Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb

Published Date 9/10/13 8:34 PM This is a message from my mum who was an original Greenham women – she is wrighting in reaction to what she is hearing going on at Balcombe Community Protection Camp. “I was on the original women lead march from Cardiff to Greenham Common. 36 women and six men marched…

Published Date 9/10/13 4:49 PM Its interesting to be in the middle of camp life doing something that is core to the camp functioning. Am one of the crew responsible for the tech tent, we run a solar power set-up that charges the camp phones, runs the laptops and provides shaky internet for legal, media…

Published Date 9/6/13 8:05 AM While summer lasts we aspire to camp electrics being completely powered by solar power. Currently the kitchen, massage/meeting tent and the media/tech tent are working. We have LED lighting and can power 3 laptops and charge around 30-40 phones each day. Other structures have LED lighting running from fixed battery’s.…

Published Date 9/4/13 10:11 AM Currently we have half the solar panels we ordered working to power core camp phone, laptops and tech tent (250w) – with limited public phone charging. And a second 40w solar powered laptop, music and phone charging point in the large massage tent. In the kitchen we now have a…

Published Date 9/3/13 6:14 PM 3 videos of police snatch’s from Balcome Protection Camp this morning. Already there have been 4 arrests today. Action began with with Nicky, a local resident, locking herself on to the gate to prevent deliveries to the fracking site. Then they started on the people slowing the trucks. [embedded content]…

Published Date 9/2/13 10:27 PM I have been at Balcombe anti-fracking camp for two weeks now (DRAFT) Broken inverter box of shame We have come a long way in the tech tent in helping to change the mindset of the camp to be more environmental. The camp is moving more slowly towards being in tune…

Published Date 9/2/13 9:11 PM Today we had a classic bit of direct action, stop a work truck and lock your self to it which stopped lorry movement for the afternoon. Very affective illustration of what a tiny number of people can do. This will lead to much heaver policing as they will have to…

Published Date 8/26/13 9:02 PM Its been an interesting and educational experience working in the tech tent at the anti-fracking protest camp.  When I arived, in the first 3 days none of the solar panles were pluged into the batterys, they were just on dispaly.  I set out to build a working system from the…

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