This is a project of interviews and photographs of media workers in the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter M. The people profiled work for social change in and through the media. The profiles are being published on the website of the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. You can click below to see any of the profiles.
Chapter 1: Tracy Rosenberg. Rosenberg manages Media Alliance, a non-profit that fights for the rights of media workers and consumers of mass media. Media Alliance has a rich history, and is at the cutting edge of media activism.
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Chapter 2: Bradley. Bradley is a volunteer with the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. He is also a photographer who documents struggles in Santa Cruz with a keen eye. He tells about going to Oaxaca, Mexico during the radical uprising there. Read More
Chapter 3: Bill Hackwell. Hackwell is a photographer and activist who lives in Oakland. He is an organizer for the ANSWER Coalition. He is well known in Cuba, where he has traveled many times in solidarity and put on several important photo shows. He talks about starting out as a military photographer in Viet Nam, where his politics crystallized. Read More
Chapter 4: Favianna Rodriguez. Rodriguez is a successful artist and organizer of other artists. Along with producing hundreds of silkscreen prints, she built a design business in Oakland that caters to organizations for social change, Tumis. She is also an online activist pushing for change for the Latino community. Read More
Chapter 5: Josh Wolf. Wolf is a videographer who got caught up in a legal case when he filmed a demonstration where a police officer was seriously injured. He refused to turn his tape over to authorities, and spent many months in prison on a contempt citation from a federal grand jury. For his courageous stand he was the recipient of several national journalism awards. Read More
Chapter 6: Greg Landau. Landau is a record and film music producer living in San Francisco. He learned filmmaking from his father, Saul Landau, while traveling throughout Latin America. Greg spent most of the 1980s in Nicaragua, where he was baptized by fire working for the Ministry of Culture in the Sandinista government. He relates the experiences that formed the cultural perspective that informs his career today. Read More