Published Date 7/2/13 8:50 PM [embedded content]This is 3-4 video reports in one. I made them for FSTV a US satellite station and show the wide spectrum of demonstrating post Genoa. I think the is still one report missing will post it when I find it. My thinking then as now is to show the…
Video Faslane Peace Camp
Published Date 6/26/13 4:34 PM (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 rather…
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…
What works in Activist video
Published Date 5/22/13 8:17 PM Made 2 films with nearly a million views each on youtube, in both cases part of the reason they are “successful” is because people are hating on them. [embedded content] More than thirty climate activists and local residents took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain’s biggest ever…