Last Saturday over 1300 attendees showed up for the 4th annual Grassroots Media Conference, sponsored by the Grassroots Media Coalition and Paper Tiger Television. Panels, presentations, installations and films covered topics as wide-ranging as the genocide in Darfur, the NYC ghost bike project, police brutality, and hip hop activism (and plenty of it)… all with the common goal of using media as a tool for social justice.

As part of the all-day film festival, NYC-based Glass Bead Collective presented their short “50 Shots and a Mule – Part 1″, a documentary that covers the December 16th protests of the Sean Bell shooting. Part 2 - not shown on Sat. but also available at the site - was filmed at the following march on Wall St. on December 22nd and is shot in part with 360-degree cam that gives a full view of the police surveillance of protestors. GBC documents creative and political dissent, and includes members from backgrounds in video art, film, theater, architecture, photography, music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy.