Virtual 2020 - Digital Storytelling
Virtual
May 2020 –October 2020
Digital Storytelling
From May through October 2020, The Praxis Project convened a small cohort of 20 community partners from across the United States to participate in a virtual, long-term Learning Circle over zoom, with a specific focus to learn, develop, workshop, and produce digital video stories that are for, by, and of us on mobile devices. Participants discussed the power of storytelling for social justice and how to reframe stories to center our people. They engaged in learning pre-production, production, and post-production techniques through mixed-methods education and were asked to use their mobile devices to capture video. This learning circle focused on the following topics:
Introduction & The Importance of Telling Our Stories
The Power of Storytelling for Social Justice
Reframing Stories to Center Our People
Crafting Stories (Pre-Production)
Building Stories (Pre-Production & Production)
Bringing Stories to Life: (Post-Production)
Videos produced through this Learning Circles by community advocates and organizers, range widely in topic, length, and composition. They explore the inequities created by lack of equitable access to resources, the prison industrial complex, and police violence, and the deep impact that these inequities has on the health of our communities. They manifest the beauty within our cultures and traditions, and the role that storytelling can play in community healing and transformation.
This learning circle was led by staff at The Praxis Project with T/TA support from the Global Action Project and StoryngChange.
View the Videos
World Class for Whom?
World Class Education for Whom? provides a window into the inequities of the largest school system in the state of Georgia: Gwinnett County Public Schools. While the system has won awards for its innovations and merit, that positive experience has not been extended to the county's clusters that consist of majority people of color.
Justice for Philly
Providence Youth Student Movement
On August 26, 2019 - Channara “Philly" Pheap was murdered by Officer Dylan Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee. Officer Williams was not charged but instead placed on paid administrative leave and continues to serve in the Knoxville Police Department. Yet, the Pheap family alongside with the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) continues to fight for justice. A year later the Pheap family announced a new lawsuit with the Knoxville County Sheriff’s Department. Now they need our support and help, whether it be through shares or donations. The people need to know that we still want #JusticeForPhilly, follow the link at the end of our video to the official GoFundMe.
Digital Land Acknowledgement
Martinez Street Women’s Center
This Digital Land Remembrance Project serves to acknowledge the nations of aboriginal people who violently lost their lives and land in occupied San Antonio, Texas known as Yanaguana by the Coahuilteca People, the name derives from the Esto’k Gna/Carrizo Comecrudo language of Somi Se’k territory, the unceded State Texas. Our liberation as BIQTPOC is bounded by our relationship to the land, it’s people and our relationship to our relatives whose ancestors have lost their lives, sacred sites, and languages as a result of the missionization of San Antonio.
To learn more about the current issues and stories of Indigenous people in Yanaguana, Somi’sek Territory Martinez Street Women’s Center will be releasing Exist 2 Resist: Stories of Somi’sek, as part of of our KMSW 101.5 Podcast for the Martinez Street Women’s Center Radio Project in 2021. For updates follow us on social media: @mswomenscenter. Website: www.mswomenscenter.org
Land Rememberance Statement Written by: Laura Yohualtlahuiz Rios-Ramirez of Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin under the guidance of Tribal Chairman Juan Mancias Carrizo Comecrudo/Esto’k Gna Tribe of Texas.
Special Thanks to Praxis Project & Martinez Street Women’s Center
Do More
The members of the Texas Housers Houser Academy speak about the concepts of neighborhoods and community are important and what inspired them to do more to preserve them.
SCOPE Community
With the sudden shift to virtual organizing and programming, the SCOPE office is void of member presence, aura and life. Just like our members, we miss gathering at our office and with the warm messages from long-time SCOPE members we can push through until we meet in person again. For now, we hope this video can give us strength and continue our virtual engagement.
Mi sueño americano
The pandemic has made evident the profound inequality of internet access in the Rio Grande Valley. Colonia residents, especially, face slow connection speeds, long load times, low access to modern devices, and few Wi-Fi hotspots. It is clear that internet access is a right. The American Dream of our young ones and their families is at stake.
FFLIC 19th anniversary celebration
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children
FFLIC has been working to dismantle/reform the youth prison system since 2003 3 when passing progressive legislation. Since that time there have many some changes but despite having a roadmap, our state continues to fail our children. Our video looks at how families continue to suffer.
Video is Forthcoming