Month: December 2010

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 legal observers, the violent arrest of women refusing to be searched, the aggressive interrogation of local residents, the threatening of journalists with arrest for doing their job, the confiscation of 100s of items such as childrens’ costumes and crayons, attempted dawn raids on the camp, the use of batons and CS gas against peaceful protesters, and the forced search of 1000s of people and the adding of their personal data to a secret database. This type of political policing has to stop, and the right to legitimate protest re-established. 

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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 like “anonymous” are the visible fire of a wider battle. The open internet is under sustained and systematic attack, and we can’t be sure that there are strong enough forces in the field to keep in place the “stupidly simple and open” standards that the the web/internet is built on. The danger is that a “peace settlement” over net neutrality will replace them with something “better” and it is in this that the danger lies.

As the battle lines are now clearly drawn, it’s time to rally the forces of openness to counter the forces of closure.

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 click remember login it stays logged in for a long time so you don’t have to keep putting in PW.

When you are logged in all you need to do is “submit video” at top of channel page with the video URL from youtube, or video file URL etc. Then its up to you if you wont to promote it to featured area if its very good.

Then we send out the link to the channel rather than the individual video – to promote the film as for alt-media flows are more important then individual videos http://visionon.tv/grassroots