Taking Solidarity Global: Making This Is Maria Go Viral Narco News
go to original August 2, 2012

Six weeks after graduating the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, Heather McCuen took the lessons and skills she learned to the 140 Conference in Montreal. There, she made her curriculum “go viral” by teaching the assembled how to promote online videos, using the NNTV “This Is Maria” video as the example.

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Heather McCuen is an independent writer, performer and producer. She is the author of Hope in Chaos, a play about her experiences as a civilian 1st Responder in Ground Zero immediately following September 11th. Hope in Chaos (www.hopeinchaos.com) received it's first production in Montreal in the fall of 2010, and premiered in New York at the Richmond Shepard Theater in the fall of 2011, under the direction of Broadways Holly-Anne Ruggiero.

She recently returned from the 2012 School for Authentic Journalism in Mexico where she studied Strategic Journalism and Civil Resistance, and where she helped cover the 1-year anniversary of Mexico's Movement for Peace With Justice and Dignity ( #MPJD ) - a citizen driven movement against the overwhelming violence created by the US-led War on Drugs. She is determined to push the boundaries of theatre and social media as a means of education, empowerment and global unity.

Watch the "This is Maria" video:

This Is Maria. She Will End the War on Drugs - Maria is a composite character based on many Mexican victims of the drug war - their words and actions - who together are organizing to end the war, including Javier Sicilia, Maria Herrera and Julian LeBaron. (I3IVIIVI)

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