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Published Date 2/23/15 3:24 PM The are a lot of “insane” people in activism and counter-culture, its what makes it exciting, dynamic and affective. However with everything its a question of balance, lets look at how a movement stagnates, fails or growes and blossems. A short off the top of head list NGO’ists push limited…

Published Date 1/24/15 7:42 AM Climate camp is a example of the transition from alternative media to social media. At the beginning of the Climate Change Movement Indymedia was declining. At the first two camps there was a healthy Indymedia centre providing internet, sustainable power and computers There’s always a stress between alternative media and…

Published Date 10/17/14 1:24 PM Was looking at this site/project http://occupydemocracy.org.uk here is a reaction: The tools we use for activism are dominated by top down vertical thinking – the horizontal tools are left at the bottom of the tool box when we reach for a digital front for our grassroots campaigning. Our organising mirrors…

Published Date 9/18/14 8:39 PM [embedded content] The last Newsreal produced by http://www.undercurrents.org ‘An antidote to everything that’s wrong with mainstream television news’George Monbiot ‘ sizzling with cheeky radicalismIt’s radical, it’s not for profit, and it’s damned good’New Internationalist Undercurrents News Network A compilation of cutting edge animations, documentaries, comedy, subverts and music videos from…

The documentary features interviews with the women who started Greenham, and with politicians, critics and other participants in the camp. Educative and inspirational, it examines the rationale behind, and the power of the movement, together with the creation of the sculpture as a tribute and a reminder. She came from the Welsh valleys in response…

Published Date 2/22/14 10:04 PM We need to get activist to actually use alternative net infrastructure. FAQ Q. Its to complex to use this geek software. A. So was Facebook when it started, almost nobody understood what twitter was for for ages – all new experiences are hard. Its actually ONLY a question of motivation…

Published Date 11/6/13 8:46 PM Organising on Facebook is suicide for the internet and the future of our society. We need to do different and we need to do this now, luckily this isn’t actuality a very hard thing to do. The most simple/basic thing to do is to have a organising website hosted on…

Published Date 10/27/13 12:34 PM A look at the parts that make it happen (DRAFT) Lets look at the groupings first that balance helping/hindering a campaign. These are of course B&W images to highlight issues, on the ground things are always complex with many overlaps. The “family” – what is most important to them is…

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…

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…