsreal Needs Your Videos

[Bradley Stuart]

hi www-features (CC Steev of Indymedia Newsreal),

Here is a proposal for a new feature on indymedia.org

Indymedia Newsreal Needs Your Videos
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUsWorkPad

The HTML is on the the WorkPad link above.

-bradley

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TITLE: Indymedia Newsreal Needs Your Videos

HEADER: USA: INDEPENDENT MEDIA

AUTHOR: Indymedia Newsreal

IMAGE: http://indybay.org/uploads/2007/09/02/newsreal.jpg

ABSTRACT:

The Indymedia Newsreal is a monthly TV program that has been underway  
since 2000 and now needs your assistance. Each episode of the show  
covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to  
address critical issues locally and globally. This coverage is  
undertaken by independent videographers from around the U.S. and the  
world, who produce and send in segments. An editor then puts together  
contributed segments every month to create a thirty-minute program.

Newsreal is viewable every month in a variety of ways: via satellite  
to a potential 11 million subscribers on Free Speech TV, downloadable  
on the internet at a variety of locations, shown locally at public  
screenings by subscribers, and shown on various local cable access  
stations around the United States.

Recent episodes of Newsreal have covered a variety of issues,  
including anti-war protests, border activism, police brutality, labor  
struggles, cruelty to animals, the G8, media consolidation,  
endangered species, and much more, from a variety of communities  
including Seattle, Berlin, New York, Oaxaca, Arizona, California,  
Ohio, New Orleans, Portland, and many more.

September 2007 Indymedia Newsreal

Download recent episodes (these .mp4 files are over 100 MB):  
September | August | July | June | May | April

BODY:

Despite this incredible variety of content, participation in and  
awareness of the project has been steadily declining over the last  
couple of years. For the project to continue, the Newsreal must get  
more participation, and invites you to contribute your short video  
segments of local struggles in your community. The video segments  
must be in english or have english subtitles. We also encourage you  
to spread the word to any videoactivists you know about this  
opportunity to get video work out to a larger audience. Additionally,  
groups and individuals are invited to subscribe to Newsreal and show  
the program in their areas.

We accept contributions of 30 seconds to 12 minutes in length, mailed  
on mini-DV tape, DVD, or as DV files on DVD-R data disc. For more  
details about producing and submitting segments, or any other  
questions about Newsreal, send email to newsreal at indymedia.org.