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Dara Greenwald

Dara Greenwald is a writer, social artist, and media maker. You can check out her work at www.daragreenwald.com.

The Grassroots Video Pioneers

By Dara Greenwald

Images of street medics with home-made red crosses adorning their clothes, protest marching bands, cops in riot gear, tear gas in the streets; ideas and practices of decentralized organizations, anti-copyright, shared resources, networked communications, ecstatic experience, DIY media, pirate broadcasting, communal living, participatory culture, collective process.

The Videofreex formally posed in front of the Hunter, NY American Legion Post, 1973. Photo: Videofreex.
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JUNE 2023

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