Laying the groundwork for a future worth building

Published Date 1/2/12 9:34 PM 2001 – The G8 Summit in Genoa I arrived in Genoa a few days before the anti G8 demonstrations were due to start, to help set up the Indymedia centre. We travelled in a tiny camper van with my frend Marion from Munich. The border caused no problem – the…

Published Date 1/2/12 7:04 PM Thinking were we come from… mainstream bohiminasm, hippy drop-out culture, Greenham, CND, vagabond, labour party, student, squatting culture, protest camp culture, DIY community group organising, undercurrents, internet utopian’s, Anti-GM direct action, coupuratewatch, risingtide, indymedia, summit hoping, anti-war direct action, mainstream alt-tv, rescuing/ running a community centre, European social forum/SWP, visionontv,…

The green, world approach and local approach.     How this will work with broadband Internet TV   Profiling   In the mainstream the mantra of who, what, where is not new, though with interactive consumption it is taking on a new importance. Profiling is big on the NET, everyone is after personal information to…

Published Date 1/2/12 5:32 PM Hamish’s history of The European Newsreel The has been much talk about doing a European wide video newsreel for the last 10 years or so. Undercurrents, which grew out of the UK anti-roads movement, was in its latter additions an attempt at covering geographic wider story’s. However, it wasn’t till…

Published Date 1/2/12 5:07 PM Report on Islip Gathering June 14th to 17th 2002     Introduction The gathering in Islip attracted an impressive attendance of representatives from a variety of alternative media organisations and independent video activists. Some had travelled from as far afield as Croatia and Germany. Eric Galatas, from the US-based FreespeechTV…

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

Published Date 12/18/11 8:20 PM Have been looking through an old hardive with the though of updating the Greenham film and came across lots of old photos from the activist world through the 1990’s – they would make a good bases for a series of articles. To set the seance here are is the camera man. In…