Dear Tracey, It would be amazing if we could digitize that material and get it online to share with the world. This could also free your cupboard :) While those with internet access, especially broadband, have been able to share video files via the net for years, this year (2005/2006) has seen a number of important developments in the ease of use of video online. Just a few of these: Space for people to host activist videos, for free, forever, has been provided by archive.org. Several groups are partnering with archive: Indymedia Video Distribution Network: http://video.indymedia.org OurMedia: http://www.ourmedia.org There are also some projects for systematic peer to peer sharing of activist video. P2P can enable people with spotty, low-bandwidth connections to obtain video material, because it chops up the file into many little peices and downloads slowly in the background while you do other things online. It requires a little bit of training and then, getting in the habit of starting it up when you access the net. For example see http://indytorrents.org/ Other free and open source tools that emerged in the last year that help with independent video distribution: DTV: http://participatoryculture.org/ FIreAnt: http://fireant.tv/ In addition, there are now more 'user rated' video content sites: VideoBomb: http://www.videobomb.org A final interesting example is Al Gore's Current TV, which is a satellite station that takes about 30% of its content directly from user submissions. What doesn't seem to exist yet (someone tell me if I'm wrong) is an activist-oriented project that combines the ease of use of VideoBomb, with the historical and activist focus of archive.org, together with a coherent understanding that not everyone has access to broadband and so tries to organize submission/distribution at the local level via low power TV and community screenings, etc. All the elements are pretty much ready, though. peace sasha Tracey Naughton wrote: > Adilson and all > > What an interesting reunion. I was also at the Videazimut meeting in > Sao Paolo along with many other names that still pop up in media > activist circles. These include Dirk Konig, sadly no longer with us. > > FYI I also have a large collection of VHS material that was sent in > for the selection process for the last Videazimut meeting, the final > one in South Africa. It is a great record of alternate and struggle > video. > > It will remain around as long as I have cupboard space for it. > > regards > > Tracey > > > > > > > Tracey Naughton > NYAKA > Communication for Development Consultant > 201 Somerset Hall > 239 Oxford Road > Illovo 2196 > Johannesburg > South Africa > > landline & fax: +27 (0) 11 880 5030 > cell / mobile: +27 (0) 82 821 1771 > skype: tracey_naughton > email: [log in to unmask] > > > >