Disseminating audio and video from council meeting can open the process to many more residents than are able to spare the time in busy, hard-working lives to attend meetings in person.
They've produced a "No Wal-Mart in Chinatown" video, lobbied council members to override the mayor's efforts, and scheduled a large protest march for June 30 at a state park near Chinatown.
But the city of Inglewood responded in a novel and disturbing way: It sued Teixeira for copyright infringement because he used snippets of the city's official videos of council meetings to support his criticisms.
Videos of the council's television show "Co-op Roundtable" on Channel 57 are to be shown in two lounge areas.
When the BBC's pool of reporters start sending in their reports and video clips from council meetings, coroners' courts and so on, publishers will say thank you very much and seize on it as a justification to accelerate the reduction in their own journalistic staffs.
It broadcasts programming provided by the City of Norman, including video from city council meetings.
The North End Woodward Community Coalition presented nearly 1,300 signatures, as well as video testimony, to Council at a community event being held at Wayne Community College.
The mayor, who at one point in a video of the council meeting appears to be in tears, said she didn't think that the proclamation was controversial when a community member first submitted it for her approval.
Video provided by the council showed a truck racing down a road, white smoke pouring out of it as it came under heavy fire from peshmerga fighters.
Mr. Annan, who spoke to the council via video link from Geneva, told reporters there afterward that he was sending a team back to Damascus this weekend to resume discussions with the government on the proposals he had presented.
Nickolay Mladenov, head of the UN political mission in Iraq, briefed the council via video link, saying the northern offensive by jihadist rebels posed a threat to the country's sovereignty.
