Power politics is always full of stupidity, as priorities and agendas are pushed as power games rather than human needs. Power politics brings out the worst in human communities while pushing out, breaking and destroying the best. Any structure with a hierarchy will suffer from this. While most people agree that such structures are useful…
Should the state run #failbook
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-facebook-state-owned-social-media-bbc-iplayer-privacy-labour-public-ownership-a8504151.html A. Is this a good idea? Q. It is certainly a better idea. Whether or not it is the best possible is another question … A. We already have a healthy alt to the #dotcons growing. Do we need a state run one. This is a new look at a old debate between anarchist…
Serbian rainbow
When a rainbow gathering is “organized” rather than “foculised” you live through a more “dull” than “shiny” rainbow. The Serbian gathering is 600m up in wooded mountains so we have both sun and regular strong thunder storms with torrential rain. The kitchen was built before i came over a few dry days of flimsy plastic…
Serbian rainbow 2018
When a rainbow gathering is “organized” rather than “foculised” you live through a more “dull” than “shiny” rainbow. The gathering is 600m up in wooded mountains so we have both sun and regular strong thunder storms with torrential rain. The kitchen was built before i came over a few dry days of flimsy plastic sheets…
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens beyond the few seconds glimpsed on the mainstream TV news. We follow grandmothers (Lancashire Nanas) as they team up with younger activists…
Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media
Our current groups doing alt/grassroots media are too limited in their idea of what media could/should be in this the is either a naivety or a dishonesty. The most successful act and think they can be #traditionalmedia” without controlling the distribution of their content in any meaningful way. This is of course not unusual, the…
Since we left London
Since we left London that we have been roughly marking on a map our overnight stops. It’s not graphically amazing but does give an idea on how far we got! Since we left London we’ve done 2750km on European Inland Waterways to Vienna on 8 different rivers and 17 canals throughout 3 countries. We’ve passed…
Brainstorming London boater gentrification
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk
Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk I came away feeling like an alien with the chasm that divides my #openweb view from the Facebook generation that made up the panel and ordnance. Some thoughts: As the guy from demo’s said the are better #openweb projects in most areas. Though these options were only…
The OMN Its a network of flows
The Open Media Network (OMN)
“We can’t engage as communities, unless we have money. I can’t even express how angry this makes me.” – an activist group using Facebook. People and organizations who feel this way are the initial targets. https://activism.openworlds.info is an unfettered space for Activists and groups to communicate and https://campaign.openworlds.info a safe space for Campaigning and NGO…
visionOntv – A bit of history
Our main visionontv site (running for 10 years) has generated many millions of downloads and video views for other video account holders vie RSS, torrents, embeds and playlists. The early part of the project was based on RSS/peer2peer were its difficult to get hard figures. We can count the views on our secondary target the…