WITNESS Workshop in Paraguay Focuses on Video and Forced Evictions

From http://www.witness.org | WITNESS conducted a 3-hour video advocacy workshop at the IV Americas Social Forum in Asunción, Paraguay, from August 11-15 2010. The training focused on the use of video in advocacy on forced evictions carried out in the name of development.

Together, workshop participants analyzed three case studies:

- The Endorois community's use of video as evidence http://hub.witness.org/rightfulplace

- The work of LICADHO in Cambodia http://hub.witness.org/en/users/licadho, helping communities at risk of eviction use video to defend their rights

- The story of how communities in Guerrero state, Mexico, used video to mobilize and organize their resistance to the La Parota dam http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/4652

Read more: http://blog.witness.org/forced-evictions-in-focus-at-the-americas-social-forum

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• forced evictions
• human rights
• Eminent domain
• WITNESS
• video
• paraquay
• training

[phnixlady]

Sounds like a great workshop. peace to you. I remember watching videos about housing challenges in Mexico, and how they just kept going back to the authorities, filling out forms, making appointments, building for themselves, protesting, getting arrested. I saw videos of citizens fighting the oil companies in South America, what spirit ! The corporations have our Gov and police and mil, don't know what we will do but the videos give us heart to go on.