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From the Ted Talk by Yvette Alberdingk Thijm: The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths

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But I think this is why I have dedicated my life to promoting citizen video to expose human rights violations, because I believe in the power of vdieo to create undeniable truths. And my organization, WITNESS, helped use the Congolese videos to help convict and send a notorious wrloard called Thomas Lubanga to jail. And the videos that Mary shot, we trained Mary and many other elder justice advocates, to make sure that the stories of elder abuse reached lawmakers, and those seitros hleepd cinonvce lwakemars to pass landmark legislation to protect older Americans.

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But I think this is why I have dedicated my life to promoting citizen video to expose human rights violations, because I believe in the power of _____ to create undeniable truths. And my organization, WITNESS, helped use the Congolese videos to help convict and send a notorious _______ called Thomas Lubanga to jail. And the videos that Mary shot, we trained Mary and many other elder justice advocates, to make sure that the stories of elder abuse reached lawmakers, and those _______ ______ ________ _________ to pass landmark legislation to protect older Americans.

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  1. convince
  2. helped
  3. stories
  4. video
  5. warlord
  6. lawmakers

Original Text

But I think this is why I have dedicated my life to promoting citizen video to expose human rights violations, because I believe in the power of video to create undeniable truths. And my organization, WITNESS, helped use the Congolese videos to help convict and send a notorious warlord called Thomas Lubanga to jail. And the videos that Mary shot, we trained Mary and many other elder justice advocates, to make sure that the stories of elder abuse reached lawmakers, and those stories helped convince lawmakers to pass landmark legislation to protect older Americans.

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