LaManna is convinced that even the most grassroots videos can make hit songs.
Incredibly, none of Haiti's commercial TV stations have played the videos, or any Haiti Grassroots Watch videos.
Haiti Grassroots Watch's video (in two parts) has not "gone viral" or even garnered many viewers.
At the same time, we also learned about a New York-based organization, WITNESS, that helped grassroots groups use video to fight for their rights.
Madrigal is currently working part-time on "The Daily Show" while he co-stars on NBC's sitcom "About a Boy," hones his stand-up act and runs grassroots podcast and video network All Things Comedy along with Bill Burr.
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies – a collection of the Yale University Library – began in 1979 as a grassroots effort in New Haven to record on video the testimonies of survivors, witnesses, and bystanders.
On 18 April, Goldsmith had to defend himself against charges of tokenism after the release of a bizarre video by grassroots organisation Conservative Connect called Goldsmith Jette Ga! (He Will Win), with lyrics in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali.
Having spotted it, Mike Galsworthy, the co-founder of Scientists for EU, decided it could be useful for encouraging grassroots campaigning, and made several videos promoting it.
As one grassroots organizer put it in a video we created during the campaign: "It's the relationships we have with each other that give us strength".
Meanwhile, I'm told that the new funding will be used to focus primarily on the growth of global grassroots soccer, including pushing its recently launched video product Pitchero Play.
