Matisse Bustos-Hawkes Archives - WITNESS https://www.witness.org/tag/matisse-bustos-hawkes/ Human Rights Video Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:55:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 76151064 WITNESS to Speak at Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Global Thinkers Event https://www.witness.org/witness-to-speak-at-foreign-policy-magazines-100-global-thinkers-event/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 13:00:19 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=1898107 On Tuesday, December 1, Matisse Bustos-Hawkes, WITNESS’ Associate Director of Communications and Engagement, will take part in Foreign Policy Magazine’s 2015 100 Global Thinkers event in Washington D.C. The event is a precursor to the publication of Foreign Policy’s yearly 100 Global Thinkers issue which will hit newsstands in coming weeks.

Matisse will speak on a panel titled “The Fourth Unsolvable Problem: The Future of Activism” at 2:45 P.M. She will be joined by Jim Obergefell, activist, realtor,  and IT consultant; Sonita Alizadeh, rapper and activist; Michael Faye, co-founder and executive chairman, GiveDirectly, co-founder and CEO, Segovia Technology; Robin Hammond, photographer; Andreja Pejic, supermodel and game changer; and Adejoke Tugbiyele, artist.

Follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtags #ttrends and #globatthinkers.

You can hear more from previous Global Thinkers via Foreign Policy’s free podcasts on ITunes.

 

]]> 1898107 WITNESS Around The World https://www.witness.org/witness-around-the-world-2/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:02:57 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=1583211 Our staff is always on the go, sharing resources and knowledge from Brooklyn to Turkey, South Africa to Ukraine, and everywhere in between. “WITNESS Around the World” is where you can get the latest on events and trainings and learn more about how you can get involved.

 

  • Senior Program Manager for the Middle East and Africa, Bukeni Waruzi, conducted a training for LGBTQI activists in Johannesburg, South Africa May 4-10. The training brought together 25 activists from South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Swaziland for a week-long training on advocacy, filming, storytelling and distribution for the promotion of LGBTQI rights.
  • Thursday, June 4, Program Manager Madeleine Bair will be participating in the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. The conference, that runs June 4-5, brings together  opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists, and journalists to explore the intersection of politics and technology. Madeleine will be participating on the panel, “Check It Before You Wreck It”, discussing video verification. Find out more about the conference and Madeleine’s panel here.
  • Matisse Bustos-Hawkes, Senior Communications Manager, will be participating in the Greenwich Film Festival, speaking on the panel, “Social Impact”. The conversation will explore why some social issues garner more media attention than others, and discuss the role of film and media in proliferating social issues around the globe. The panel is free and open to the public— come check it out!

 

]]> 1583211 Boing Boing Highlights WITNESS’ Archive Guide https://www.witness.org/boing-boing-highlights-witness-archive-guide/ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:23:02 +0000 https://www.witness.org/?p=2492 Boing Boing, the influential media-technology-cultural-whatever’s-clever blog, highlighted our Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video.

Matisse Bustos-Hawkes, WITNESS’ Senior Communications Manager, outlines the importance of archiving for video activists:

We’ve got a new, free resource available in Arabic, English and Spanish called the Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video. WITNESS created it after hearing from hundreds of activists and citizen journalists worldwide that preservation and future access to their media was a crucial concern. It’s been getting a lot of good feedback and next month we’re getting an award from an archive association.

All of us are creating more media than ever before, and face challenges about how to store, share and access our images, videos especially as technology and formats are ever changing. Activists face additional concerns: including the terms of use that govern the most popular of sharing sites — where their content is as risk of more frequent take-down notices; of losing their content due to lack of back up systems or due to being directly targeted by police or other forces in repressive regimes that seek to destroy possible evidence.

More citizens with the power of video to document human rights includes the need for people to safeguard their material for future justice and accountability procedures that could take years if not decades to come to fruition. Hopefully the guide is going to this purpose.

Boing Boing: How to archive your video media, an activist’s guide by WITNESS.

Learn more about WITNESS’ Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video.

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