Published Date 12/13/10 11:08 PM The recent police violences at the student demo’s is nothing new – rather a new group of people are experiencing systematic police abuses. This film is about what happened at the Kingsnoth Climatecamp 2008, at the big G20 demo after this they killed a man. The harassment and exclusion of…
The battle for the internet is switching from a cold war to a hot war
Published Date 12/12/10 12:41 AM The battle for the internet is switching from a cold war to a hot war, and the proxy battles over piracy have spilled into the open war over freedom of speech. The government/corporate extra-judicial attacks on the funding and domains of such groups as wikileaks and the counter-attacks of groups…
How to help with building a news Channal on visionOntv
Published Date 12/8/10 5:37 PM its interesting times… here are the editorial guidelines http://visionon.tv/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Editorial%20guidelines The channels have a separate login at the bottom of the channel page (to do with the software we use) you need to create an account there then send me the user name so can make you an admin. if you…
London Anarchist Book Fair Catholic Worker
Published Date 11/29/10 12:02 PM Are a community of the international radical Christian ‘Catholic Worker’ movement. The Catholic Worker is Catholic, ecumenical, pacifist, communitarian and anarchist in the spirit of gentle personalism. The London Catholic Worker was brought together by the action of the Jubilee Ploughshares in 2000. Those who came together had long sensed…
This video s distribution is damaged by the use of copyright corporate music
Please “just don’t do it” as the is lots of good copy-left music out there. As a result, your video has been blocked in these locations: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Indian Ocean…
visionOntv Channels guide
Published Date 11/19/10 12:42 PM Channels guide Main channels visionOntv’s 5 main channels are aggregators, which automatically post trusted feeds of quality films from around the world. We manually promote other good films as well. This means there are interesting new films to watch every day. We are in the process of adding new aggregator channels,…
End of the internet as a open platform comes much closer
Published Date 11/17/10 5:02 PM Communications Minister Ed Vaizey anoucment means that the end of the internet as a open-platform comes much closer http://bit.ly/cpDh2j can’t help feeling we are sleep walking into this. Though as the undead of the corporate media is riseng from its coffins – we are seeing the peasants with burning torches in…
ClimateCamp Media
Published Date 11/8/10 1:43 PM The Ratcliffe Swoop prosecutions caused a backlash against activist media that reverberated around the Edinburgh climate camp. We were not present at the Ratcliife Swoop, and played no part in the gathering of video there. When we saw footage posted of identifiable activists doing criminal damage, we were astonished, as…
The way forward some simple social technical solutions
Published Date 11/8/10 1:11 PM * Nurture basic journalism/story telling skills in alt-media to make better outreach media. LINK (offline sadly) * Linking is key, link to alternative resources where ever you can, the easiest way of competing with corporate news sources is by building a web of connecting linked alt-news sources. * Aggregation is…
Activist media and the Value of the URL link
Published Date 10/19/10 4:35 PM The currency of the web is the link, so by linking to something you are adding to its value. Regrettably, activists endemically link to corporate media and social networking sites thus adding value and power to these large multinational corporations they are in theory fighting against. As a recent example…