FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 29, 2009
Contact: Stephanie Perry
Communications Specialist/Website Editor
206-733-5932; stephaniep@wsba.org
TVW Will Air Student “Justice for All” Videos; WSBA Contest Deadline is June 15
(SEATTLE) — The Washington State Bar Association is partnering with TVW to promote the WSBA’s YouTube video contest, “Justice for All: A Northwest Perspective.”
Washington residents of all ages and filmmaking abilities are encouraged to enter the contest by creating a short video on the theme of “justice for all” and posting it on the YouTube website. Two prizes of $1,000 will be awarded, one for a video chosen by a panel of judges and the other for the video that receives the most hits on YouTube.
The best videos submitted by K–12 students will be featured TVW’s “Engaged: Students Becoming Citizens” program. “Engaged” was recently nominated for a 2009 Emmy® Award by the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. TVW, the state’s public affairs television network, is available to most cable television subscribers. The student videos will also appear on TVW’s new online site for educators, Teach With TVW (www.teachwithtvw.org).
The WSBA created the video contest to advance the public’s understanding of the rule of law and the justice system. All Washington residents are eligible to submit a video of up to three minutes by June 15. The contest rules are posted online at www.wsba.org/justiceforall.htm.
The panel of judges for the contest includes the Honorable Gerry Alexander, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court; Krist Novoselic, musician and media columnist; Barbara Serrano, managing editor of the Yakima Herald-Republic; and Elizabeth Shepherd, director of children’s programming at the Northwest Film Forum.
About the Washington State Bar Association
The WSBA is part of the judicial branch, exercising a governmental function authorized by the Washington State Supreme Court to license the state’s 32,700 lawyers. The WSBA both regulates lawyers under the authority of the Court and serves its members as a professional association – all without public funding. As a regulatory agency, the WSBA administers the bar admission process, including the bar exam; provides record-keeping and licensing functions; and administers the lawyer-discipline system. As a professional association, the WSBA provides continuing legal education for attorneys, in addition to numerous other educational and member-service activities.
The governance of the WSBA is vested in its Board of Governors. There are three governors from the seventh congressional district; one from each of the other eight districts; and three at-large, one of whom represents the Young Lawyers Division. The president is Mark A. Johnson, of Seattle. The president-elect is Salvador A. Mungia, of Tacoma, and the immediate past-president is Stanley A. Bastian, of Wenatchee. The Board meets regularly (every six weeks) at various locations around the state, and its meetings are open to the public. Much of the work of the Bar is carried out through its numerous standing committees, 27 sections, and a Young Lawyers Division with its many committees.
About TVW
TVW provides unedited gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Washington State Legislature, Supreme Court, executive branch, state boards and commissions, elections, and public policy events of statewide significance. While most of its programming is gavel-to-gavel, TVW produces a number of shows, including “Inside Olympia,” “The Impact,” “Legislative Week in Review,” “Engaged: Students Becoming Citizens,” and civics education videos. Cable television carries TVW for free, reaching 99% of the cable households in Washington. Viewers can also watch TVW programs on demand at tvw.org, which includes the largest archive of legislative streaming media in the world.
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