Comments for New Media Advocacy http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org Launching Legal Advocacy into the 21st Century Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on N-MAP Voices: Vanessa Gigliotti on Equal Access to Health Care by Gwenelda http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2011/03/24/n-map-voices-vanessa-gigliotti-on-equal-access-to-health-care/#comment-669 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:04:58 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=340#comment-669 This is way better than a brick & mortar etslabishment.

]]> Comment on Merging the Worlds of Legal Advocacy and New Media by Amelia http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2009/08/12/merging-the-worlds-of-legal-advocacy-and-new-media/#comment-628 Tue, 24 May 2011 19:25:45 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=12#comment-628 That’s really tinkhnig out of the box. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Segregated Healthcare in New York City by N-MAP Voices: Vanessa Gigliotti on Equal Access to Health Care « New Media Advocacy http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2010/08/16/segregated-healthcare-in-new-york-city/#comment-464 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:15:17 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=290#comment-464 [...] Access to Health Care By awelcher Meet Vanessa Gigliotti.  We interviewed Vanessa through our work with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest on the issue of segregated access to health care in New York.  Vanessa is a stage 4 colon cancer [...]

]]> Comment on N-Map Voices: Felix Morka on Human Rights by Abby http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2011/02/02/n-map-voices-felix-morka-on-human-rights/#comment-420 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:43:28 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=337#comment-420 Awesome interview. Morka is right on about the misconception that people don’t know their rights and are powerless. Powerful support for new media and video for enforcing human rights. Great work! Thanks!

]]> Comment on Segregated Healthcare in New York City by The Big Picture – Winning “Unwinnable” Cases and Plugging Holes in the Legal System « New Media Advocacy http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2010/08/16/segregated-healthcare-in-new-york-city/#comment-407 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:15:57 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=290#comment-407 [...] mind, the inequalities highlighted in Waiting for Superman closely mirror those being addressed by N-Map’s current work with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Bronx Health Reach in relation to access to [...]

]]> Comment on A Warm Welcome to N-Map’s New Lawyer by awelcher http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2011/01/26/a-warm-welcome-to-n-maps-new-lawyer/#comment-394 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:17:06 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=323#comment-394 Hi All!

I’m really looking forward to contributing to this blog, particularly if we can get a dialogue going in the comments on some of the more unclear/difficult legal issues I will discuss. My first piece, to be posted soon, is more of a meta-look at the role that video can play in securing justice, but I hope to dive into more detailed legal analysis soon!

]]> Comment on Crude Case Decided in the Second Circuit by A Warm Welcome to N-Map’s New Lawyer « New Media Advocacy http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2011/01/26/crude-case-decided-in-the-second-circuit/#comment-375 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:37:49 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=320#comment-375 [...] New Media Advocacy Launching Legal Advocacy into the 21st Century « Crude Case Decided in the Second Circuit [...]

]]> Comment on Conditions in Port au Prince by Charles Berkowitz http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2010/03/31/conditions-in-port-au-prince/#comment-367 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:31:16 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=229#comment-367 In response to Here Now’s message:
I am the filmmaker who stood in these camps in March of 2010 and worked with NMAP to produce this video for the U.N. Donors Meeting in 2010. You seem to have a very narrow perspective on what was happening in Haiti around that time. I first arrived as a paramedic working in Cite Soleil and throughout PAP on Jan. 16th. My group NYC Medics stayed for two weeks and dispatched 13 teams throughout the region over the next several months.
Although I can tell you that there were slight improvements made to the Haitian infrastructure in regards to medical care, food, water, and shelter, when I returned in March, the conditions had transmogrified from rubble to IDP camps festering with no sanitation, rotting food, crime, and little to no water. What you see on this video isn’t a result of me or my crew cherry picking what we felt would make compelling footage but a reflection of the Haitian sentiment at the time. I went there to document the Haitian perspective which, as it turns out, is much different that what foreigners would like to believe it is.
I give you my utmost praise for the work you have done- Haiti needs all it can get. Groups such as MSF, Global Medic, and PIH all have done remarkable work. But please don’t let yourself come under the conclusion that this was enough. One would have to be blind to stand were we stood and think otherwise.
I worked very closely with a remarkable PIH MD, fluent in Creole, who visited these camps with me. The answers you hear from Haitians in the video are real. To be honest, the conditions in nearly every camp we visited were deplorable. They resembled the slum conditions in Kibera, Kenya.
My intention was to challenge all of us to do better. Where did the donated money go? Why are Red Cross red tickets being sold on the black market? Why are landslides of sewage running through the camps when it begins to rain? Why are the insides of nearly every shelter swamped with water? I challenge you to stay in one of those IDP camps for a week and emerge with the same opinion you have now.

]]> Comment on The Importance of New Media Advocacy Tactics: The Crude Case by Second Circuit Rules on the Crude Case « New Media Advocacy http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2010/06/18/the-importance-of-new-media-advocacy-tactics-the-crude-case/#comment-249 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:16:23 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=259#comment-249 [...] stand by my analysis of the district court’s original opinion — be very very careful if you are going to [...]

]]> Comment on The Importance of New Media Advocacy Tactics: The Crude Case by Aracely Tancer http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/2010/06/18/the-importance-of-new-media-advocacy-tactics-the-crude-case/#comment-207 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:58:16 +0000 http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/?p=259#comment-207 nice article hopefully i learned from it.

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