Watch, While Seated

The man behind this, probably the most famous political ad ever, died a couple weeks ago.

Schwartz was an expert sound gatherer and media analyst. Here’s an MP3 of an excellent radio show explaining his legacy far beyond the below. (Strangely, this is all that a YouTube search on his name yielded…)

Gets better with mulitple viewings

Lest we forget:

More context for dubhead’s Chad post.

These aid workers are with a grassroots campaign called Stop Genocide Now, and they chronicled their full visit to Chad, and I think got a YouTube question on Darfur into an early Dem debate. All the videos are here. Check them out, they make up a pretty amazing document.

Aid workers caught at the Meridian hotel in N’Djamena, Chad as rebels overun the city.

The fighting gets closer and closer in subsequent videos until the rebels start firing on the hotel.

part 2

part 3

Zimbabwean opposition leader gives one of the more inspired answers to the first “official” YouTube question of the World Economic Forum in Davos (more here):

What one thing do you think that countries, companies, or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?