Published Date 8/3/13 10:21 PM Buying the boat off Alan johnston was a good expirence, he was a big help with fixing the boat up to get past the BSS test. I ended up staying up on site for 4 days working on the boat. Will be converting this to a Solar powered and mobile Open Media Hub…
Boat solar power options
Trade union 2001 and undercover police
Boat s 12v and running all your gadgets
Filming Genoa 2001 G8 protest
Kicking apart the illusion that social media is a friend to radical voices
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…
Stopg8 and a media spun story of suicide
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…
How the internet works
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…