The Tennessee House of Representatives. (Photo via capitol.tn.gov)
The League of Women Voters of Knoxville/Knox County and the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists are holding a “Legislative Webinar” on Saturday at 10 a.m. to hear lawmakers talk about key issues that will be taken up by the Tennessee General Assembly this year.
In pandemic style, it’s being held virtually via Zoom.
Journalist and activist Angela Dennis and University of Tennessee sociologist and critical studies scholar Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin will talk about the Black in Appalachia podcast in a session for the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists on Feb. 2 at noon.
Registration details for the one-hour Zoom event are on the ETSPJ website. It will be livestreamed on the East Tennessee SPJ Facebook page as well with no pre-registration required.
Photo of people during the riot at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Photo by Reddit user TapTheForwardAssist, used via Creative Commons license.)
The FBI and District of Columbia police are searching for people involved in the violence at the Capitol on Wednesday — and they’re finding them and they are likely to find and arrest more.
There is gigabyte-upon-gigabyte of crowdsourced images, videos, social posts referenced on the DataHoarder subreddit from the terrifying rioting mob. And it’s growing.
Some of the source material has been disappearing since Wednesday as it dawns on participants that shooting video and photos of themselves and their friends committing crimes at the Capitol was not their most stellar decision.
Many of those moments are being saved before they can slip away in the ether and DataHoarders is where they are sharing their efforts.
Another group, Bellingcat.com, which describes itself as “an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation,” has a Google spreadsheet of video and images.
