On-line, everyone can hear you. A new project called My California Story (MyCAStory.org) is helping Californians that will be hurt by the current California budget crisis tell their stories online so that others can share their challenges. Inspired by everything from YouTube to an old-fashioned soap box, the website serves as a place where the voices of all Californians are heard.
The MyCAStory.org site is a first of its kind in California and is part of the new wave of citizen journalism, utilizing new technologies such as Flip Video cameras, to tell powerful and deeply personal stories of how lives are being turned upside down by California's budget mess. These easy-to-use Flip Video cameras allow disenfranchised people from across California, who are constrained due to illness or mobility, to share their stories via the Internet.
