Street Team '08: CarlDBrown
 
 
 
   
 
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To create personal stories highlighting relevant social and political issues facing California residents.With a revolutionin video technology and an upsurge of web broadcast capabilities what was once only accessible by large media corporations is now available to small companies and individuals in all fields of art and enterprise. My  missionis to use these tools to highlight compelling stories that go untold by national media outlets.

 

 

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Check out this week's story:

Changing our Voting System One Question at a Time!

 

Check out my past stories:

Fighting to Save Southern California's Last Pristine Beach

Speak On It!

"Revolution" The Real Change

A California DNC Delegate AT-LARGE and Always On The Move

Hip Hop's Rising Stars from The Land Of Tupac

Richmond Fights Back with Solar

Ping Pong for Rwanda

Pride in San Francisco

Refugee Youth Using Pictures to Speak a Thousand Words

Teen Filmmakers talk about Teen Pregnancy

Street Side Productions

The Big Picture

Harvesting The Power of The Sun

Border Angels

City Year Los Angeles: Young People Serving Our Country

Surfrider & San Diego Coastkeeper: Keeping Southern California's Beaches Clean

San Francisco Olympic Torch Relay : A World Stage for Protest

Sprinter : Is Light Rail The Answer to California's Congested Freeways?

Voices of Change : Youth Making Media that Matters

Paying for College Bus Tour

Save Trestles

Literacy for Environmental Justice : Closing Urban State Parks

The Light Brown Apple Moth : Destructive Pest or Cash Cow

Power for the Powerless : California's New Immigrant Voice

Berkeley Stand Off : Marine Recruitment Center

Biodiesel, California Trend or Sustainable Solution?

New Progressive Coalition : Political Mutual Funds

Bringing the Noise with Dr. Martin Luther King

Green for All : Moving Oakland into the Green Economy

 
California : Where have we been?

 

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Beijing Torch Relay 2008

Bikes for Rwanda

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City of Santa Cruz

City Year Los Angeles

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Code Pink

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East Bay Asian Youth Center

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

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Gyuto Vajrayana Center

History Of Tibet

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Street Side Productions

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StopTheSpray.org

The Alliance for Climate Protection

The MYC

The Sallie Mae Fund

"The Strength Within Us All"

TILT

United Nations World Refugee Day

World Can't Wait

Youth Speaks

 

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Why Tuesday?

 

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Hello this is Carl Brown With MTV’s Street team ’08 today I am in Oakland California reporting live from my home studio. After 44 weeks of historic coverage MTV’s Street Team “08 has come to a end. All year each street team reporter has been producing written and video stories about social and political...

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Opponents of California Proposition...

I spoke with a couple of high school students making phone calls for Barack Obama and Joe Biden in downtown Oakland. I asked them what local propositions they were either for or against.

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Califronia Street Team Sign Off
Hello this is Carl Brown With MTV’s Street team ’08 today I am in Oakland California reporting live from my home studio. After 44 weeks of historic coverage MTV...
Tags: California   MTV   Street Team '08
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by  CarlDBrown on november 12, 2008
 
   
 
The League of Young Voters
On election day I spoke with Ana Jimenez, the regional director for The League of Young Voters. She explained how the League works hard to inform young voters about...
Tags: The League of Young Voters
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by  CarlDBrown on november 05, 2008
 
   
 
Teens Skip School to Make Calls for Obama
Oakland teenagers join hundreds of other volunteers calling voters in swing state to support the Obama/Biden ticket.
Tags: obama   teens   Oakland   Call Center
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by  CarlDBrown on november 04, 2008
 
   
 
Educated, Informed and To Young to Vote: What Teens think about Cal...
Educated, Informed and To Young to Vote: What Teens think about California's Propositions
Tags: California Propositions
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by  CarlDBrown on november 04, 2008
 
   
 
Polling Places Open In California
Thanks to an army of 100,000 poll workers, polling places are opening throughout California. We visited one polling places in West Oakland to see how it was going.
Tags: California   Election Day Coverage
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by  CarlDBrown on november 04, 2008
 
   
 
Elcection Day Coverage 2008!
Stay tuned all day as I and 50 other Street Teamers provide on the ground coverage of this historic election.
Tags: Election 2008   Opening
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by  CarlDBrown on november 04, 2008
 
   
 
Casting Your Vote In California
Like millions of other Californians I cast my cote on an absentee ballot. If you have not mailed in your ballot you can drop it off in any polling place in your...
Tags: Casting a Ballot
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by  CarlDBrown on november 04, 2008
 
   
 
The Polls: A Place for Democracy
With such a historic election upon us; young people are being told more than ever how important it is to vote... But just how does it all work? With over 800 polling...
Tags: election   California   volunteer   Oakland   Carl D. Brown   polling places...
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by  CarlDBrown on november 03, 2008
 
   
 
Changing our Voting System One Question at a Time!
Arguably one of the most effective new media political campaigns of the year Why Tuesday? uses video cameras to challenge elected officials and those running for...
Tags: election reform   California   Los Angeles   why tuesday   jacob soboroff   ...
Views 34
by  CarlDBrown on october 29, 2008
 
   
 
Fighting to Save Southern California's Last Pristine Beach
On March 14th of this year I posted a video titled " Save Trestles" profiling Marty Benson. A lawyer, Surfer and Activist fighting to hard to defeat a proposed...
Tags: California   pollution   surfrider   surfing   democracy   Street Team '08   ...
Views 93
by  CarlDBrown on october 20, 2008
 
   
 
Speak On It!
Both campaigns agree, the youth vote is a sought after commodity. However, youth are still seldom heard. That is why Joshua Fredenburg started his new media panel...
Tags: politics   youth   California   Forum   Carl D. Brown   Cable Access   Cal State...
Views 152
by  CarlDBrown on october 13, 2008
 
   
 
"Revolution" The Real Change
In an election year with both parties claiming to be the party of change it is hard to know what is real. There is a group of young people in Berkeley California...
Tags: communism   revolution books
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by  CarlDBrown on september 22, 2008
 
   
 
A California DNC Delegate AT-LARGE and Always on the MOVE!
This week I caught up with one of California's At Large Delegates for the DNC. Miasha Everhart is an Oakland native who stays on the move. She was Hilary Clinton...
Tags: politics   California   denver   dnc   Street Team '08   green for all   Oakland...
Views 147
by  CarlDBrown on august 22, 2008
 
   
 
Hip Hop's Rising Stars from the Land of Tupac
In San Rafael, not far from Marin City, where a young Tupac lived with his mother there is a new generation of MC's and producers practicing the craft and expressing...
Tags: youth   California   teens   MC   Street Team 08   Carl D Brown   producers   ...
Views 400
by  CarlDBrown on august 11, 2008
 
   
 
Richmond Fights Back with Solar
Richmond CA is home to one of the US' largest oil refineries. Originally built by Standard Oil in 1901, the plant has been owned by Chevron since 1984 when a merger...
Tags: global warming   California   poverty   violence   Energy   oil   Crime   racism...
Views 203
by  CarlDBrown on july 28, 2008
 
   
 
Ping Pong for Rwanda
"Think Globally, Act Locally" is a phrase that came about in the late sixties. Well in 2008 young coffee drinkers in San Francisco are doing just that to ensure...
Tags: California   global   Rwanda   local   coffee   Street Team 08   San Francisco...
Views 223
by  CarlDBrown on july 14, 2008
 
   
 
Pride in San Francisco
Home to one of the most vibrant and diverse ***** communities in the US, it is no surprise that San Francisco boasts one of the world's largest Gay Pride Parades...
Tags: youth   California   Gay   lesbian   San Francisco   Street Team 08'   Pride...
Views 240
by  CarlDBrown on july 08, 2008
 
   
 
Refugee Youth: Using Pictures To Speak A Thousand Words
The adage goes a picture speaks a thousand words. That may have been the idea behind the foundation of the AjA Project. In San Diego, The AjA Project runs Journey...
Tags: war   education   youth   California   human rights   MTV   Immigration   refugee...
Views 436
by  CarlDBrown on june 20, 2008
 
   
 
Teen Filmmakers talk about Teen Pregnancy
All this month I am highlighting young people that make media to educate their peers and parents. This week we are looking at TILT, Teen Pregnancy and St John...
Tags: video   film   education   California   condoms   health   sex   Media   teen...
Views 315
by  CarlDBrown on june 16, 2008
 
   
 
Street Side Productions
Since the beginning of 2008 California's governor has been cutting educational programs and services. Supposedly this is an attempt to close the state budget gap...
Tags: video   youth   documentary   California   violence   Street Team 08   Oakland...
Views 164
by  CarlDBrown on june 10, 2008
 
 
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Get the latest on local politics and the presidential elections from MTV's band of 51 state-based youth journalists.
Tags: elections   politics   primaries   campaign   Choose Or Lose   obama   Democrat...
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HIV in ENC (Eastern North Carolina)
People living in rural areas of the United States are at increasing risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. During 2001 the southern U.S. had the greatest number of people...
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by  Jayte06 on july 23, 2008
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MTV Tr3s Voces is an online community informing Latinos about opportunities in politics, education and immigration. From teaching US Hispanic teens how to pay for...
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MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogues
MySpace and MTV give the Presidential candidates one last chance to answer your questions live.
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Street Team X+Y
This is a PRIVATE group for the Choose or Lose Street Team '08 REPORTERS ONLY for behind-the-scenes strategizing. PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST MEMBERSHIP, we are all already...
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