GameJew is a gamer who wears a Super Mario costume and makes video reviews about games and posts them on Revver and YouTube. He also lives in MacArthur Park and found himself on the streets on May 1 during the infamous LAPD police riot. I linked to his video of that day on this post, "After clearing the park, LAPD kept shooting." The experience clearly affected him. GameJew has gotten into the movement. He posted a video defending immigrants' human rights in response to hateful messages posted on his site. Then he went and covered the police commission hearing on the LAPD's actions at the park. At last week's immigrant rights march do-over, GameJew was on the story again. His newest video contains interviews with organizers, kids, and marchers, and a dude in dreads who was interviewed in GameJew's May 1 video makes another cameo, once again offering some incisive insights. Can't find code to embed the clip on this post, but it is worth a look to see how one person chooses to document the social movement of our time.
* Art note from the video: GameJew also briefly interviews Salvadoran American artist Spartacous Cacao, who showed up at the march with a painting he made memorializing May 1, 2007. I saw it up front and it brough to mind Frank Romero's 1996 painting, "The Arrest of the Paleteros," which documents the heavyhanded LAPD crackdown on Mexican ice-pop men at Echo Park in that period. Romero's piece belongs to collector Cheech Marin.
** Another worthwhile note from last week's march: Najee Ali attended, along with Charlene Lovett, grieving mother of Cheryl Green, the 14-year-old black girl killed by Latino gangmembers in December.