Hub Intern's Media

Chi Too - Paradise Forest Documentation (Part 2 of 2)

Hub Intern — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:33:14 -0700

This documentary features a project at Lake Murray, Papua New Guinea which allows the indigenous people to sustainably use the rainforst on their territories and produce eco timber.

Daniel Bekele - Speech at the CIVICUS World Assembly

Hub Intern — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:55:40 -0700

This speech of Daniel Bekele was filmed by a fellow participant at the CIVICUS World Assembly, 18-21 June 2008, in Glasgow, Scotland.
The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.
Daniel Bekele joined ActionAid Ethiopia as head of policy, research and advocacy in 2004. He had previously worked as a lawyer and practiced throughout the Ethiopian court system, playing an active role in the Ethiopian Bar Association and the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association.
He worked on reform in the area of gender discriminatory law, human rights and women's rights education, defending women in difficult circumstances.
He was involved in the preparation of alternative draft legislation for the governance and regulation of NGOs in Ethiopia and has contributed to a wide range of international publications and research papers.
He graduated from Addis Ababa University with a law degree in 1989. In 2001, he obtained a Masters degree in Development Studies and two years later, as a Chevening Scholar at Oxford University in the UK, won a Master's degree in legal research. He is currently registered for a PhD in international law at Oxford.
In ActionAid, Daniel has worked on the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) in Ethiopia. He was a member of the executive committee of an NGO network monitoring the contested parliamentary elections of 15 May 2005.
Daniel was arrested on November 1st 2005 and accused of outrage against the Constitution and the constitutional order.
On March 28th, 2008, Daniel Bekele was released from prison.

Daniel Hazen - Stop Force

Hub Intern — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:39:33 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Daniel Hazen is a survivor of psychiatry. In addition to his part-time contract as PsychRights' Northeast Coordinator, Daniel is currently active working as a human rights activist, advocate, organizer, nationally and internationally. He is also active on the board of directors of the U.S. Human Rights Network, and the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Inc. Daniel brings special knowledge, training, background and experience advocating and organizing for human rights and ending the horrific actions of forced psychiatric interventions and human rights violations in both the psychiatric and prison industries.

Charlotte Bunch - Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University

Hub Intern — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:50:53 -0700

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.

The policy and advocacy program encompasses CWGL's efforts to integrate gender and women's human rights into the work of local, national, regional and international institutions. This program informs and mobilizes advocates for women's human rights around specific events and builds linkages among them to enhance their capacity to influence policy making. The Center, working in collaboration with women leaders and NGOs around the world, helped secure international policy commitments that clearly state "women rights are human rights." With these policy benchmarks in place, the Center has turned its energy toward implementation of this concept and holding policy making bodies accountable to their promises to the world's women. Core activities in this program area include UN Monitoring and Advocacy and the coordination of International Mobilization Campaigns.

Lecture about the work of "Brave New Films" (long version, 21min)

Hub Intern — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:28:33 -0700

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films are at the forefront of the battle to create a just America and we want you to join us. Using cutting-edge new internet video campaigns, Brave New Films has created a quick-strike capability that challenges corporate media with the truth and empowers political action nationwide.
Watch a brief compilation of our campaigns

From delegitimizing Fox News as a news source and Impeach Gonzales to Real exposés about conservative candidates and a War on Greed, our groundbreaking online political campaigns are exploding the old model of grassroots politics. Using YouTube, bloggers, mobile phones, and strategic partnerships with national networks and local activists, we are reaching millions and getting results.

Gerald Lenoir - Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Hub Intern — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:51:47 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.
Gerald Lenoir discusses his work with The Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
The mission of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration is to engage African Americans and other communities in a dialogue that leads to actions that challenge U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it.
BAJI’s goal is to develop a core group of African Americans who are prepared to actively support immigrant rights and to build coalitions with immigrant communities and immigrant rights organizations to further the mutual cause of economic and social justice for all.
BAJI supports an immigration policy with the following features:
•A fair path to legalization and citizenship for undocumented immigrants
•No criminalization of undocumented workers immigrants or their families, friends and service providers
•Due process, access to the courts and meaningful judicial review for immigrants
•No mass deportations, indefinite detentions or expansion of mandatory detentions of undocumented immigrants
•The strengthening and enforcement of labor law protections for all workers, native and foreign born
•No use of local or state government agencies in the enforcement of immigration laws

Katrina Anderson - Center for Reproductive Rights

Hub Intern — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:29:06 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Katrina Anderson discusses her work with The Center for Reproductive Rights.

CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: MISSION AND VISION
MISSION
The Center for Reproductive Rights uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.
VISION
Reproductive freedom lies at the heart of the promise of human dignity, self-determination and equality embodied in both the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Center works toward the time when that promise is enshrined in law in the United States and throughout the world. We envision a world in which all women are free to decide whether and when to have children; where all women have access to the best reproductive health care available; where all women can exercise their choices without coercion. More simply put, we envision a world where all women participate with full dignity as equal members of society.

Salavador Reza - Toma Tierra

Hub Intern — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:26:04 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

Monica Garcia - Southwest Workers Union

Hub Intern — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:02:44 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.

To empower people of color, workers, youth and grassroots communities through education, local leadership development, training, hands-on organizing and mobilizing. We strive to build membership based organizations, coalitions and networks to gain power to achieve environmentally safe and sustainable communties, jobs and fair wages with dignity and justice.

James Thindwa - Jobs with Justice

Hub Intern — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:53:23 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008. James Thindwa discusses the work of "Jobs with Justice".

Jobs with Justice engages workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live. JwJ was founded in 1987 with the vision of lifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. We believe in long-term multi-issue coalition building , grassroots base-building and organizing and strategic militant action as the foundation for building a grassroots movement, and we believe that by engaging a broad community of allies, we can win bigger victories. We reach working people through the organizations that represent them—unions, congregations, community organizations—and directly as JwJ activists. Nearly 100,000 people have signed the Jobs with Justice pledge to Be There at least five times a year for someone else’s struggle as well as their own.

In more than 40 cities in 25 states across the country, we are building coalitions of labor, religious, student and community organizations that are committed to each other for the long haul. Our campaigns make a difference for workers facing hostile bosses, knowing they are not alone in their struggle. At JwJ, solidarity is a two-way street: when communities come out for unions, they can expect unions to come out for them. Union victories are crucial, but they are not enough. We must maintain a strong commitment that our coalitions will weigh in on community fights.
In 2005, Jobs with Justice coalitions worked on 197 workplace justice campaigns affecting more than 243,400 workers . JwJ Coalitions supported more than 135,000 workers in 107 organizing and first contract campaigns, we denounced employer harassment of immigrant workers, and we resisted cost-shifting of health care benefits. Local coalitions also worked on 169 social justice campaigns on critical issues, supporting community organizations’ efforts to secure affordable housing and defend public services, and leading proactive campaigns that can only be won when we fight together – such as economic development policies, living wage ordinances, and statewide fights to win health care for all.