Eli Kimaro’s talk from TEDxSeattle is now online: Why The World Needs Your Story
Jen Marlowe: Brazil’s Men of the Sea
The fifth video in Jen Marlowe‘s video series about human rights vio9lations in Brazil is about AHOMAR, an organization trying to prevent pollution of Guanabara Bay.
Deize: the making of a human rights defender in Brazil
Jen Marlowe’s newest video: Deize Carvalho, a human rights defender I met in the Cantagalo favela in Rio, tells the story of how her teenaged son Adreu was murdered by the police, and how that tragedy transformed her into the activist agaisnt police brutality that she is today.
Brazil: Occupy Camera
Part 3 of a 7 part video series about Brazil created by Jen Marlowe. Protests erupted in Brazil last summer over a host of interrelated social issues, and continue, with a focus on the World Cup. The protestors have been at risk of police violence, as well as the citizen-journalists who have covered the protests …
Brazel: The Guarani Struggle
Jen Marlowe has released Part 2 of a seven part video series about injustice in Brazil during the World Cup. “A look at the struggle of the indigenous Guarani community in the Southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso du Sol, who are desperately trying to reclaim their tribal lands from big agro-business–and being brutally targeted …
Loung Ung adds YouTube channel with new videos
Author and activist Loung Ung launched a new YouTube channel today, featuring a about her recent film Girl Rising, news coverage, and clips of her speaking.
Socheata Poeuv: New video
Check out this great interview with Socheata Poeuv where she talks about the revelation of a family secret, and how that led her to create her non-profit, Khmer Legacies, an organization that encourages young Cambodian-Americans to interview their relatives about the Khmer Rouge regime: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/socheata-poeuv/?post_type=speaker-videos
New speaker videos: Dr. Terrence Roberts
Two new videos have come in of Dr. Terrence Roberts, one of the Little Rock Nine, at University of North Carolina Pembroke: one hour long lecture, and one very interesting fifteen minute interview where he talks about why he volunteered to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, AR in 1957, what his parents thought …
New lecture video: Socheata Poeuv at NWTC
Socheata Poeuv, director of the documentary New Year Baby and founder of the non-profit Khmer Legacies talks with students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College about ‘What Does it Take to Heal?’: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/socheata-poeuv/?post_type=speaker-videos