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Award winning Independent photojournalist Michael Nigro / Nigrotime was arrested in NYC June 22 covering the climate crisis action of #ExtinctionRebellion NYC Rebels repelled down from @Port Authority Bus Terminal, to demand the The New York Times #TellTheTruth about the #ClimateEmergency! #EarthtoMedia
After hours in jail, Michael's press pass, phone and camera equipment were held and no promise of getting them back. Sunday am, he was not able to follow the ICE deportation raids. We need journalists like Michael to give a voice to the voiceless.
Our first amendment rights are ALL violated when journalists are not able to do their job. Independent journalism is crucial since MSM is NOT covering issues of injustice including #ClimateCrisis, #Medicare4All #ElectionIntegrity #ImmigrationRights Media suppression is real. Police arresting journalists is a direct affront on democracy.
Please, if you are able, donate to Michael, as this is his livelihood. He has a family to support. Equipment is expensive.
Michael notes that his gear takes a huge beating. He has risked his livelihood and indeed his life by being on the front lines of issues of social justice. He was the first in line to be hit by the marauding car in Charlottesville, luckily only losing the camera hanging from his hip. Please help support!! Camera donations accepted too!
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From his Website:
https://michael71078.wixsite.com/nigrotime
About Michael Nigro
Michael Nigro is an award-winning filmmaker, six-time Emmy-nominated writer-director and multimedia journalist based in Brooklyn, New York.
His penchant for breaking news and social justice movements has put him at the forefront of some of the most crucial stories of our times including, Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, the 2016 presidential election, Charlottesville, covering the immigration crisis in Tijuana, Mexico for nearly a month and also the Yellow Vest Movement in France, to name a few.
Nigro is currently nominated for Best News Photo Essay by the Los Angeles Press Club (ceremony on June 30, 2019). His photography also shortlisted him for the British D&AD International Photography Award and he was a recipient of the Art & Activism Photography Prize by the Theo Westenberger Estates. He was also part of the Social Documentary Network's 2018 group show and 10th-anniversary celebration.
His work has been featured in The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, among others He is a frequent contributor for Truthdig and a former frontline correspondent for BuzzFeed News.
He is also in production on his next documentary about 29 maximum security inmates who penned a play under the tutelage of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
You can follow Michael on Instagram or on Twitter: @nigrotime
After hours in jail, Michael's press pass, phone and camera equipment were held and no promise of getting them back. Sunday am, he was not able to follow the ICE deportation raids. We need journalists like Michael to give a voice to the voiceless.
Our first amendment rights are ALL violated when journalists are not able to do their job. Independent journalism is crucial since MSM is NOT covering issues of injustice including #ClimateCrisis, #Medicare4All #ElectionIntegrity #ImmigrationRights Media suppression is real. Police arresting journalists is a direct affront on democracy.
Please, if you are able, donate to Michael, as this is his livelihood. He has a family to support. Equipment is expensive.
Michael notes that his gear takes a huge beating. He has risked his livelihood and indeed his life by being on the front lines of issues of social justice. He was the first in line to be hit by the marauding car in Charlottesville, luckily only losing the camera hanging from his hip. Please help support!! Camera donations accepted too!
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From his Website:
https://michael71078.wixsite.com/nigrotime
About Michael Nigro
Michael Nigro is an award-winning filmmaker, six-time Emmy-nominated writer-director and multimedia journalist based in Brooklyn, New York.
His penchant for breaking news and social justice movements has put him at the forefront of some of the most crucial stories of our times including, Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, the 2016 presidential election, Charlottesville, covering the immigration crisis in Tijuana, Mexico for nearly a month and also the Yellow Vest Movement in France, to name a few.
Nigro is currently nominated for Best News Photo Essay by the Los Angeles Press Club (ceremony on June 30, 2019). His photography also shortlisted him for the British D&AD International Photography Award and he was a recipient of the Art & Activism Photography Prize by the Theo Westenberger Estates. He was also part of the Social Documentary Network's 2018 group show and 10th-anniversary celebration.
His work has been featured in The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, among others He is a frequent contributor for Truthdig and a former frontline correspondent for BuzzFeed News.
He is also in production on his next documentary about 29 maximum security inmates who penned a play under the tutelage of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
You can follow Michael on Instagram or on Twitter: @nigrotime
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Kristin Marie
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Seville, OH
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