RadioSegue Weekly * Thursday, November 29, 2001
By the RadioSegue volunteers

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1) This week: "BOOM: The Sound of Eviction"
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1) THIS WEEK -- Thurs., Nov. 28: "BOOM: The Sound of Eviction"
Host: Heather Nicole

When you pick up a video camera and press "record," you aren't simply creating a document -- you're witnessing a moment for posterity, be it a family vacation or, more famously, the 1991 police beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles.

"Video activism" takes things a step further -- fusing the editorial and documentary imperatives so as to offer solutions to societal woes. The San Francisco-based nonprofit Whispered Media is a leading exponent of the form, helping produce videos like "Breaking the Bank" -- which simultaneously documented and participated in protests against the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. -- and "Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO," about the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999.

Whispered Media emerged as part of the Independent Media Center movement that coalesced around those WTO protests, and has remained highly productive since then. Their latest video, "BOOM: The Sound of Eviction," gives you a ground-level perspective on the dot-com evictions that plagued low-income and nonprofit residents of San Francisco in the late '90s. Although the Internet boom has gone bust, the aftermath of greed and heartbreak remains.

"BOOM: The Sound of Eviction"; Nov. 30-Dec. 2; Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St., San Francisco; (415) 824-3890; http://www.atasite.org