Celebrate One Web Day Sept. 22, 2007

One Web Day is like Earth Day for the Internet. The goal of the annual event is to celebrate the web and the difference it makes in our lives; and to take time to reflect on what the web could mean for the world and human kind in the future.

While it is easy to take the Web for granted, there are substantial threats to the free flow of online information all around the world. The supporters of One Web Day hope to create a global constituency that thinks of itself as responsible for the future of the Internet, so that when negative things happen (such as censorship, restricted access, or heavy-handed law enforcement control) people will act.

The second annual One Web Day is happening this September 22. The Internet Archive has created a special One Web Day Collection where anyone may upload a video to celebrate One Web Day. You may also want to upload your One Web Day video to the collections on blipTV, YouTube, and Dotsub.com with the tag “onewebday2007″.

To upload to the Archive collection, start here and select “One Web Day (Sept 22, 2007)” from the drop-down menu titled “—Pick A Collection—” before you click “Upload Files”.

Executions in Texas

Texas is scheduled to execute two death row inmates this week - John “Ash” Amador on August 29th, and Kenneth Foster on August 30th.

An Internet Archive patron has uploaded raw audio interviews with both inmates.

John Amador

• Full interview
• Excerpt
• News about the John Amador case

Kenneth Foster

• Full interview
• Spoken word excerpt
• News about the Kenneth Foster case

– Alexis

September 11 Television Archive Returns

 

 

From October 11, 2001 through 2003 the non-profit Television Archive provided access to streaming footage of news coverage from events surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Internet Archive brings back this historically significant collection presenting news coverage from six networks for the first three days following the first attack. It is made available for non-commercial research purposes only.

– Renata

Archiving the King: In Celebration of MLK Day

• The Open Mind (1957) Hugh Hefner interviews Dr. Martin Luther King and Judge Waring on the topic of the “New Negro”. Discussion topics include aggression, the Civil Rights Movement, and the American judicial system.
• Integration Report (1960) This documentary about the Civil Rights Movement shows Dr. King’s besieged church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, he is shown speaking at a march in Washington D.C.. Footage of the march and other Civil Rights speakers is also shown and spiritual music from the period is played throughout the film.
• Peace March: Thousands oppose Vietnam War (1967) This film documents anti-war demonstrations in the United States and Italy. It includes a glimpse of Dr. King leading the march in New York.
• Democracy Now (January 17, 2005) This news broadcast is entirely about MLK and features extended excerpts from his “Beyond Vietnam” speech from 1967, and his final speech (delivered the day before he died in 196 “I Have Been to the Mountaintop”. Robert Kennedy’s announcement of King’s assassination and the audience response may also be heard.
• Democracy Now (November 19, 2002) This broadcast features a rare tape of MLK speaking outside the Santa Rita jail where singer Joan Baez and her mother were being held for protesting the draft on January 14, 1968. The show has a current interview with Baez, and her music can be heard throughout the program.
• Democracy Now (January 20, 2003) Broadcast features an excerpt from King’s speech “Why I oppose the war in Vietnam,” and an interview with his son, Dexter King.
• Democracy Now (January 21, 2002) An excerpt from King’s 1967 speech on Civil Disobedience is presented after the news headlines.
• Democracy Now (January 15, 2003) Broadcast on his birthday, King can be heard outlining his opposition to the Vietnam War. The excerpt comes after the news headlines.

– Renata

Robert Altman’s early career

Robert Altman has died at 81.

He began his career working at Kansas City, Missouri’s famed industrial film factory, the Calvin Company. As one of the Archive’s knowledgeable posters, “Mr.,” states, he made a number of sponsored films before his first feature, The Delinquents.

The Magic Bond, his 1955 film for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is downloadable from the Archive. Does the first sequence remind you of a certain movie about the Korean War?

Remembering Sid Davis

Sid Davis, chronicler of childhood menace and jeopardy, has died at 90.

Sid was one of the most distinctive independent filmmakers who entered the nontheatrical film field following World War II. Throughout his career, he expressed concern for the safety and wellbeing of children and teenagers, making some 150 films (the exact total is hard to determine) that rank among the most compelling cautionary works of the 20th century. Though he was a Hollywood insider and worked as John Wayne’s stand-in, he was a self-taught filmmaker, and his films look quite unlike anyone else’s.
There are 25 of his films online at the IA.

His obituary is here and here, and a Metafilter post here.

Attack on Indymedia Journalist

On Friday October 27, independent media journalist Brad Will was killed while covering the protests in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was shot with his camera running. His final footage was uploaded to the Archive and may be seen here (note: the streaming files do not work; right-click and save to download the file). Today’s Democracy Now discuses the protest and shooting, and features a tribute to Brad, it is available as video or audio. Two videos from a vigil held for Brad in Worcester, MA were uploaded and are available here and here.

– Renata