Video Title: (With Blogs Iphone And Macbook Suzannah B Troy Is Revolutionising Ny Politics) Video Duration: 9:24 From: astoria25 Category: News and Politics meet suzannah b. troy, artist, activist, blogger, social critic, and revolutionary. suzannah traces her family history to ludlow street on the lower east side. she was outraged after nyu destroyed st. ann's church, a historical structure dating back to 1847. she started blogging, bought an iphone, and learned how to use a macbook. and in the process, she turned her anger into activism. listen to suzannah talk about how she uses social media sites, like youtube and blogspot, to communicate important political information. her courageous videos have exposed shady crowd control activities at political debates, and she has confronted local politicians, who can generally count on getting a free p from the mainstream media. how suzannah is revolutionising politics in new york is that whenever the mainstream media failed to report stories that are important to voters, suzannah reported her own stories and posted them on her blogs and on youtube. for example, at a city council debate that took place in august 2009, suzannah used breakthrough apple iphone technology to create and post videos directly to youtube, live from the street. in this video, suzannah talks about some of the infrastructure problems of new york city, over-development, the importance of public artwork, con edison bills, the controversial 2009 new york city mayoral election, and internet activism. all video copyright 2009 and 2010 by louis flores. music is used under fair use doctrine. all respective rights ltbgt...lt bgt Tags: "Top Rated",
Video Title: (Expositor Political Forum 3 Part 5 Mp4) Video Duration: 8:26 From: MySpartaNews Category: News and Politics the third in a series of four scheduled political forums, sponsored by the expositor, was held june 24, at white county middle school, and included two mayoral candidates and four at-large candidates for city aldermen. candidates addressed questions that were gathered from several sources, including those submitted by white county residents and representatives of the democratic and republican parties, as well as from those in the audience. participating in the forum were incumbent mayor tommy pedigo and challenger jeff young, incumbent aldermen hoyte jones and bobby officer, and challenger aldermen candidates jim floyd and thor mcneil. moderator kim wood, editor of the expositor, explained a small change in the format in the forum. in previous forums, members of the audience were allowed to ask questions directly to the candidates. in this and the upcoming forum, audience questions were to be submitted in writing and given to the moderator to ask the questions over the microphone. woods stated the purpose of the change was to expedite the process, help provide more clarity to the questions being asked and to allow the questions to be heard by all in attendance. the questions posed to the candidates covered a range of topics from taxes, jobs and current infrastructure needs to future plans for the city, opinions on sparta's ability to improve tourism and thoughts on a potential metropolitan government. candidates for the road superintendent, register of deeds, school ltbgt...lt bgt Tags: "Top Favorites", City "cityrail", "city tv", "cityrail timetable", "city of toronto", "city of ottawa", "citysearch", "city and guilds", "city of calgary", "city center las vegas", City Of Sparta Mayor And Alderman Election Public Forum