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13 November 2007
Peter Gabriel's "Hub"
Witness, the non-profit led by Peter Gabriel (watch his TED2006 talk) has launched “The Hub”, an online platform allowing anyone to use camcorders, cell phones and cameras to upload, share, and discuss human rights-related footage, as well as organize advocacy campaigns. A few months ago, announcing the project, Peter had described it as “a sort of YouTube + Wikipedia for human rights” intended to make human right abuses “not forgotten nor discarded”.
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Bruno Giussani
Nov 15 2007Tina: this is probably what Peter Gabriel would answer: “it seems that when there is video and photo cameras it is much harder for the powerful to deny the story and for people’s experience to be forgotten”. That’s why he founded WITNESS and that’s why they’re now launching this new Hub.
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Phil Thomas
Sep 18 2008Peter Gabriel does great work! No doubt about it.. we need more people of affirmitive action like him here in Australia.
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But how can we really we stop the abuses of the powerful?