Inspired by TakePart’s PSAs on voting the issues? Have you already made your Chicago 10 clip, but still have more to say to America about how you would vote, and why? Link TV’s Dear American Voter Project allows you to speak out and be heard regarding your thoughts on the coming presidential election in the form of a short video letter. Not an American citizen? Not a problem. Link TV encourages international submissions as well so that folks abroad can let Americans to know how US foreign policy affects their daily lives.

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WITNESS, the organization, which documents human rights issues and abuses through video and online technologies, and its new project, the Hub for Human Rights Media, the world’s first participatory media site empowering individuals and groups to share media and take action, are literally too cool for words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But then a video is worth a million. Nothing shows the power of video better than a… powerful video.

I already wrote about the Hub. But I would be remiss if I didn’t let readers “witness” the Hub for themselves. So instead of introducing them to you, I’d rather The Hub for Human Rights Media, introduce itself, the way it does best, through video, posted above.

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WITNESS, the legendary organization which uses video and online technologies to reveal human rights violations, is now even cooler. (I didn’t think it was possible.)

WITNESS has created The Hub a spanking new website where you can find and upload human rights-related media and then go do something about it. So check out the Hub and start searching away. Here’s a video about Kenya I found just Hubbing around.

And if you’re a filmmaker you can too and start uploading your own footage!

Pip Starr, the documentary filmmaker, activist, and nurse committed suicide late last month. Although barely noticed by the media, his death was picked up by blogs and by the San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia, which is where I came across the news. Pip described himself as someone

making documentary films in and about various activist communities for over 10 years. Most doco’s are about human and environmental issues of local, national and international significance. I believe documentary should be beautiful and entertaining as well as emotionally and intellectually stimulating.

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