Picture The Homeless: Campaigning for the Reformation of Disorderly Conduct Laws from Zachary Delamater on Vimeo.

Disorderly Conduct Video Update

Last Tuesday members of our group sat in on a civil rights meeting at Picture the Homeless. We were planing on filming the meeting and getting interviews, but our memory card ran out of space after 25 minutes of filming. The next day, on Wednesday, our entire group went down to Zuccotti Park to meet with with members of PTH who were marching in the rally and possible film some interviews. After initially not being able to find PTH members, after a couple of hours Zach and I spotted PTH members marching with their banner. We were able to collect some footage of them marching, and also collect 2 short interviews. Members of our group are planning on going back to PTH this Tuesday to collect more footage and conduct interviews.

Disorderly Conduct Update

Our group has now increased to 5 members, with Lynlea and Ashely joining our group. For this project our group decided it would be a good idea if we could help to raise the production value of their current civil rights video, as it’s quality is low, and create a new video. The video will contain a general overview of how disorderly conduct works to criminalize innocent people, and it will also contain some interview we do with currently or formerly homeless PTH members about their experiences with the enforcement of the disorderly conduct law. I met with Sam at Picture the Homeless last Tuesday and sat in on one of their weekly civil rights meetings. I talked with Sam about our idea after the meeting and he is open to it, although he wants us to show him the video as we are in the process of making it so that the he can make sure that we are representing the organization properly. Our group also thought it would be a good idea to incorporate a social media aspect into this project. I noticed that Picture the Homeless did not have their own Facebook page set up. I think it would be a good idea for our group to assist PTH in setting up a Facebook page and starting a Facebook campaign about homeless civil rights. PTH could post information such as where meetings or rallies are being held on their FB page, and also post the video we make. Facebook could definitely be a good organization tool for PCH. I sent an email to Sam about this FB idea, but have not heard back yet. The next step for our group is going to sitting in on on a civil rights meeting, introducing our group and what we are trying to accomplish, and see if anybody there is willing to speak in our video. We are planning on doing this either this coming or the following Tuesday.