The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) organized a press conference on Thursday after Libertatea released the video with the intervention in the Colectiv fire. Arafat posted this during the night, several hours before Libertatea released the video. He claims he doesn't know anything about this video and that he never received a CV with the video as Libertatea wrote. Raed Arafat wrote on Facebook that he is the target of a denigration campaign by Libertatea and journalist Catalin Tolontan. The Control Body didn't see the video either.ĭSU head Raed Arafat harshly criticized the report at that time calling those who made it amateurs and asking them to rewrite it, according to Libertatea. The new Government's Control Body made a report on the Colectiv club intervention which pretty much reaches the same conclusion, namely that the intervention was poorly coordinated and the authorities improvised. The tragedy led to massive street protests and the fall of the Government led by Victor Ponta, which was replaced with a technocrat cabinet led by Dacian Ciolos. Hundreds of people were in the club that night, of whom 27 lost their lives in the fire and over 30 others died in the following weeks due to the burns or respiratory problems caused by the smoke. The Colectiv club in Bucharest burned down on October 30, 2015, during a concert by local rock band Goodbye to Gravity. The video shows mainly civilians helping the victims while policemen and firefighters seem overwhelmed by the situation. However, in the Colectiv fire case, the video of the intervention was only seen by a handful of higher-rank officers, who decided to hide it as it showed chaos, lack of organization and even lack of preoccupation for the victims, a totally different image than the official one presented by the head of the Emergency Situations Department (DSU) Raed Arafat on the night of the tragedy, the officer told Libertatea.ro. The department also uses the videos to analyze the interventions and find ways to improve them.
Major interventions are usually filmed and, when they are successful, short clippings are usually made public. The video was filmed by an under-officer from the department’s information unit, as is the procedure in such cases.
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A videotape archive of their work can be viewed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY, and another is available at the New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division. Selected clips from DIVA TV's ACT-UP films can be viewed on their website. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to protest Cardinal John O'Connor's response to AIDS.
In 1989, DIVA created three notable video productions: Target City Hall, about a 28 March 1989 ACT UP demonstration against New York City Mayor Ed Koch's inadequate response to the AIDS crisis, Pride on the 20th anniversary of the city's gay and lesbian pride movement, and Like A Prayer, five 7-minute perspectives on the ACT UP/ WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization) 10 December 1989 demonstration at St. Members of DIVA TV identified themselves as partisan activists who created media in the same way participants in the Indymedia movement would fifteen years later-or in the same way Third World Newsreel did in the 1960s using earlier 8-mm film technology.
DIVA TV was an affinity group with ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and it preserved many of ACT UP's demonstrations, civil disobedience actions and public reaction to the group from the streets of New York as the AIDS crisis unfolded there.
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