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An arrest warrant has been issued for journalist Amy Goodman, who filmed Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
Journalist Amy Goodman recently filmed the Dakota Access Pipeline company turning dogs on protesters; now, there’s a warrant out for her arrest in Morton County, North Dakota.
“This is an unacceptable violation of freedom of the press,” Goodman said in a statement, according to Democracy Now!, the publication for which she works. “I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters.” Goodman is being charged with one offense.
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Evan Mawarire posted a video on Facebook after he struggled to raise the school fees for his children, he held the Zimbabwean flag and felt let down by his country and the government. The promise that this flag stood for and the reality on the ground could not be reconciled. His video resonated with many Zimbabweans who adopted the flag as a symbol of protest flooding social media with images of the Zimbabwean flag. The video inspired many Zimbabweans and has quickly grown to become Zimbabwe’s biggest form of protest in over a decade.
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Remembering journalist Elidio Ramos Zárate, shot and killed in June in Oaxaca, #Mexico.
(From CJR)
Remember one year ago when then-Attorney General Eric Holder supposedly tightened restrictions on the Justice Department so it could not easily conduct surveillance on journalists’ emails and phone calls? Well it turns out the Justice Department inserted a large loophole in its internal rules that allows the FBI to completely circumvent those restrictions and spy on journalists in secrecy—and with absolutely no court oversight—using National Security Letters.
And what, exactly, are the Justice Department’s rules for when they can target a journalist with a National Security Letter (NSL)? Well, according the government, that’s classified.
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A redacted page in the Justice Department’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DOIG) makes clear the government can spy on journalists with NSLs while circumventing the Attorney General’s media guidelines
RBSS is one of the only independent outlets operating inside Syria to tell the truth about life inside ISIS held territory
Ahmed Mohamed al-Mousa, a member of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. was killed today by a group of masked men in Idlib, Syria, according to the citizen journalist group, which CPJ honored last month with its 2015 International Press Freedom Award.
lostinurbanism:
Constantine Manos, South Carolina Funeral (1966)
Visit Blvck Vrchives to view Homegoing: A Time to Mourn (Grief During the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement) a visual narrative exploring the roles of black funeral directors, rituals, women, and the fight towards equality.
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By Brendan Fitzgerald for the Columbia Journalism Review
Like the victims whose stories they tell, reporters who cover rape face a powerful challenge to their credibility. A failure to withstand that challenge could silence reporters and rape survivors alike.
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PHOTO: KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN—NOOR
Teaching Photography Inside Malawi’s Prisons
Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen taught photography to juvenile prisoners
icphoto:
“There are a million photographers out here; everyone can push that button. These days, you need to care about people. We’re such a mess in the world today that I think the social documentary practice is almost as important as it was for the great photographers of the FSA.”
- Joseph Rodriguez in conversation with Pete Brook on mass incarceration and photography. Read the full interview: http://www.icp.org/interviews/interview-with-joseph-rodriguez
All images from the series Juvenile, © Joseph Rodriguez.
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PHOTO: ISMAIL FERDOUS
After Rana Plaza: Shining a Light on Survivors Through Instagram
Bangladeshi photographer Ismail Ferdous took to Instagram to tell the stories of the Rana Plaza collapse’s victims
