Following the long summer of protest against racist policing in the U.S. and beyond, we are gathering to discuss moving-image resistance practices with scholars, artists, and organizers working with community-based media activism.

When do you have the right to film the police? What are the best ways to document interactions with law enforcement in a safe and effective way? And what alternatives are there to reproducing images of violence and suffering? These and other questions will be discussed by Palika Makam from the media activism organization WITNESS; Imani Jacqueline Brown, artist, activist, and researcher with Forensic Architecture; Portia Cobb, artist, professor, and director of the Community Media Project; and Erin Gray, assistant professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies at UC Davis.

In addition, we will screen Cobb’s short experimental film “No Justice, No Peace! Young, Black, ImMEDIAte!” (1992), made in the wake of the Rodney King trial.

The discussion was recorded and can be accessed here.