Published Date 6/28/13 8:02 PM Sandals and a straw hat for a riot, the face covering is for the tear gas and the was lots of it. Memoires, the mic cover was made of a piece of cutup packaging material and the mic was lent to some one latter and there dog eat it. Soon…
Video Faslane Peace Camp
Published Date 6/26/13 4:34 PM [embedded content] (DRAFT) The finished film has no people in it and long shots of organising lists and the camp infrastructure rather than the issues and characters surrounding the campaigns. This might seem strange at first but its important to realise that films don’t show the world as it is…
Hard or Soft is the question
Published Date 6/22/13 6:03 PM The are two types of security in activism (DRAFT) The is the outline of what am talking about here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_security Hard security “hard security for traditional mechanisms like authentication and access control, and soft security for social control mechanisms.” Encryption and anonymity, hiding communication so that people can trust that there…
Activist media strategy is broken
Published Date 6/11/13 11:37 AM This is the state of the #stopG8 twitter account as the main convergence center is raided by hundreds of police: Using individual Facebook accounts – who sees the content they post is decided by the advertising driven algorithms of Facebook and everything they post is sent strait to the corporate…
StopG8 website Activist web organising tools are broken
Published Date 6/9/13 8:02 PM The web is fundamentally a peer to peer network, as are human relationships. Let’s look at a recent activist website built for the G8 protest in London https://network23.org/stopg8. It is a one way approach – a directing tool for a small minority of unknown and unknowable people to direct the…