Changing a world with video
[NOW with David Brancaccio: KVIE TV Sacramento, Fridays at 10pm] Last night David Brancaccio did a program on combating human rights abuses worldwide using video cameras. No, not sending out an entire news crew with armed guards and armored SUVs; this video taping was done by courageous individuals, many times amateurs or just plain and ordinary men and women, on their own in some of the most hostile situations. The program called In Your Eyes featured musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel. Famous as the lead singer of the 1970s rock group Genesis, Gabriel is now empowering people to document human rights abuses in their own backyards and bring them to the world's attention. He helped set up WITNESS , a Brooklyn-based organization that trains human rights advocates to use video cameras, provided by the group, to document abuses around the world. Their motto: "See it, film it, change it." Aung San Suu Kyi , born June 19, 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a non